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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 123–131.
Published: 01 July 2019
... for amplifying the study of imperial and nationalist forms of misrecognition, which Ramírez calls “ghosting.” It also argues that a focus on past and present exercises of power as ghosting may permit a greater understanding of stealthy—if often ambivalent—forms of resistance to empire and nationalism. 17...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Susan C. Méndez Recent texts in Latinx literature have ghosts that demonstrate new knowledge about history, culture, and subjectivity. In Song of the Water Saints and Soledad , the first novels of authors Nelly Rosario and Angie Cruz, respectively, the figure of the ghost is a trope...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 142–151.
Published: 01 July 2019
... representations of the Dominican Republic as a space that is racially unconscious and reminds us of the overlooked history of free black experience in the eastern side of the island, pressing the reader to face the ghosted racialized realities that these facts highlight. This review considers the epistemological...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
... their historical obliteration in Western imaginaries. Three questions guide the commentary: How have Afro-Dominican women been ghosted from national building projects in both the Dominican Republic and the United States? How have Afro-Dominican women writers and performers refused traditional understandings...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to contemporary visual artwork is the perspective of Caribbean women artists. Through a discussion of Roshini Kempadoo's interactive installation Ghosting , the essay considers alternative forms of archiving lived memory through Diana Taylor's notion of the repertoire. It also considers modernist...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 170–177.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Barbara Jenkins © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 It used to have a petty thief where we living. His name is Ghost. Of course his mother didn't christen him that—no way can you look at a defenceless little baby and drop the name Ghost on him just so, not same time you putting on the maljo jet...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 153–163.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... Comrade Sister asks readers to wrestle with historical ghosts and uncomfortable truths that undergird liberation movements, including Grenada’s. For Lambert, those ghosts manifest as ancestral knowledge. This essay explores ancestral knowledge as an ontological project that, at its core, is concerned...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 85–97.
Published: 01 November 2017
... is the ghost of Sir Arthur Jennings. The third is reference to global figures and events that index the destabilization of governments in Latin America and Africa. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 Jamaica development urban renewal Marlon James Kingston Whether it functions as the literal and figurative...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 193–199.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Colin Dayan This essay brings law more fully into the rituals of terror, the fictions of slavery that Brown portrays so powerfully in * The Reaper's Garden. * In tracking the ghost-ridden traces of persons and property, I consider how palpable and visible remain the deposits of slave history, how...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Colonial Phantoms maintains that “recognition slips easily into a surveillance maneuver”: “What if misrecognition—or ‘ghosting,’ to use terminology Ramírez employs in dialogue with Anne McClintock—facilitates resistance?” My development of the concept of “ghosting”—and its connection to what is visible...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 53–68.
Published: 01 July 2014
... into contact with Voorman's manuscript, the narrator, Milton Woodsley, and his friends, the Nevinson family, find themselves haunted by the ghost of the planter, whose spirit remains tormented by the demons. In order to exorcise the evil forces, Milton and the Nevinsons must uncover Voorman's bones and flute...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 242–244.
Published: 01 March 2004
... by the murky
processes of empire.
224444
The Tragedy of the Zong
Geoffrey Philp
Feeding the Ghosts, Fred D’Aguiar. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. ISBN 0060955937
eeding the Ghosts, Fred D’Aguiar’s third novel, is a narrative reconstruction of the
ill-fated journey of the Zong...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 245–247.
Published: 01 March 2004
... by the murky
processes of empire.
224444
The Tragedy of the Zong
Geoffrey Philp
Feeding the Ghosts, Fred D’Aguiar. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. ISBN 0060955937
eeding the Ghosts, Fred D’Aguiar’s third novel, is a narrative reconstruction of the
ill-fated journey of the Zong...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2014
... but by pioneering a method that she called “literary fieldwork,” which enabled her to make contact with the lingering remains of the past and the mystified elements of the present. Her willingness to traffic with spirits and ghosts (and dogs, too, although dogs are outside our zone of reference)—her engagement...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 201–208.
Published: 01 September 2002
... times.”
“But it’s sad. Sad as Ireland.”
He looked battered; his shoulders were hunched over as if he carried all the unredeemable sins of his
race. We are not so diff erent, she thought. Ghosts stood in his way; she could see that.
“Is it Paradise you’re looking for?” she asked...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 81–93.
Published: 01 July 2017
... wears a nose ring and churia (bracelet), which reveals a connection to elsewhere despite the women appearing almost naturalized among the “plantation picturesque” of coconuts. 27 If we juxtapose the surface realism of this archival image with Kempadoo's digital artwork from her series Ghosting...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 80–88.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to be the heiress of Simone
Schwarz-Bart, Paule Marshall, Maryse Condé, who display in their novels that which Toni
Morrison defines as the concept of “black cosmogony,” represented by the enrolling of the
ghost character who marks, as absent, all those bodies, those anonymous voices, drowned...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 90–102.
Published: 01 November 2012
... is a specter that haunts the circum-Caribbean region.1 In Silencing the Past, Michel-
Rolph Trouillot likens the invisible yet felt presence of slavery long after the institution has
ended to a ghost. “Slavery here is a ghost,” he writes, “both the past and a living presence; and
the problem of historical...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 178–187.
Published: 01 November 2014
... years old. She did not like dogs or men. But that did not matter to me. She told me stories about ghosts who landed in white skin on the window ledge, taught me how to tell one kind of cricket from another, showed me where in the creek I could find the biggest cottonmouth water moccasins, and gave me...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 256–260.
Published: 01 June 2006
... and the lonely
Ghosts.
Museums are cold at night
When the wake of my cries, crossing
The floor of the Egyptian gallery, fainter
Than the smudge of moonlight through dusty
Windows, warns of subtly tactile thoughts
Despite “Do not touch the exhibits” and
The fierce frown of the grey guard, draped...
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