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Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 8 A diorama featuring Tainas preparing food, Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo. Photograph by Amanda Moreno, 2015 More
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Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 10 “Two survivors prepare food outside the barracks. The man on the right, presumably, is Jean (Johnny) Voste, born in Belgian Congo, who was the only black prisoner in Dachau.” Photographer unknown. Dachau, Bavaria, Germany, May 1945. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington More
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 34–48.
Published: 01 July 2024
... for pasteles dough—it examines how nostalgia and a longing for “lost” culinary traditions are shaped by notions of space, race, and gender. Drawing on Pedro Lebrón’s concept of cimarronería analéctica , this essay argues that these practices represent a fugitive relationship to food, escaping Eurocentric...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the abolitionist narrative that liberal, individualist freedoms should be spread from England to the West Indies. Wedderburn instead instructs his white, lower-class readers in London about already existing African Jamaican practices of insurrectionary land and food reclamation. First, he champions the provision...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 123–134.
Published: 01 July 2017
... the origins of the roti, and Harnarine's 2011 Doubles with Slight Pepper , in which Trinidadian street food features in a story about migration and a father-son relationship. 3 Francesco Nacchia, “Trinidadian English Creole, Hybrid Identities, and Tasty Food: Audiovisual Translation and Multimodal...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the provision ground, small plots of land enslaved people and their families used to grow food and, ultimately, forge a connection with the land. The author peels back the layers of Berryman’s scenes, looking beyond what has been rendered visible, countering European representations of landscape that privilege...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 67–75.
Published: 01 February 2007
... was the word we used for kerosene. So the story about the Grenadians boiling whole pitch oil tins of ground provi- sions was not only a story about the grossness of their taste, the sheer bulk of the rubbishy food they could put away, but also a story about their poverty.”4...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 122–132.
Published: 01 July 2020
... for those debts owed to Puerto Ricans that will likely never be paid. Scholars have noted that the agroecology movement in Puerto Rico represents “a desire for autonomy and freedom from ongoing dependence on US imports.” Yet, at present, Puerto Rico imports approximately 85 percent of the food its...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
... care was to be extended, rationed, or, if necessary, withheld. Even when this process included an interrogation of the system––the processes of labor recruitment and sourcing of food and medicine available aboard––it failed to turn a critical eye on the specific circumstances that may have led...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 39–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
... when they start college. Suddenly they are reciting historical facts as if nobody ever heard of it before. EP: I particularly enjoyed reading the Callaloo interview in which you discussed the connec- tions between food, memory, and home. “Every meal is a reminder that we’re not home,” you said...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 36–52.
Published: 01 March 2012
... the implication of her first-person narration: she picks at her food more than she eats it, and there is more to her bodily disgust and its materiality than “normal” body-consciousness. Here, Sophie’s newly minted coherence as a bulimic relies on its realist representation as an eating...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 30–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
... increased digitalization and reproducibility, individuals and groups across the world feel moved to establish and safeguard slower, more traditional forms of living.1 In Europe and the United States, for instance, we see the emergence of the “slow food” movement or the trend of “analog living...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 170–176.
Published: 01 July 2017
... on top of each other. “You have the gall to come beg me for food today?” “What you talkin bout?” Jag asked, his eyes narrowed and fixated on her. “I talking to you? I talkin to that good-for-nothing woman here—burn my nice sheet my son bring from Port of Spain!” Ajie shook her head. She...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
...-Sylvain recounts, “As soon as I arrived, I wanted to mingle with the local population. I spent my days in what was then called ‘the native ward.’ . . . I conducted long and patient observations that formed the basis of books and essays I have written about children’s games, food, leisure, and youth.” 38...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 182–192.
Published: 01 November 2013
... to that afternoon, my former mechanic, Marc, and I were having a wide-ranging conversation about pesticides, about food, about hormones and aging. We talked about prostate cancer, about manhood, and about his workout and diet regimen. We talked more about pesticides. We talked about his body. We talked about what...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 78–95.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and roadblocks to shut down the country—seemed unbounded in its effects. People called it peyi lòk (blocked country). Nothing was happening. There was little to no energy in the city. Stores and schools were shuttered. Roads closed. Hospitals reported dwindling supplies. Food, basic household goods, and just...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 178–185.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of leftovers. The boy, now almost as tall as Ulysses, took the bag, leaned his head expectantly to one side, took out a handful of food, and started eating. When he was done, he flapped his wings a few times, lifting off the ground only a few inches. Finally he settled atop a wooden crate, folded his wings...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., and Resistance, 1959–1971 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). 20 While there were certainly shortages of staple foods as a result of the government’s focus on exportable crops in 1979 when the caldosa was “created,” soon after, in 1980, the government opened the agropecuarios...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 105–120.
Published: 01 February 2008
... prayers and scripture readings and it was over. The 30 men and 9 women who drowned when their vessel capsized on July 10 while under tow by the Bahamian Defence Force, were returned to the earth. Dust to dust. Ashes to ashes. . . . It is not clear how long they were at sea. But their food...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Jamaican sufferer was “Food, Clothes, and Shelter”: Whether living in skyscraper, or even sleeping under cellar, the cry is for Jah-Jah, break the yoke of the oppressor. 8 Black British reggae music of the 1970s was very much centered on “sufferation”—that is, the state of suffering...
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