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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 124–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Gordon Rohlehr This essay, an extract from a longer two-hundred-page manuscript, traces the author’s literary friendship with Kamau Brathwaite from their first meeting in 1968 to Brathwaite’s passing in 2020. It relies on correspondence over fifty years, memories of meetings, and critical responses...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2017
...David Scott © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 I've come recently to the question of friendship, come contingently, as it were, from a number of convergent lines of preoccupation. I put it this way so as to underline the fact that I do not approach friendship from some supposed organic or a priori...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 147–155.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of female homosociality, cooperation, and desire, such as zami and mati , as well as sakhi , Indo-Caribbean traditions of ritual friendship, to help contextualize women’s passionate friendships. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 female same-sex desire friendship...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2023
... tends to be mentioned as merely anecdotal. This essay argues that Yugoslavia represented an important detour for Césaire. Césaire’s friendship with Guberina and his discovery of Martinska allowed him to see how the particularity of his historical experience as a member of the African diaspora could also...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 129–139.
Published: 01 November 2018
... twenty-five-year friendship between Maraniss and Benítez-Rojo. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Caribbean fiction in translation Afro-Cuban prose rhythm Antonio Benítez-Rojo In 1982, Antonio Benítez-Rojo lived as a professor of Romance languages at Amherst College. Expected to teach...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 50–70.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Cunard,” St. Andrew, Jamaica, 28 July 1932 ( MGP 7:522–26). See also Nancy Cunard, “Jamaica—The Negro Island,” Negro: An Anthology , abridged ed. (New York: Continuum, 1970), 272–84; and Gordon, Nancy Cunard , 170–71. 93 The phrase “the politics of friendship” comes from Jacques Derrida...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 19–33.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in their letters to each other demonstrates how radical friendship between two Black women has the potential to save lives when the women reinforce each other with the fuel to stay alive. 44 These letters have the potential to inspire new coalitions, much like how the email from my uncle Moses inspired new...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2012
... that would be able to summon up for me the meaning of your personal and intellectual presence in the friendship we hold. Thus, acknowledging this failure, and in lieu of that gift, I have resorted to writing in order to try to capture a fragment of the texture that underlines the connection we have. I...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 71–83.
Published: 01 March 2013
... natural (that is to say, not inherited) nobility, his introduction to the countess is, on the one hand, an inauguration of a deep friendship that will cause a tinge of romantic rivalry for Gwendoline and that will lead Gray to a lifelong friendship with the countess's nephew, and, on the other, a deadly...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 171–181.
Published: 01 July 2021
... showed me the immense possibilities that American civilization has created in friendships, affection, the race question family and all aspects of life in this huge society. This is not an apology. I merely state my regrets—the results of my ignorance and public miseducation. I hope to have left...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 199–210.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., and other concerned Harlem residents for discussion of social and cultural issues. 22 Married to a Caribbean woman, traveling frequently throughout the region, and residing part-time in St. Martin, Bearden developed friendships with a range of Caribbean artists, poets, and political activists, including...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
... remains challenging. This analysis reveals a nuanced distinction between the term kambrada , which embodies concepts of camaraderie and friendship and possesses ties to the transatlantic slave trade and West African cultural principles, and kachapera , which instead relates to culinary traditions...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 106–114.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of the host country and in English, usually mediating through the device of simultaneous translation, voluntarily provided by members of the circle. By 2005, the demands for participation from the younger constituencies surfaced, and IACS decided to open up from a smaller circle of friendship to form...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2015
...David Scott Text of an address at the memorial for Stuart Hall, London, 2014. It reflects briefly on Hall's relation to Jamaica. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 Stuart Hall Jamaica memorial My friendship with Stuart Hall was always as one Jamaican to another, one displaced Jamaican...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 164–173.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., the grief we have caused to others, the forgiveness and even friendship extended to us by several of those the Revolution held as political prisoners; the forgiveness we have found ourselves able to extend towards those who gave false evidence against us, and who manufactured that evidence and organised...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
.... Our friendship runs deep, based on people-to-people ties, shared values, and mutual respect.” 1 The ambassador’s words speak to the neocolonial underpinnings of Dominican identity, the historical interchange between these two countries, and the many narratives that have been buried by both Western...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 71–92.
Published: 01 September 2003
... PPhiliphilip
of a nickname is a common Caribbean practice that often begins in school and may NNantonanton
linger for most of one’s life. A nickname is an indication of familiarity, which elevates
the subject through friendship, as not everyone will know or have access to this name.
It is equally a form...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2019
... of surprise that one can experience when one’s thinking comes back refracted through a loop of voices and perspectives that have nothing to do with one’s own itineraries and trajectories. And when facilitated by emerging friendships such as these, the simple muted name of this experience is elation...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 137–149.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of their own spiritual destinies. Rifts within churches became open riots
necessitating police intervention. In Jamaica, white missionaries, who moved toward
more infl exible positions of orthodoxy, questioned a rather eff ervescent black agency.
Th e “friendship” between missionaries and abolitionists...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 119–123.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of his poetic production or not. The simplest opinion would be to
say that each supported the other.
His relations with the surrealists on one hand, particularly his friendships with André
Breton and Paul Eluard, and his intimate relations with Léopold Sédar Senghor and the
Cuban...
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