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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 52–72.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Jocelyn Fenton Stitt This essay argues that Jamaican-American Michelle Cliff's writing should be understood within a new interpretive framework which sees post-independence Caribbean literature as inheriting gendered and raced legacies of Romantic nationalism. While Cliff's early work shows...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 93–110.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of myself.
—Michelle Cliff , Th e Land of Look Behind
oing Home to Teach, Anthony Winkler’s autobiographical account of a year spent
in Jamaica, expresses the dilemma of a white Jamaican marginalized by the black
G majority because of skin color. Winkler’s account...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 80–96.
Published: 01 June 2006
... and peoples, Michelle Cliff s critique of the bond between tourist desire and scripted Jamaican history, and Edwidge Danticat s travel memoir highlight how these representations of travel and leisure define the Caribbean place as open for tourist self-imaging. Their writings expose tourist attitudes toward...
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in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 7 In this still from the 1972 film The Harder They Come , directed by Perry Henzell, the record label executive Hilton (Bob Charlton), right, talks with the sound engineer (uncredited) during the recording of Ivan’s (Jimmy Cliff) hit song. Courtesy of the estate of Perry Henzell
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 46–71.
Published: 01 March 2003
... world,” which necessitated that the fi lm be
“shot piecemeal, in fi ts and starts, with months intervening between shoots as additional
funds were scraped together Lloyd Bradley’s book Bass Culture: When Reggae Was
King (2000), however, quotes singer and actor Jimmy Cliff ’s references...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 39–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
... story at the
same time as I recognize many other stories told by immigrant writers from the Caribbean.
These are the same writers who, in one way or another, have also been speaking to Danticat’s
experience as an immigrant artist in the United States: Michelle Cliff, Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 90–102.
Published: 01 July 2024
... from Michelle Cliff. 4 But as you will see, I end up having to switch between academic English and Jamaican. I realize I would need an alter ego to write scholarship in my mother tongue because I wouldn’t really talk about scholarship in Patwa. 5 Once I start thinking in the mode of criticism, I...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Small Axe, Inc. 2017 archives Michelle Cliff Marlon James queer advocacy failed emergence Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination is a carefully argued and scrupulously researched study of the ways a range of desiring subjects defy...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2012
... who is repeated across many of Stoddart's works. Bertha is the white creole woman, misunderstood and abused. She is Bertha Antoinette Mason in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and the white cockroach of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea . She is Michelle Cliff's “Madwoman in the Back Room.” 9 She...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 111–119.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... Only the jaivas have your scuttle down and they would flee when we hung lanterns at the cliff's edge every moonless night. A traer las sardinas, whole shoals of them. Wilson and my grandfather hushing me cuando la linterna revelaba formas where the water roared up into sea. Bring...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 128–134.
Published: 01 July 2009
... is the image of Jimmy Cliff in
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“My Father’s Speeding Ticket,” 1989.
the movie poster from The Harder They Come, striking the pose with his guns. Where are
the sadly, or gladly, profound photographs...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93.
Published: 01 February 2006
... as to a veteran of the Boricua vaivén Popular
culture, as exemplifi ed in the song lyrics throughout this article, provides a medium for
imagining and coping with this perennial in between-ness.
As Cliff ord, Appadurai, Carnegie, and others have noted, movement, travel, and fl ux
among countries...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 159–166.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Place, Not Here (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996); Michelle Cliff, Abeng (Trumansburg, NY: Crossing, 1984), and No Telephone to Heaven (New York: Plume, 1996); Gary Victor, Masi (Montreal: Mémoire d’encrier, 2018). 7 Gosine defies the belief that “‘Third World rural people,’” like his...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 80–111.
Published: 01 June 2008
...
surrounding the Zong are the English painter William Turner, author and scholar Marina
Warner, poet and novelist Fred D’Aguiar, and novelist and essayist Michelle Cliff, not to
mention scholars Paul Gilroy and (more recently) Ian Baucom.1 The slave ship Zong, while
on a journey across the Atlantic...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 69–77.
Published: 01 March 2020
... empire of tourism. Michelle Cliff’s Abeng echoes Walcott’s formulation about federation as a tool of the imperial tourist market when her narrator explains that in 1958, the same year that inaugurated the West Indies Federation, the Daily Gleaner newspaper ran an editorial that proclaimed the mango...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Brand and Michelle Cliff, for instance” (103). King's book is particularly useful though in thinking through the public reception and positioning of James and his A Brief History of Seven Killings , published the same year as Island Bodies . 6 While there is much to be celebrated in the achievement...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
... considerations, undoubtedly contribute to the fact that there are relatively few texts available that highlight anyone Caribbean with unconventional genders, particularly those on the trans continuum who present masculinity. The recently deceased and greatly missed Michelle Cliff mentioned her own internalized...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 84–99.
Published: 01 September 2004
... culture blur artistic and national boundar-
ies and specifi cities. In this context, diaspora means that living or being part of a second
homeland has become a fundamental yet fl uid part of becoming a diasporic citizen.
James Cliff ord said of Aimé Césaire, “Perhaps there’s no return for anyone...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 41–59.
Published: 01 September 2001
... York: New American Library, 1981), to Valerie Wilson Wesley’s thriller Where Evil Sleeps (New York:
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1996). Writers who are connected by birth or residence to both spaces, such as Audre
Lorde, Michelle Cliff and Paule Marshall, explore the complicity of African Americans...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 95–106.
Published: 01 July 2009
... owned slaves? What about apparent whites such
as writer Michelle Cliff who self-identify as black? In-group differences matter, it seems, very
much; so much so that sometimes black is not black, and by extension, white is not white.
This is not a novel observation. After all, in the colonial...
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