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...Stephen Narain “Battie Boy,” set in 1950s Barbados, explores a young boy's decision to fight the taunts thrown at him by school-yard bullies. It traces his realization that, to truly come of age, he must find a space where he can think and grow on his own terms. © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011...

... on seeing the iridescent blue-black boy with wings. Like some, the visitor covered his mouth and ran down the hill, not really believing what he saw. Others sucked their teeth and cursed, annoyed that Ulysses and Stops would dress a small child as a bat and lock it in a latrine to fool people. Once...

...Barnor Hesse Nahum Chandler, in his remarkably evocative book X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought , works with the Derridean idea of the exorbitant to argue that W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking exceeds and transforms the terms of Western critical thought on modernity. Du Bois...

...Tzarina T. Prater The central protagonist of Patricia Powell's The Pagoda , Mr. Lowe, is a transgendered figure, a girl named Lau A-yin who is dressed as a boy by her father until she reaches adolescence, when he attempts to sell her into marriage to satisfy debts. She escapes by cutting her hair...

...Gabrielle Bellot © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 I The girl the three boys are watching emerge from the river casts a long shadow, noon or night. She has not seen them—and they know she has not seen them. She casts a shadow and a scent, a musk, a magnetism, and the boys who are watching her from...

... at the palms that waved the dead through, large branches forming a welcome canopy against the merciless sun, the trunks propping the living looking for their dead. He was sorry that he had met with the boy's mother, sorry that she'd shown him the picture of the boy. In the photograph, an even-featured boy...

... of the disenfranchisement of Jamaican ghetto youth. e fi lm, as is, conveys the rebelliousness and soulfulness of the Rastafarian and Rude Boy cultures that expressed themselves in Jamaican popular music. Neocolonial Jamai- can society in general, and the bourgeoisie, the predatory recording industry...

... Ouditt | 251 Port-of-Spain. It was a Roman Catholic School. All boys in St. James went to this school because their fathers, uncles, and elder brothers had also attended. This school building was a grey and cream two-story box with a hipped galvanized roof. There were no trees. The yard...

..., from forceripe chaps half his age. Nobody had to change the game on you to be a winner or a cheat, only the age of the players. Nuff money, boy. ) is month’s pay and part of next month’s, too, all gone to rass— Another gust of dust, ghostly, slapped him in the face. He recoiled in a fi t...

... in the shallows. His voice walking easy over the water and up theM beach to where Mr. Oswald, who own the boat, and Sunil, the other fella that fi sh with them, checking the lines to see that every thing ready for the next trip. Everybody in Victory Bay know that Michael could sing. 1 e boy have voice...

..., boy!” She carried it out of the ajoupa, and as she walked past, Jag gripped her dress. She turned to him and furrowed her brow as she tried to pull away from him. “How this nice thing end up here?” “It have nothing here!” Ajie kicked the bowls and crunched the deyas under her shoes. Jag...

... ideas, they would be well placed to do so. Her ideas open the possibilities of more sustained inquiry into men's and boys' lives using frameworks that avoid the heterosexism, heteronormativity, misogyny, and biological determinism of the crisis school that are part and parcel of their taken-for-granted...

... anti-Communist environment that affected both Otto and Hermie Huiswoud in tangible and lasting ways. After sketching the complicated trajectory of the Huiswouds, I finish with a series of encounters. The first set is between the Huiswouds and W. E. B. Du Bois, which went from adversarial to amicable...

... in Kingston, Jamaica, were a blur to us. We simply could not piece it together. We no longer knew the man lying in the bed upstairs. We were not sure whether he was different from the boy who lay handcuffed to the bed beside him, screaming about not doing anything wrong, that he had no choice but to run from...

... time, in this poem, “The Almond Trees,” we find him modifying his earlier view of history. What the boys are searching for, however unconsciously, is not just a history, but a concept of history that will help them to make sense of the world, of their lives, that will bring all aspects...

... to nothing about either his life or his work. How could that have happened? How could Abrahams’s global significance to the black world have simply escaped me? I’d of course read his 1946 novel, Mine Boy , when I was a student at the University of the West Indies, Mona, in the late 1970s. But like many...

..., and I see three boys walking along the side of the highway, the fi rst in what I call cowman boots, black rubber boots, like the ones I wore as a child so that I could pretend to be the man who took care of the cows opposite our fi rst house in the valley, the second boy taller, skinnier, in rubber...

... OH SHIT swooning her legs liquefying but he slides his fi ngers slowly out of her wiping them dry on her stomach and then he is spinning her around and when he tries to kiss her their lips less than half an inch apart all she can ask is lil boy and grasping one hand he leads her fi...