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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 (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 226–236.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Noise ’s mention of “explosively popular Scottish dialect poetry” and see potential for further research on the topic (15). Edmondson focuses on the way national identity and language were collapsed within the anglophone Caribbean with particular focus on the Black Atlantic cultural traffic between...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 90–102.
Published: 01 July 2024
... culture, is the inferiorised language of performance.” 2 That is why she decide to “experiment with Jamaican as a language of academic discourse” (12). So, in the very middle of this book bigging up the Jamaican language, after she done analyze reggae and dancehall lyrics and dialect poetry and now...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in Barbadian dialect, as in the conversations between the boys, in
the discussions in the barbershop, in the shared intimacies of the women, and in the
convergence of dialect, poetry, and modernist interior monologue that comprises the
heightened oracular rendering of Pa’s dream.
Here in this fi rst...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 19–39.
Published: 01 June 2006
... together as equally necessary for
social change. The relationship between writing and action is dialectical; poetry is nourished
by action, as action takes its impetus from poetry. His hunger to change the world comes from
his knowledge of the injustice of starvation and poverty, a knowledge he...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
... repositioned Jamaican literary and cultural studies by recontextualizing the perennial concerns of language, culture, nation, and identity within a series of overlapping and multilayered dialectical relations with gender, the Black female body, and the play of erotic desire. Provocative, witty...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 17–34.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Creole coincides with the writer using Standard English. This means, as Maria Casas has pointed out, that Standard English itself is used as a dialect; 19 it also means that Creole is as poetic a language as English, an interpretation that can only be supported if the poem is read as poetry...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the illusion of their disparateness, evoking how that irreducible possibility provides a flow of intimacy between our parts. Dub poetry marks, to quote Clifton Joseph, “another chapter in a long succession of dynamic innovative forms which includes the griots of Africa, slave narratives, the dialect poetry...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Ben Etherington This essay revisits the early phases of the history of poetry written primarily in an anglophone Caribbean Creole by closely examining the circumstances in which the White Guyanese administrator Michael McTurk launched his Creole-speaking persona “Quow.” It focuses on an 1870 verse...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... freedom might mean today. Alagraa situates my essay in what Anthony Bogues, via Hill, and later David Scott have referred to as “dread history,” but I prefer to frame it in relation to what I describe in Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution as “dread dialectics...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 17–31.
Published: 01 November 2024
... response to Jean-Paul Sartre’s critique of Negritude, Frantz Fanon resolves, despite his ambivalence, to reconstruct it in a statement of defiance toward the White philosopher’s ultimately destructive analysis. Reacting to Sartre’s insistence that Negritude is merely a stage in a dialectical movement...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 86–98.
Published: 01 July 2012
... around her in her own time. It is notable that one of the few poems with significant depth of historical perspective is “Bans O Killing,” which argues that effort to resist Jamaican dialect as a language of expression must logically also compel us to remove from the anthologies the nonstandard poetry...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
... alternative practices of listening and soundmaking, they have marginalized black experience. Caribbean noise, formed out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, has been excluded from informing those alternative practices. The depths of sonic experience revealed by soundscapes of Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 218–227.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the dialectic in a movement “against the system.” His was a radical desire for the “flipping” of the dialectic so that black people might forge a revolutionary love: The running away from the identity of ourselves, the trying to seek to identify with the oppressor, with his symbols of beauty, his symbols...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): vii–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and alternatives reimagined.
Such a debate we would insist is not the prerogative of
any single genre, and therefore we invite fiction as well as
nonfiction, poetry, interviews, visual art, and reviews.
This issue of Small Axe is dedicated to the memory of Alton Ellis (1 September
1938–10 October 2008...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 138–150.
Published: 01 November 2013
... a variety of Williams's translations of Spanish-language poetry, highlighting his engagement with modern and contemporary Latin American poets from Pablo Neruda and Octavio Paz to Nicanor Parra and Silvina Ocampo to the Hispanic Caribbean poets I consider here. Also featured are various Spanish poets, from...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Tzarina T. Prater This essay contributes to ongoing debates about cultural and national identity and belonging in Jamaica by taking up the primary trope of the “shop” as the sole site of black and Chinese interaction. Through analyzing the fiction and poetry of Easton Lee, the essay considers how...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 128–141.
Published: 01 October 2008
...A. James Arnold In a no-holds-barred review of his participation in the ongoing interpretation of Aimé Césaire's poetry and its relationship to the changing face of identity politics in France, the French West Indies, and the United States, the author highlights some particularly significant...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 155–166.
Published: 01 November 2019
... intellectual from the previous avant-garde generation, the distinguished essayist Jorge Mañach, to bemoan some years later in the glossy mass-media politics-and-culture weekly Bohemia the illegibility of the new Cuban literature as best exemplified by the poetry of Lezama Lima. 2 To Mañach’s critique...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 September 2005
... include Le Crayon du bon Dieu n’a pas de gommee (1996), L’Autre
face de la merr (1998), and L’île du bout des rêvess (2003). Ces îles de plein sel et autres poèmes
(2000) is Dalembert’s most recent collection of poetry. He divides his time between
Rome and Paris.
Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti...
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