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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 62–76.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and understanding moments of crisis, this essay attempts to redress that oversight. Its discussion of three novels of the Jamaican 1970s by Perry Henzell, Lee R. Duffus, and Tony Sewell reveals how the novels’ imaginative reworkings of the 1970s in a counterfactual mode constitute ruminations on historiography...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2016
... political intractability—its ironization of social evolutionism, its allusions to insurrection, its emphasis on the counterfactual—and suggests that it offers a surprising view of dialect poetry, one that foregrounds the potentially radical mutations involved in the act of reading aloud. © Small Axe, Inc...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 98–110.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., a counterfactual based on the events and on the contents of a letter expressing Henry's personal appeal for support from Fidel Castro. For the contents of Henry's letter to Castro, see the Gleaner , 28 October 1960. For an insightful reprise of the Reynold Henry–led insurrection and a related counterfactual, see...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of Guyana, 1955, Book AA3/17. For interview, see Nalini Mohabir and Hyacinth Simpson, “Resurgent (Rise Again): The Last Repatriation of Indo-Caribbean Indentured Laborers,” Interventions 8, no. 3 (2006): 487–505. 21 David Gilbert and David Lambert, “Counterfactual Geographies: Worlds That Might...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2021
... on the counterfactual moments in these records and carefully explains the nuances of Hartman’s method. 13 Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts,” 12. 14 Ibid., 13 (emphasis mine). 15 Smallwood, “Politics of the Archive,” 120. 16 Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts,” 11. 17 I, of course, am...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 168–177.
Published: 01 March 2012
... anec-
dotal approach is supported by evidence of the wider economic, social, and political reality
of slavery’s penetration of British life that his examples illuminate. Slavery was clearly not the
only contributor to Britain’s wealth, but it was material, and counterfactual reasoning suggests...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 200–211.
Published: 01 March 2010
... of the Atlantic slave trade warranted.
We should not wallow in counterfactuals. It is hard work to figure out what might have
happened if the tape of history had run differently. Constant death made Jamaica what it
was. What I find interesting is how Brown’s choice of death...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
... as the sociopolitical processes of inclusion (unity) and exclusion (difference) in which nationalism depends, Matibag is able to confront the “spatial dimension” of how national identity is constructed within geopolitical and socioterritorial interaction with the other. 5 Beginning by posing a counterfactual...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... development’s stages of growth, with its counterfactual hints of Africa’s socioeconomic and sociocultural formations established before Europe’s colonial machinations—the “what could have been.” More specifically, the engagement was with validating and rationalizing the possibility of a peasant transition...
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