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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
... having been stoned in a performance on the street. State reforms in cultural education were formulated by a committee struck through the office of the prime minister and led by Nettleford, and they were implemented in response to the demands of those largely outside colonial educational institutions. 23...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2019
... literature, postcolonial literature, and Caribbean studies, situating these shifts and movements within and against the backdrop of histories of decolonization. Birbalsingh’s early years in a plantation colony become prologue to his experience of education as a pathway to migration (a brain drain that still...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 177–193.
Published: 01 November 2023
... writing (1959–72) to explore how some key themes that are central to HEUA— especially his insights into colonialism, education, and underdevelopment—are also concerns that can be discerned in his earlier and temporally overlapping attempts to apprehend the Guyanese situation, efforts that offer crucial...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 87–99.
Published: 01 March 2023
... The erasure of the colonial past included the exclusion of the long history of Black anticolonial, anti-imperialist, and antifascist movements, including the work of De Kom, Louis Doedel, Otto and Hermina Huiswoud, and others from the Dutch collective memory and curricula of educational institutions...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 174–185.
Published: 01 July 2011
...,
He is one of the few West Indian poets who genuinely resembles Walcott’s Shabine, a sailor
with “a sound colonial education.” The voice was Roach’s own but substantially shaped by two
quite different influences: his immediate experience in Tobago and his assimilation of what...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 59–71.
Published: 01 November 2012
... from the colonial educational
syllabus, oral accounts of village elders, family gossip, and rumor. The historian / social
30 na Brodber,Er The Rainmaker’s Mistake (London: New Beacon, 2007), 132–33.
31 Brodber, Louisiana, 161.
32 Patricia Murray, “Birth Rites: Cross-Cultural...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of colonial education in producing the spiritual distortion of the educated elites, and argues, with Fanon and Cabral, that the uprising of the poorest and weakest can be the instrument of their dezombification, remaking their relationship to the time of self and home. What liberation becomes for Rodney...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 226–236.
Published: 01 November 2023
... education (as against Ngũgĩ’s objections to the deceit of colonial education). 14 Both the dominant language and Creoles are creative sources of “anguish” under such conditions, as Glissant argues, and as NourbeSe Philip confirms in her poem “Discourse on the Logic of Language.” 15 The ironic...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 179–183.
Published: 01 July 2010
... wanted to write the story of my family, I also have
always wanted to write a kind of history of Jamaica. When I received my share of the “sound
colonial education” at St. Hugh’s High School for Girls in Kingston, we were taught history—
exclusively British and European—from...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., despite their disparaging of their linguistic capacity, possess
in common with the other villagers. A e resources of the oral tradition weave a tapestry
of feelings and sensibilities that counter the anesthetic eff ects of colonial education. A e
possibilities of a radical break...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of structural changes that would end the economic super exploitation of the colonies for European benefit, as well as for American and Canadian commercial interests. Or as James put it, “As long as we are not being educated by the Colonial Office (or the stooges of financial interests), we shall be able to do...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
... 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 colonial education Yoruba language African slave indentured labor Kumina Black Power Eric Williams Kamau Brathwaite Paul Lovejoy Caribbean-oriented press Maureen Warner-Lewis, 1993, Lopez Photography, Kingston, Jamaica. Courtesy of Maureen Warner-Lewis...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 116–139.
Published: 01 March 2003
... And in line
with his progressivist stance, de Vastey was critical not only of women’s education under
slavery; he was also critical of colonial education in general. 1 is, he felt, was justifi ed
because women and girls educated under slavery and colonialism were socialized...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 82–105.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Civilization
George Lamming once said that “Shakespeare [was] the pinnacle of a colonial education
system that taught West Indians to denigrate, if not totally to deny, their place of birth.”
Everything that was read conveyed the idea that culture was something that came from...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Through sartorial style wars, Fraser dramatizes the farce of colonial educational leadership ill-suited to the needs of the local population, whereby after repeated attempts to resist colonial affectations, the protagonist succumbs to the internal disciplinary pressures of the local bourgeoisie to secure...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 112–132.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I’m nobody, or I’m a nation.⁵
1 is passage, early in the long poem, situates itself to conclude on the idea of nation,
but one should note how heavily invested the lines are in naming...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 16–30.
Published: 01 November 2020
... act of resistance to the symbolic violence of the colonial educational system. After they realize that the Maître can fall ill, they decide to use magical rituals to kill him. The children attempt to employ acts of quimbois as a tool against the material vehicles of colonial discourse. Moreover...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 135–156.
Published: 01 March 2009
... as a sign
of self-respect—with dresses pressed and hats at an angle in a “universally jaunty cocky”
style, in preparation for whatever was to happen next. These immigrants, coming from the
colonies, saw themselves as British citizens, and through education sometimes knew more...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Rose’s critique of what he calls “cultures of hiatus”—a condition of ahistoricality triggered, in his account, by colonial rule in the Caribbean. The belief—enshrined in the colonial education system—that it was British enlightenment that dismantled slavery in the Caribbean served to detach, for La Rose...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
... as Sparrow’s singing style in “Dan Is the Man in the Van” and “Ten to One Is Murder,” which reconfigure a contaminated language with exuberant inventions shared within a community. As noted by Brathwaite, the purpose of an English colonial education was to invalidate Caribbean experiences and historical...
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