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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 112–140.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Michael De Gale Small Axe Incorporated 2007 City on the Hill
Michael De Gale
Editor’s Note: Michael DeGale died suddenly on 26 January 2006. When we had met some
months before this he had tentatively agreed to give Small Axe one of his plays for this issue.
I am grateful to his...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in 1971 on a City of Nairobi Scholarship as a first diaspora visitor, in a resounding signal that England’s literary centrality was being displaced. One day, he was taken to a gathering in Ngũgĩ’s village of Limuru, where he found himself in a ceremony in which Ngũgĩ’s mother welcomed home the “prodigal...
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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 (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2011
... locates its richest hope and promise, its utopian turn, offering a paradoxical (or, perhaps, dialectical) redefinition of the terms of both literary endeavor and political practice. © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 Conquering City: The Poetics
of Possibility in Texaco
Sarah L. Lincoln
I, too, have...
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Published: 01 March 2013
Figure 1. “Marcus Garvey, New York City,” 1922 (photographer unknown). © Corbis
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in Skirts Rolled Up: The Gendered Terrain of Politics in Nineteenth-Century Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 1 In an advertisement typical of a capital-city-woman business owner, Madame Widow Reil, “so well known to the Port-au-Prince public,” promotes her fine pastries. Le Ralliement , 7 September 1895, 4
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Charles V. Carnegie In the late 1950s, a new business center was created in Jamaica's capital city, hastening the decline of its old downtown and coinciding with the emergence of elite suburbs. This essay explores the social significance of the development of this “New Kingston,” treating...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 178–185.
Published: 01 November 2021
... understandings of the city-as-crisis, asking how the “where” of crisis connects to a geographical imagination that sites Caribbean cultural authenticity in the countryside. Next, it reflects on the temporalities of crisis, in relation to Beckett’s conceptualization of crisis as a chronic condition...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... epistemological status as the Garifuna homeland associated with ancestral marronage. The author looks at how public performances of Garifuna Settlement Day in Central America and the United States (New York City is home to the largest Garifuna communities outside Central America’s Caribbean coasts) open...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 1–23.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Jennifer Baez When Christopher Columbus’s human remains were discovered in a lead box inside Santo Domingo’s Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in 1877, Santo Domingo City Hall proposed commissioning a statue and a mausoleum. The Columbus statue featured an india , or a Native woman...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of flourishing “in spite of all.” In a succession of accidental encounters, the author claims, passersby find in the public city competing ideas about how to negotiate unlivable circumstances through moral character, the building of community, or revolution. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Small...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of life in a racially divided African colonial city, offering a precursor to Frantz Fanon’s portrayal of the settler town and the colonized town in The Wretched of the Earth . [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Haitian anthropologist La Voix des Femmes Léopoldville “Zone...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
Published: 01 March 2015
... as a conceptual frame in Caribbean theory and literature. This essay pushes for a New World African diasporic rethinking of Cape Town as an alternative city-space within such imaginaries—alternative to that for which Harlem has become metonymic: the New Negro and the Renaissance in black literary and cultural...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Nalini Mohabir A newly installed plaque at the port of Kolkata stands as a memorial to the indentured Indian diaspora. It conveys a collective story relevant to present desires, not past hauntings. Yet it is the tension of absences and silences that makes the port city an interesting site...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Sharina Maillo-Pozo This essay examines Raquel Cepeda’s memoire, Bird of Paradise. How I Became Latina , through the intersections between Dominican latinidad , gender, race, and hip-hop. By exposing other discourses of latinidad as performed and imagined in New York City by an afrodominicana...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 22–43.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Chelsey L. Kivland Since 2010, “Jerry” has become Haiti's most prominent graffiti artist. Dealing with the most sensitive issues of the day—disaster, insecurity, illiteracy, aid dependency, corruption, and poverty—he has canvassed Port-au-Prince and other cities with murals that invite compassion...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 61–83.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Figure 1 In an advertisement typical of a capital-city-woman business owner, Madame Widow Reil, “so well known to the Port-au-Prince public,” promotes her fine pastries. Le Ralliement , 7 September 1895, 4 ...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 1. Map of Kingston, showing the location of New Kingston and other centers of power in the city. The map was prepared by Shauna'h Fuegen.
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in Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 7 José María Obregón, The Discovery of Pulque , 1869; oil on canvas. Museo Nacional de Arte / INBAL, Mexico City
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in Forêts del Sur and the Pretexts of Glissant's Tout-Monde
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2015
Figure 7. Wifredo Lam, The Jungle , 1942–43. Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 94 × 89 in. Museum of Modern Art, New York City. © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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