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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 34–48.
Published: 01 July 2024
... fugitivity marronage sabor flavor food sovereignty In her 2019 article “A Pilgrimage to the Keeper of Puerto Rico’s Past, before She Disappears,” the food writer Illyanna Maisonet recounts her journey to explore Puerto Rico’s culinary past. Her voyage takes her to el Burén de Lula, a restaurant...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 30–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
... recordings of man. Jamaican ginger is known for the strong and distinct flavour, which we proudly capture in this candle.” The lid of this candle depicts laborers harvesting ginger in straw baskets. Again, the emphasis on pride in artisanal production, local products, and age-old...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... The flavour of his thinking, the furious silences that fill his heart, and finally his function, the work that chooses him and for which there is no alternative; no other instruments he can select to fulfill that choice. These constitute the style of the man. Mittelholzer’s life had these: a special shape...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 February 2007
... of the only language of caring; it has no specific words; its expressions are universal, its translations are multinational, it needs no words for its survival, though words have often flavoured its revival. SX22 • February 2007...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 43–47.
Published: 01 November 2017
... (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014); and Arnold Bertram, N. W. Manley and the Making of Modern Jamaica (Kingston: Arawak, 2017). 3 One need only mention the following to give a flavor of the project: Colin A. Palmer, Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 123–128.
Published: 01 November 2018
.... But Glissant does not write in the vernacular. Apart from a few phrases, occasionally in Creole, presumably to give a flavor to thoughts or conversations, the closest he comes to this is in reproducing the words written by an old field hand on bits of cloth and paper. In this case the words had been orally...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2013
... lumped into the greater African-American experience when in actuality we bring an entirely different flavor and dynamic to it. This novel has given our culture a resounding voice. […] This novel was a journey to self-discovery and a find that was definitely worth waiting for.” 60 This review...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., from “Anacaona,” 2003. Photograph by Rosamond S. King. Courtesy of the artist piece. As I remember it, my role in the preparation of “Anacaona” was to encourage Gabrielle to maintain the excess and the confrontation of the piece. The confrontation had a particular flavor because, while it reenacted...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 165–174.
Published: 01 October 2008
... for the “flavor of the month” fickleness of the moguls of the art galleries of Chelsea, New York, or such “mainstream” (please note the quotation marks) fairs as Art Basel (the one in Switzerland, not necessarily the one in Miami—but maybe that one too) or such “exclusive” biennial...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Burgos, twirled around him, he sang in Spanish about how everyone wants to be Latino but they lack sazón, the distinct cultural flavor and connection to the past that defines our communities.” 17 Significantly, Tego Calderón, a living Black Puerto Rican legendary reggaetonero was missing from...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 89–99.
Published: 01 July 2019
... there. There’s a rusty tang on my tongue. I always bite down on the tip right before a bust. Like I need the taste of blood to remind me I’m no pussy. I’m a man and I can hunt and I can kill. I suck on my tongue, on the wound, drinking the metal flavor. Then they descend on us. It’s like a flurry of bats...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
Published: 01 March 2013
... “The Idea of a Black Radical Tradition,” organized by David Scott, was held at Columbia University, New York, 22–23 April 2011. 2 For more on the dialectic of captivity and flight/escape, see Fred Moten, “Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape: Preface for a Miles Davis Solo,” Women and Performance...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 125–139.
Published: 01 October 2006
... in American hip-hop on popular cable television stations. Dancehall’s cosmopolitan flavor and its inward and outward reach favor the strategic re- fashioning of the self to approximate “foreign” images of superstar status that are broadcast on popular cable TV channels like BET and MTV...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 223–236.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., perfectly whole and male, she feared he would steal her heart from her daughters. But each love had a distinct flavour and texture, unique to each child, mercurial in the way it bubbled through her life. It still surprised her that neither girl mentioned the attack at the old house. In the aftermath...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 39–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
... know that my characters are not speaking English, but the writing comes out in English with some Creole flavor. EP: Have you received any criticism from the Haitian community for writing in English? ED: Yes. Some people think it’s all about money. One can argue that—and it was for me— French...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 80–96.
Published: 01 June 2006
... lounges: the fire dancer, the limbo contest, and the old calypso. 40 The Pegasus is such a caricature and it mirrors the local flavor promised in the Ritz Carlton advertisements an all-inclusive resort, which insulates the tourist from the real world of islands and islanders and provides them...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 37–53.
Published: 01 October 2006
... or the diaspora version of home always remains the same as the homeland’s version of itself, is to suggest that identity remains static even with crossing borders. It is to suggest that frequent visits to the Caribbean, telephone calls, remittances, and the Caribbean flavor that a few...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of Cadillacs in salmon, pink and mauve,” according to Boorstin, “prove that the species acclimated to the tropics.” It was thus understandable, he explained, why a leader such as Governor Luis Muñoz Marín felt compelled to “seek desperately for some native flavor, some power of resistance to prevent the island...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of emancipation.” See Fred Moten, “Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape: A Preface for a Solo by Miles Davis,” Women and Performance 17, no. 2 (2007): 242–43. 23 I am referring to publications such as Demetrius Eudell and Carolyn Allen, eds., “Sylvia Wynter: A Transculturalist Rethinking of Modernity,” special...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 67–75.
Published: 01 February 2007
... into delicious callaloo soup, or they can be boiled and swizzled into a nutritious side dish, flavoured with spices and seasoning and little pieces of saltmeat. That, too, is calalloo. For that reason Grenadians refer to dasheen leaf as callaloo leaf. A popular dish in Grenada...