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...Nadi Edwards This reading of Edward Baugh's seminal 1977 essay highlights its contextual affiliations and affinities and its relation to an anglophone Caribbean critical discourse on the representation and significance of history. Nadi Edwards delineates the intellectual genealogy of the concept...

...Michael Hanchard Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Translation, Political Community, and Black Internationalism: Some Comments on Brent Hayes Edwards’s The Practice of Diaspora Michael Hanchard rent Edwards’s Th e Practice of Diaspora is an important text, expanding and com...

...Nadi Edwards This essay reads Kamau Brathwaite’s seminal 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” in terms of its rhetorical politics. Conceptually, the essay’s hybrid and heterogeneous discourses and registers are theorized in terms drawn from Clifford Geertz, Leah Rosenberg, and Mandy...

...Nadi Edwards This essay examines Carolyn Cooper’s intellectual project as a practice of noisy disturbance that anchors her conceptualization of Jamaican literary and cultural discourses within the concrete materiality and exteriority of the island’s historical, cultural, socioeconomic...

...Nadi Edwards Small Axe Incorporated 2002 George Lamming’s Literary Nationalism: Language between The Tempest and the Tonelle Nadi Edwards o change your language you must change your life,” Derek Walcott writes, sum- ming up, with epigrammatic precision, the perennial...

...Nadi Edwards Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Diaspora, Difference, and Black Internationalisms Nadi Edwards rent Hayes Edwards’s Th e Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism is in many ways an answer to Earl Lewis’s cogent ques...

...Brent Hayes Edwards Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics Brent Hayes Edwards would like fi rst of all to thank Nadi Edwards, Michael Hanchard, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Michelle Stephens for their thorough, provocative, and gener- Ious...

...Nadi Edwards Small Axe Incorporated 2004 The Ellisonian Injunction: Discourse on a Lower Frequency Grant Farred Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean, Gerard Aching. Minneapo- lis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8166-4018-1 he most...

...Nadi Edwards This paper examines the representation of contemporary figures of “bare life” in the context of postcolonial Jamaican modernity. The representation of Kingston as a dystopia is one such trope of bare life, as evident in Kamau Brathwaite's 1994 prose poem, Trench Town Rock...

...Edward Baugh In this essay, Edward Baugh responds to comments on his 1977 essay “The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History” from Alison Donnell, Laurence Breiner, and Nadi Edwards. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 It would seem useful to begin by giving some indication...

...Charles Forsdick The article explores Edouard Glissant's literary, intellectual and political activity over the past decade in the light of Edward W. Said's concept of `late style'. There is no intention to present the Martiniquan writer and intellectual as an exemplum of Said's categorization...

...' in this essay extemporizes on Edward Said's concept in Orientalism. Othering excludes Asians from the creole project of nationalisms in the region, conferring instead a script of antiquity and cultural spirituality that Asians have colluded with for negotiating difference. This collusion comes with its own...

... in which the idea of a black radical tradition has been employed. The essay suggests that “Africa” and “slavery” are recurrent tropes of this tradition and gives the example of Edward Kamau Brathwaite's discussion of Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa . © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013...

...Edward Baugh A republication of Edward Baugh's essay “The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History,” previously published in Tapia in 1977. The original issues of Tapia are available in the Digital Library of the Caribbean: ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00072147/00265 (the 20 February 1977 issue...

...Alison Donnell In this essay Alison Donnell returns to the material object of Edward Baugh's essay, published in the pages of the Trinidadian little magazine Tapia in 1977, in order to re-read the force of its arguments in the context of its own politicocultural history and to assess...

...Laurence A. Breiner Edward Baugh's essay “The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History” (1977) presents the quarrel as a condition rather than an event and investigates this specifically Caribbean psychopathology and the defense mechanisms associated with it. The investigation implicitly...

...Kelly Baker Josephs This essay is part of a special section on Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” (reprinted in the issue), briefly tracing the dissemination history of Brathwaite’s essay, then focusing on two main lines of argument in it to explore...

...Edward Sammons The onset of the Great Recession posed a stern challenge to the prevailing model for better living through globalization. Late in the last decade, after having dominated the theory and practice of policy reform for over thirty years, the market-first doctrine known as neoliberalism...

...Edward L. Cox Small Axe Incorporated 2007 William Galwey Donovan and the Struggle for Political Change in Grenada, 1883–1920 Edward L. Cox Most studies of political and constitutional change in early twentieth-century Grenada have invariably centered on the activities of T...