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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 179–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Paget Henry Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro-
Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics
Paget Henry
must begin by thanking Brian Meeks, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Patrick Goodin, and
Claudette Anderson for taking the time to put down so clearly...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to be overcome by conscious political struggle for change and a militant conception of identity resisting assimilation; Introduction à une poétique du divers (1996) and Traité du Tout-monde (1997), where créolisation produces relational identities formed out of contacts between cultures in a process...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 180–198.
Published: 01 March 2017
... accomplishments? One key predecessor, Kamau Brathwaite, suggested that the binarisms undergirding the principle of cultural distinctness on which much of the historical definition of the region was drawn be abandoned in favor of an increasing recognition of its intrinsic cultural heterogeneity. For many...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 71–92.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Philip Nanton Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Shake Keane’s “Nonsense”: An Alternative
Approach to Caribbean Folk Culture
Philip Nanton
WEEK FOUR
Kaiso Calypso
Mauby Maw-beer...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 18–34.
Published: 01 November 2014
...J. Brent Crosson While scholarly and popular attention has focused on both interethnic tensions and hyperdiverse mixtures in Trinidad, this article considers solidarities based neither on mixture nor on bounded, antagonistic cultures. These “altered solidarities” reflect the ways subaltern Indian...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Rose Réjouis This essay compares Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin to argue that the most creative way of engaging with an elusive mode of meaning within any cultural source is to provide a tertium quid , a new “supplementary legibility” present neither in the source culture nor in the target...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 29–49.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Aisha Khan In Atlantic world diaspora studies, culture and identity have been foundational concepts in analysis of the meaning and significance of diaspora. This essay argues that the centrality of these concepts is signal in reproducing a contradiction in diaspora theory that undermines its...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 159–171.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Tsitsi Ella Jaji This essay takes its cue from Louis Chude-Sokei’s The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics . Chude-Sokei’s specific Caribbean matrix of technologically oriented poetics of the human is extended to African and African American texts, illustrating how blackness...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 172–180.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Wayne Marshall This essay responds to Louis Chude-Sokei’s The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics by highlighting the book’s crucial musical threads in order to examine how it reorients specific histories of black music, offers new openings for musicology and sound studies, and makes...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Kim Robinson-Walcott True emancipation from mental slavery is still a work in progress in Jamaica. The People’s National Party swept into power in 1972 with an agenda of socioeconomic and cultural empowerment for the poor black majority. That agenda, however, was executed imperfectly. Considering...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 136–153.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Roshini Kempadoo Recent political agitations across countries, including those in Southern Europe, the Middle East, South America, and North and Middle Africa, are further problematized by the perceived failure of “state multiculturalism” in Europe. European citizens of different cultures...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 161–173.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Clashing Interpretations in
Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
In recent decades, dancehall music appears to have surpassed its predecessor, reggae, as
Jamaica’s major cultural export. In her recent collection...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 193–204.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Carolyn Cooper Small Axe Incorporated 2006 At the Crossroads—
Looking for Meaning in Jamaican
Dancehall Culture: A Reply
Carolyn Cooper
In the introduction to Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large I make my position
clear:
In the present study I document...
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in The Tambourine Army: Sonic Disruptions and the Politics of Respectability
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 4 Tambourine Army: Bun Out Rape Culture. Photograph by Shani Roper.
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
... brilliantly elucidates? Nettleford maintains that the dance was both a primary instrument of survival and cultural resistance: First, it [dance] is a skill that depends on the physical and mental capacities of the survivor. One’s body belongs only to oneself, despite the laws governing chattel slavery...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 23–38.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Shalini Puri Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Beyond Resistance: Notes Toward a
New Caribbean Cultural Studies
Shalini Puri
he noted anthropologist Peter Wilson, in his 1973 book Crab Antics,¹ observed in
Caribbean societies a fundamental and structuring tension between...
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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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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): viii–xiii.
Published: 01 September 2005
...: “For a Country Upright in Its Culture” (Pour un pays
debout dans sa culturee), an eloquent reiteration of the long-held aim of achieving national
elevation through and with culture. And yet, failure is imprinted in every period, every
movement in Haitian culture. From the Francophile mimicry...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 83–96.
Published: 01 July 2010
... beyond the limits of consensual meaning? Riffing on Omeros:
The Relevance of Isaac Julien
to Cultural Politics in the Caribbean
Jane Bryce
Filmmaker and video artist Isaac Julien’s artistic practice has always been inextricable from
its political context. In all his work to date, whether...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of Jamaican national becoming by insisting on the creative power of Jamaica's racial and cultural heterogeneity. On the one hand, the memoir honors domesticity as the necessary and valuable work of nurturing family and community while maintaining discreet lines of demarcation between the persona...
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