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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., the owners of the yard. Mrs. Rouse responds to Benoit’s infidelity by remarking, “My blood and coolie blood don’t take.” They fight over ownership of No. 2 Minty Alley, but when Benoit dies, Mrs. Rouse buries him at the yard. Minty Alley portrays a barrack yard politics made through the combined—if tense...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 140–150.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of the 2010 earthquake “occupies the center of the work” is thrown into question when her work is juxtaposed with literary narratives that feature Haitian girl protagonists, such as Evelyne Trouillot’s The Infamous Rosalie and Laura Wagner’s Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go. These narratives by Trouillot and Wagner...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 105–120.
Published: 01 February 2008
... shine my boots each day. The sun is in my boots and in the
water.
No one could say this ain’t happenin. Is broad daylight; everyone can see this happenin.
Not a dream; not.
I in the air now and there ain’t no sound. I don’t even smell the sea. It is make me sick...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 57–62.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Juan for new clothes. It’s his duty. Men don’t know their heads from their feet. Demand. Demand. Demand, she said. At a stoplight he caresses my cheek. I try not to cringe. I don’t want to disrespect. His hand drops on my lap, a dead rat. You’re too skinny, he says. That’s got to change. He...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 170–177.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., sometimes is only a long stick with a hook at the end. We used to wonder how come police don't ever stop Ghost to ask why he breaking the law walking around the place with bare sharp tools when honest gardeners wrap up they cutlass and thing in gazette paper to keep within the law. But is when you look...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 79–163.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., there has
to be a distinction between what I came to analyze afterward outside of them (I’m trying to
remember and put that into context), and what I was hearing inside of my family. Because
I really don’t remember hearing that sense from them [that Marryshow’s time had passed...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 89–99.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and again, cases like this one. We been making our way through these villages for days, asking the same questions. Seen this sign before? Hear anything about animal activists gone rogue? The questions are the same but the answers, they change more than you’d think. These crusty-eyed villagers don’t...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 145–149.
Published: 01 October 2006
... on
the phone, like you promise.
Parang singing all over the island, Arima, Tabaquite, Lopinot hot with tempo, but the cuatro
strum don’t have the same sweetness because you not here to move with me, your whole mind
and soul slip down in your body, and is just we out there on the floor—nobody else...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 72–200.
Published: 01 September 2002
... could. But no explanation was given. . is was about eight, eight-thirty
in the morning. And we just went back. And on the way back, along what was called
Roebuck Street, people were closing the doors of shops everywhere. Suddenly! We don’t
know what this is about, but there is some kind...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 123–134.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., really hate it and just refuse to even look at the film. Once that word comes out, they just completely shut down. Even to bring up another, Gaiutra Bahadur's book Coolie Woman , there are some people who just absolutely won't open that book because of that word on that cover. And I don't know, like, I...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 123–217.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., there would be families of
diff erent races. And certainly via secondary school, but also via my parents, my friends
were from various races. And then you turn, I don’t know, maybe twelve, thirteen, and
this begins to be a problem. Th e fi rst time I remember really noticing it very vividly...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 2007
...-land up there.
Today, when I tell my mother that the coconut tree had moved on the morning after Janet,
and ask her if she remembers that, she laughs a little half don’t-quite-believe-but-can’t-be-sure
laugh and says, Well, it couldn’t move, and then she adds, Perhaps, and then she shrugs...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 September 2001
... so for reasons which are
far more profound than their knowledge or acquaintance with African history. So that’s
another reason why we don’t need to address ourselves to them.
* e second rule is that African history must be seen as very intimately linked to
the contemporary struggle...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 97–246.
Published: 01 June 2006
... at Bunkers Hill?
RN: No, I spent a year at Montego Bay Boys School first. I remember going to join my mother in
Montego Bay. She was half expecting me—let me put it that way. I prefer to put it that way, and
I don’t want to be dramatic about it. I didn’t run away from anything...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 140–157.
Published: 01 March 2003
... “Don’t laugh: just look at the color of my skin! Look at the kink in my hair!”
aaxexe
I laughed anyhow, we both laughed. He reached across the table and touched my
hand.
Once I had met Arjun, leaving Daryl, the Trinidadian, was easy. We parted like a loose
connection...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 136–145.
Published: 01 July 2023
... in international dialogues and international recognition. A sser : I hear it, Maroon —I hear about that word [. . .], but I don’t know what that word is, and I don’t know what to make of it. Sometimes I hear the people that go to school, I hear some of them say that it’s not a good thing, they shouldn’t call...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 189–201.
Published: 01 September 2005
... de Joux in the Jura mountains in France, where he died in 1803. 193
mentioned—as a child. Th e poetic aspect was not of course intentional; I don’t think
that people knew that in creating history they were leaving words for us that would be
recited for the rest of our lives...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 162–169.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Chenee Daley © Chenee Daley 2017 Sometime me like come sit down in the uptown cafe and read stush novel and pretend me deh foreign, like is New York dis and Forte Greene round the corner, but me know the lady beside me don't even have a visa. White man she come in here...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 152–155.
Published: 01 February 2007
... look good!”
small axe 22 • February 2007 • p 152–155 • ISSN 0799-0537
SX22 • February 2007 • Shirley Brathwaite | 153
Trina began to scream. When she heard the echoes of her scream, she stopped.
“Don’t blame us if the elevator ain’t working...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 77–90.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in
white robes stretch out a long golden rod and touch her tongue.
Since then every time you look sharp is like prophecy dropping from the sky free-
sheet, and bad spirit following everybody. 1 en Pastor, who don’t like to cross a soul and
believe that everybody have to make their journey, decide...
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