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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 123–134.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Figure 2 Merely a Chimera no. 42 ; digital print, 4 × 6 in. ...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 158–164.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., the limbs—constitutes an impossibly lanky, yet ultimately elegant, chimera of us. Beyond a certain point, I tell myself, we were both blameless, that when the first fissures appeared, we had worked equally hard to heal them and, when things got much worse, to gather together the pieces of the world that had...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 5–19.
Published: 01 March 2015
... it. In a letter to his relatives in France, written a few months before the first of Haiti's slave insurrections, La Barre notes, reassuringly, “We have nothing to fear on the part of the Negroes; they are tranquil and obedient … . We sleep with doors and windows wide open. Freedom for Negroes is a chimera.” 11...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 151–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the necessary sustenance required to both undo the chimera affects of democracy and freedom and instead point us toward a new perspective, one in which grappling with black being might yet produce the routes, intellectual and otherwise, for a freedom yet to come. It is the BLM call that “we will be free...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., transgressing gender, if we read Robinson as speaker, claims their status as a lusty, demonic force, gendered as a woman with cloven hooves, waiting to seduce men. The chimera of the diablesse is raced and gendered and points to an admixture of animal and human that resists the binary of the human/animal divide...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 178–187.
Published: 01 November 2014
... that has long obsessed me, lies “personal identity”—that self that makes you who you are? Not concerned with the chimera of the “frontispiece,” the exterior shape or structure of an entity, he concluded that sameness of person is indifferent to sameness of body. It is thought that matters...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
... in Trinidad by levying a surtax on corporations and nationalizing the Bank of London and the Bank of Montreal. The expropriation of the Bank of Montreal yielded little more than the building and the manager’s house; the chimera of wealth was difficult to seize. Williams’s government helped establish two...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of these feminisms; rather, it aligns itself with the transnational Black feminisms of the larger Black diaspora. Afrofeminists voice their discontent with French republicanism and through their political movement fashion a form of Black belonging that underlines French universalism as a chimera. 23 Because...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2008
... of Kingston as a place produced by complex articula-
tions of the local and global conjunctures of colonialism, modernity and late modernity.2
The journalist Carmen Tipling describes it as “a chimera of irreconcilable differences”3 with
its dystopic realities of widespread urban poverty...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 77–92.
Published: 01 February 2008
... native non-white against the white enclave that happens to be
situated on Antigua. As part of his theory of nation, Renan writes: “The truth is that there is
no pure race and that to make politics depend upon ethnographic analysis is to surrender it
to a chimera.”32 But as we...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., appear bound with a “blind highfalutin enthusiasm” toward the “common paradox of modern nationalism” in which “nations self-consciously in search of their souls often try to model themselves after a chimera bred of past ‘great cultures.’” Perilously, Boorstin observed, patriots were rushing to “recreate...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2011
... transcending social history
reveals that that bridge is but a chimera. Like Wideman’s assumed Pan-African community,
the bridge he attempts to create between worlds remains imaginary (rather than concretely
imagined), unrealized. In this case, then, the travel narrative genre as a praxis...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 16–30.
Published: 01 November 2020
... classroom. Lured by the sound effects of these magical readings, fantasies, visions, and chimeras began to nest among us. They brought with them other seas and shores and a taste for living prey. They delivered auguries. They untangled portents”; “Our reading material talked about farms, geese, harvest...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2017
... games, Dragon Ball Z , and the movie Akira . 28 His work with Protoje and other revivalists began on sets for music videos, and he found among the young musicians an unflinching attention to the ills in Jamaican society. He also sees Rastafari and Japanese anime as a chimera, in their preoccupation...
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