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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2011
... frustrates the possibilities of movement for the constituents of the larger community such urbane travelers represent. © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 Floating Islands: Spectatorship and the Body Politic in the Traveling Subjectivities of John Edgar Wideman and Edwidge Danticat Myriam J. A. Chancy...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
...” LGBT individuals present to the nation. Chin's identity as a woman of Chinese and African descent calls into question a unitary identity or origin story for Caribbean subjects and asks which bodies are allowed to be legitimate citizens of the postindependence Caribbean. Chin's personal experiences...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 October 2007
... on an understanding of the body as immutable and naturally marked by race. Depicting skin bleaching as pathological attempts to recenter hegemonic conceptions of blackness and to discipline bodies so that they adhere to them. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 The Fact of Blackness? The Bleached Body...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 142–162.
Published: 01 June 2007
... prestige for themselves in the face of an ever-effacing violence. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 “No Grave Cannot Hold My Body Down”: Rituals of Death and Burial in Postcolonial Jamaica Annie Paul Ab s t r a c t : In contemporary Jamaica, funerals increasingly revolve around fantasy...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the creative labor of this artistic project (the ways dub poets link sound to body to place to textuality) and helps us consider the conditions under which something new in black modernity is produced. Through this reconceptualization of the art form, the essay draws attention to ways dub extends Paul Gilroy's...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
... 21, nos. 2–3 (2015): 215–18. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Race humanism black radicalism anticolonialism blackness sociality I shall command the islands to be. —Aimé Césaire, “Lost Body” We groped for coherence and failed. —Sylvia Wynter, “Creole Criticism: A Critique” In his...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2022
... a recuperation of a poetics between Ríos and Philip enhance a study of the body? Through a close reading of two poems, it points to instances of absence and disappearance as generative signals that enable these women to transgress the silences that structure imaginative and lived experiences. In doing so...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2024
... controversial conversations on topics related to Black popular culture in the French Caribbean. In Lyrics and Chill , one of his web series, Specta and his cohosts discuss Bamby’s style of s’habiller sexy en body string (dressing sexy in a body string) and the representation of women in the media. He asks...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
... their own children together by themselves during the nurses’ strike, Didi holds out the body of her child to the audience and speaks directly to them: “Is like all di experience dat me pass through, is dem bring mi come. Is dem is mi madda. Now my child is born, Him come off a my navel string but him...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Faith Smith This essay responds to Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014) by noting the convergence of progressive legislation and violence that renders notions of transgression and freedom contradictory and fraught in our contemporary moment...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Lisa Outar This essay offers a critical engagement with Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014), arguing that King enacts a ground-shifting interdisciplinary and translinguistic approach to the study of Caribbean sexualities and gender...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the female body. Through their imagery, the body serves as a sign for presence and invisibility, for fearlessness and fragility. The permanence of the body's surface becomes a kind of visible text that both artists develop through their narratives. By examining specific series of works by each artists, one...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Susan Mains Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Monumentally Caribbean: Borders, Bodies, and Redemptive City Spaces Susan Mains Notwithstanding that radio, television and newspapers widely serve the island, we may not deceive ourselves to think that very great numbers of Jamaicans...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 182–192.
Published: 01 November 2013
... an urgent project. In Peasants and Capital (1988) he examines three units—the village, the world, and the nation—that offer us one way to connect these people and places to global concerns. This essay suggests that Trouillot's intervention might be productively extended if we take seriously the body and its...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 191–201.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Julian Henriques This essay takes off from Tavia Nyong'o's “Afro-philo-sonic Fictions” to make a journey into the embodiment of sounding through the dread body. It starts with Prince Buster's Judge Dread persona and Rastafarianism rather than the sonic bodies of the bashment gal in the setting...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 29–49.
Published: 01 November 2015
... studies and their relationship to this contradiction, compares the deployment of culture and identity in Afro and Indo/Asian diaspora studies, and suggests that looking at the differences and compatibilities between material bodies (diasporic humans and their made objects) and immaterial bodies (diasporic...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in the hataclaps (earthquake) cartoon. Vybz Kartel, known for deploying skin bleaching, tattoos, and other forms of bodily transformation as economic capital, is represented in this cartoon in a feminized costume that aligns him with the stereotypical gay body—in this instance, a browning. 34 “Browning” takes...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
... between the United States and Haiti and black and white bodies, the film engages with the limits of transracial, heterosexual romance in sex tourism. The impossibility of romance shows that for Haitian citizens, nationalist redemption lies in politics not in transracial intimacies. However, politics...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
...,” and “the transnational” as distinct historical phases in a teleologic progression, and exposes the polarization of history and memory, archive and body, that increasingly undergirds diaspora studies' memory-work. Although the concept of “diasporic memory” has scholarly traction, it also places enormous pressure...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2023
... reveals the fundamental dualism between legal subjects and rightless bodies in the Dutch colonial context and how European law and the rights of citizens enabled the maximum exploitation of colonized and enslaved bodies. Contrary to universalist-inclusive and progressive notions of legal citizenship...