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Bodies of Color: Images of Women in the Works of Firelei Báez and Rachelle Mozman
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the female body. Through their imagery, the body serves as a sign for presence and invisibility, for fearlessness and fragility. The permanence of the body's surface becomes a kind of visible text that both artists develop through their narratives. By examining specific series of works by each artists, one...
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Oozing between Dimensions: Multiple Perspectives on the Real in the Works of Nicole Awai
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 43–56.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Caribbean art perception the real female body painting In a work from Trinidadian-born artist Nicole Awai's years-long series of drawings Specimens from Local Ephemera (2003–11), a conjoined female figure looks through two holes as two screws hover menacingly behind her (see fig. 1 ). 1...
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Writing the Feminine: The Representation of Women in Contemporary Dominican Visual Art
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
Published: 01 March 2017
... transmits the reproductive capacity of nature to the female body made out of wood. Thus Ramírez subverts the cultural devaluations of women that place them closer to nature in phallocentric society. She also gives visibility to motherhood, which is usually disassociated from sex work. Social anthropologist...
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Forging Relational Difference: Racial Gendered Violence and Dispossession in Guyana
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... sense of geography: how the spatial legacies of colonialism, slavery, and dispossession extend and map onto the gendered body—the black female body in particular—through ongoing colonial imperatives to dismember, dispossess, and dislocate, even as it forms the very grounds on which communities attempt...
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Sewing Up Questions of Cultural Identity: Lorna Goodison's From Harvey River
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Sandra Pouchet Paquet From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island is an autobiographical/biographical narrative that not only resituates the body of Lorna Goodison's published work in relation to the mother as archetype of female becoming, it also reaffirms the historical trajectory...
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S’habiller sexy en body string : The French Guianese “Bad Gyal” and the Image of French Caribbean Women
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of a conservative gender ideology of female property and propriety, these women lay proper claim to the control of their own bodies.” 22 Both “slack” and “erotic” emphasize the female body and female sexuality, and more specifically, the Black lower-class female body and sexuality. Her femininity and sexuality...
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Bodies of Horror in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women and Clovis Brown's Cartoons
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... In other words, if heterosexual femaleness twinned to implicitly illegitimate economic enterprisingness is threatening to Barbados's political body, the homosexual's “femaleness,” which, according to the popular conceptions that Clovis deploys, Barbados tolerates in practice if not in law but Jamaica does...
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Exposing Caribbean Tourism
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 209–211.
Published: 01 September 2002
... local and black or foreign and white, have developed varied sexual
tastes and aesthetics for particular shades of black female bodies. 2 e race discussion is
Small Axe 12, September 2002: pp. 209–211
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further complicated by data revealing that white female tourists arriving...
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Contributors
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 212.
Published: 01 September 2002
... or foreign and white, have developed varied sexual
tastes and aesthetics for particular shades of black female bodies. 2 e race discussion is
Small Axe 12, September 2002: pp. 209–211
ISSN 0799-0537
further complicated by data revealing that white female tourists arriving from Europe...
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Subverting Colonial Portraiture: A Contemporary Memorial to the Women of Egypt Estate
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 112–118.
Published: 01 June 2008
... hair design. The fact that several
of these implements also recall a history of subjugation of the female body in seventeenth-
century Britain—where the bridle or branks (a metal head cage with a built-in gag3) was used
to publicly humiliate women who “talked too much”—further underscores...
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Behind the Orange Door
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Caribbean art Caribbean performance black performance art black women artists Caribbean female body “You don't do it right,” Rosa said. The steups, the distinctive mouth movement and sound found in Trinidad, where her family is from, and throughout the Caribbean. When people suck their teeth...
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Art Talk and the Uses of History
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 175–185.
Published: 01 November 2015
... purposes by way of the fragment—the shards of a narrative that is really impossible to reconstruct so that calling this assemblage a puzzle is concise to its vocation. I can find a black female body here only by inference, but what would be the fault even if I could not maintain, as Copeland suggests...
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Monument and Meaning
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 137–153.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of Redemption Song in 2003.
Arguably the most visually striking element of Facey Cooper’s sculpture is the treat-
ment of mass and volume in the bodies of the male and female fi gures. Th e approach to
the bodies in Redemption Song exemplifi es a shift in Facey Cooper’s work since the start...
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When the Moon Waxes Red : Afro-Asian Feminist Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Indenture
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
... the Moon Waxes Red turns to historical memory in order to critique political culture in postapartheid South Africa by centering the Indian female body as the site of critique. By returning to the legacy of Indian indentureship in South Africa and its residues in the contemporary period, Khan's 2016...
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Multiplying Archives
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
... literatures to explore and compare selected scenes from a broad range of such works in these archives, a pending question is what happens when the imago and ego being constituted in primal scenes are those of a black female body. The scene I would like to discuss begins at the river, where the young...
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Dangerous Disturbances: Carolyn Cooper’s Noisy Worldliness
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and carnality of the demotic “vulgar body.” All three are inflected by gender, race, class, and sexuality, and Cooper reads them as ineradicably inscribed on the Black female bodies that negotiate the complex and changing relationships to power and authority. The clash and the vulgar body can be seen...
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Rethinking Interdisciplinarity: Meditations on the Sacred Possibilities of an Erotic Feminist Pedagogy
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 139–153.
Published: 01 October 2007
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15. Ibid, 194.
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and disciplined classification of knowledge about desire on and through the female body.”16
The institutionalized messages are clear: the serious body is the masculinized and/or asexual...
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Postcoloniality, Atlantic Orders, and the Migrant Male in the Writings of Caryl Phillips
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 17–39.
Published: 01 March 2005
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is consecrated by the unifi ed entrance into a female body. As a result, Bertram’s sexual
relationship with Patsy defi es the social contract with his brother because he does not
ssmallmall allow his brother to fully participate in that experience. After Bertram has sex with Patsy
aaxexe...
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Categories, Citizenship, Erotic Agency, and the Problem of Freedom
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 147–158.
Published: 01 March 2015
... to be intrinsically connected to the actual female body . Of course, another reading of Lorde's important essay is to treat it as an intervention, positioning the erotic as a strategic resource/tool for women, mobilized in support of their emancipatory practices against a patriarchal system. Erotic power remains...
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Feasting on Scraps
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 198–212.
Published: 01 July 2012
... her form and manufacture. Rather, like the cut-out black nationalist fist and the disturbing rendition of the maternal dyad that sits beneath it, the firearm is leaned against the figure as if to reiterate the African diasporic female body's assigned role within modern political, psychic...
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