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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2020
...David Scott Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 In a number of discursive spaces, but perhaps most especially in artworld discourse, the idea of the “contemporary” (as the reflexive name for a state of time or a state of being ) has gained considerable traction. 1 Beyond...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson This article focuses on the visual arts in contemporary Haiti, providing a rare insight into the current creative context. Countering a customary focus on history painting and Vodou-inspired or magical realist work, it explores the evolution of artistic production over...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2004
...D. Alissa Trotz Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Between Despair and Hope:
Women and Violence in
Contemporary Guyana
D. Alissa Trotz
INTRODUCTION
he immediate aftermath of the 1997 and 2001 elections in Guyana was marked by
violence, most of which targeted members...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 8–26.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., the trope of the isle, visuality, and creolization—and investigating the ways these four approaches to the Caribbean are articulated to each other clarifies some of the issues at stake in defining Caribbean studies as a contemporary epistemological field. In contrast, the essay poses alternatives: maritime...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 115–129.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of contemporary cisgender and transgender performers and activists such as Sylvia Rivera, Nina Flowers, Freddie Mercado, Javier Cardona, Jorge Merced, Erika Lopez, Holly Woodlawn, Monica Beverly Hillz, Lady Catiria, and Barbra Herr; on television programs such as RuPaul’s Drag Race ; on films such as Paris...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2020
... an organization called the Contemporary Jamaican Artists Association in order to give coherence and direction to their effort to build an institutional space for the exhibition, reception, sale, and discussion of modern Jamaican art. But why “contemporary”? What exactly did they mean to evoke or summon up...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 212–218.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Verene A. Shepherd In this essay, Shepherd explores what she terms the “`call to action'/ politics of death dimension” of Vincent Brown's The Reaper's Garden. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 From “Numbered Notations”
to Named Ancestors: Finding
Contemporary Meaning in Vincent
Brown’s The Reaper’s...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 80–99.
Published: 01 November 2016
... through the trope of the archipelago, challenging the understanding of the Caribbean as discontinuous, isolated, hermetic, and beyond comprehension. Analyzing contemporary art of the hispanophone islands and their diasporas, they reveal shared concerns within the Caribbean archipelago and posit...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 164–174.
Published: 01 July 2016
... discusses how ethical relations as shaped by race, class, and gender are relevant to Caribbean revolution, arguing that collapse might be the most significant reality that gives reason to hope for revolution and respect for the human in the contemporary Caribbean. 7 See Brian Meeks, Envisioning...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 80–96.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Angeletta KM Gourdine Small Axe Incorporated 2006 small axe 20 June 2006 p 80 96 ISSN 0799-0537 Caribbean Tabula Rasa: Textual Touristing as Carnival in Contemporary Caribbean Women s Writing Angeletta KM Gourdine Oh, by now you are tired . . . you want to reach your destination your...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 156–163.
Published: 01 February 2007
... in Contemporary
Historiography
Ron Sookram
Historical writings on Grenada have so far concentrated mainly on the 1979–1983 revolution.
Other areas of research and writing include: Grenada’s constitutional history, emigration and
migration, religion and culture (though with an Afrocentric slant...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 October 2007
... in
Contemporary Jamaica
Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Ab s t r a c t : This essay examines public discussions around skin bleaching in Jamaica and demon
strates that a discourse of pathology is a dominant frame of meaning used to explain this
practice. I argue that the practice...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 119–137.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Krista A. Thompson Some critics contend that the visual language of abstraction or conceptual art cannot translate “Caribbeanness.” This essay considers the work of several contemporary Caribbean artists who highlight how the “picturesque” paintings so favored by detractors were historically...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 112–118.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Joscelyn Gardner Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Subverting Colonial Portraiture:
A Contemporary Memorial to the
Women of Egypt Estate
Joscelyn Gardner
Pointing to omissions in the history of colonial representation, Creole Portraits II (2007),
commissioned for the Brooklyn Museum’s...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 105–114.
Published: 01 November 2009
..., and propose a reading of the slave societies of the Caribbean. Does the unity of Caribbean art not reside in its critical function, in this contemporary look towards a shared memory that until now has been lost, hidden, denied, and unacknowledged? Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Memory and the
Contemporary...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 180–198.
Published: 01 March 2017
... on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), 54–55. 37 Richard D. E. Burton, “‘Ki moun nou ye?’ The Idea of Difference in Contemporary French West Indian Thought,” New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 67, nos. 1–2 (1993...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 93–110.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Kim Robinson-Walcott Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Claiming an Identity We Thought They
Despised: Contemporary White West Indian
Writers and Their Negotiation of Race
Kim Robinson-Walcott
It is not a question of relinquishing privilege. It is a question of grasping more...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Marsha Pearce Using the lens of relationality as posited in Stuart Hall's idea of identity and Terry Smith's notion of the contemporary, this essay analyzes the work of Jamaican contemporary artist Olivia McGilchrist, who, upon her return to the Caribbean after decades of living and studying...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in Santo Domingo. 6 Paiewonsky and Ramírez, along with Jorge Piñeda, Tony Capellán, and Pascal Meccariello, formed Quintapata, a Dominican contemporary artist association, in 2008. Their artwork challenges the perception of the region's art as naïve and exotic and was exhibited in international...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 84–99.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Jerry Philogene Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Visual Narratives of Cultural Memory and
Diasporic Identities: Two Contemporary
Haitian American Artists
Jerry Philogene
n examination of cultural production is useful to the understanding of the experi-
ences of diaspora...
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