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Day at the Park Belizean Festival . Musicians perform onstage during the Da...
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in Unruly Diasporas: Memory, Disaster, and Belizean Migration
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 2 Day at the Park Belizean Festival . Musicians perform onstage during the Day at the Park Belizean Festival presented by the Concerned Belizean Association at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California, September 1996. Photograph by Verona Jemmott. Shades of LA Photo Collection S-014-621
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Riffing on Omeros : The Relevance of Isaac Julien to Cultural Politics in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 83–96.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Jane Bryce When St. Lucian-descended Black British artist Isaac Julien presented his avant-garde triple-screen video work Paradise Omeros at a Festival of African and Caribbean Film in Barbados, a member of the audience commended him on the work but regretted it was not being shown to the “real...
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Sonia Boyce and Crop Over
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 148–163.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Allison Thompson Sonia Boyce's two-screen video, Crop-Over , visually samples the many traditions, histories and cultural practices that inform this Barbadian festival, culminating with the carnivalesque parade known as Kadooment. Presenting a wide range of related performances, some real and some...
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The Point of No Return: Wendy Nanan as Postindenture Indian Female Visionary Artist
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 68–80.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., to the variegated festivals of a postslavery postindenture society of Trinidad is re-presented in the symbolic and allegorical pieces that Nanan has produced for over two decades. These evoke messages of harmony despite difference and of political agency for a nation. Her symbolism establishes an Indian aesthetic...
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Dominican Pride and Shame: Gender, Race, and LGBT Activism in Santo Domingo
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Dominicans to question formulations of LGBT civil rights activism driven by NGO resources. The essay contends that under neoliberal development, Santo Domingo’s LGBT Pride festivities, such as the Caravana del Orgullo Gay, come to overshadow long-standing Dominican feminist coalitions and collective...
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The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Aaron Kamugisha; Aaron Kamugisha This essay provides a meditation on the field of Caribbean intellectual history. Commencing with a reflection on the second edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta 1976), the essay proceeds to outline the contours of the field through a consideration...
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Ciné woulé, ciné en progrès : An Investigation of the Francophone Caribbean Film Circuit, 1968–2010
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 45–68.
Published: 01 November 2010
... a regionally focused film festival, Images caraïbes ou Festival des paradoxes, orga-
nized by Suzy Landeau.12 She too received aid from the Conseil régional de la Martinique,
the local Martinican government. Although she does not quantify the amount received for the
series, she does indicate...
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Cinema in Haiti
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 87–93.
Published: 01 October 2008
...: Le chemin de la liberté (Haiti: The Road to Freedom; 1974, full-length
film, 120 mm, black and white). This film, sponsored by the well-known journal Les cahiers du cinéma, launched
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won many prizes and were shown at numerous international festivals...
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Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dub Poetry and the Political Aesthetics of Carnival in Britain
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 54–69.
Published: 01 October 2006
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the collective’s journal by the same name, Carnival was “central to the developing cultural
movement within the West Indian community in the United Kingdom.”7 In fact, Race
Today had been deeply involved with the festival since 1976, when running battles broke out
between black youths...
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Theory versus Practice: On the Postcolonial Marginalization of Haitian Literature
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
... paramount to the whole Etonnants voyageurs
project, for instance. This festival has played a pivotal role in bringing foremost and lesser-
known Haitian littérateurs to much greater literary prominence within French and francophone
spheres, literally flying them to France. Yes, it is significant...
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Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 45–62.
Published: 01 November 2021
... soldiers) as they fight for Cuba Libre against foolish and ghoulish foes. The series is a far cry from the didactic and panegyric rhetoric that has customarily shrouded the national epic—and by extension, the socialist epic. With vernacular humor and festive flair, Elpidio Valdés renders history...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 260–265.
Published: 01 March 2017
...: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography (2012) and See Me Here: A Survey of Contemporary Self-Portraits from the Caribbean (2014). She has exhibited work in Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions , Washington, DC (2011); Pictures from Paradise , CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 197–200.
Published: 01 July 2015
... has exhibited work in a number of exhibitions, including Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions , in Washington, DC; Pictures from Paradise , at the CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto; and In Another Place, and Here , at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC. She is the cofounder...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 175–178.
Published: 01 October 2008
... Festival in 2002 for his body of work and his
documentary Courage de femme. In March 2007, Le Président a-t-il le sida? won the Prix Paul
Robeson at the Ouagadougou Film and Television Festival in Burkina Faso.
A. James Arnold, since publication of his Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poet...
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Dirty Martini Delivers Gender Justice
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 121–132.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., a quirky flourish, and a statement. It was Wigstock, the festival of drag performances founded in 1984 as a response to the hostile anti-LGBTQ environment fostered by the state’s reaction to the AIDS crisis and the neighborhood’s increasing gentrification. My friends and I quickly donned wigs and headed...
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Dub Poetry as a Black Atlantic Body-Archive
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and 2010, the collective convened three national and two international dub poetry festivals in Southern Ontario, in Canada, as a way “to consolidate,” as they said in their 2004 press release, “the location of dub poetry as a central aspect of the spoken-word movement” in Canada and the United States. 35...
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De Jamette in We : Redefining Performance in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 60–78.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... By exploring Carnival of this period, I assess the various movements
cultivated by these women who exhibit what I call jametteness: a performativity that asserts
both a creative and subversive impact on the festival. After the 1980s, the jamette became
destigmatized, attaining a new significance...
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Sounding Jamaican—After Carolyn Cooper
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 90–102.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (London: Oxford University Press, 2022). 17 For a video recording of the “Flame to Fire” panel at the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, 13 September 2020, see www.bklyncbeanlitfest.org/2020-festival or www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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Créolité , Creolization, and Contemporary Caribbean Culture
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 180–198.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., and Barbara Bridges, “Caribbean Festival Arts: An Introduction,” in John W. Nunley and Judith Bettelheim, eds., Caribbean Festival Arts (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1988), 34–35. 57 Rex Nettleford, “Implications for Caribbean Development,” in Nunley and Bettelheim, Caribbean Festival...
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Communal Style: Indo-Caribbean Women's Jewelry
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
Published: 01 July 2017
... visuals that actually resist the logic of museum and art gallery culture. Alongside traditional visual forms such as paintings, photographs, and sculptures, there exists an alternative set of visuals intrinsic to street theaters and festivals such as carnival, Ramleela, Hosay, Phagwa, and Junkanoo...
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