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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard Taken together, C. L. R. James’s 1933 political pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government and 1936 novel Minty Alley reveal the author’s competing visions of relations between Africans and Indians in the British West Indies. In The Case for West-Indian Self...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 10. The Jamaican government destroying Shanty Town, off Foreshore Road (renamed Marcus Garvey Drive), in 1966. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 36–52.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., loudspeakers, words, and sounds become actants in this story. This essay looks at what difference they made in the waning moments of British rule in Jamaica and whether it might it be useful to attend to the role of sound in discussions of governance and colonial encounters. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 “Let...
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in Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 10 Joiri Minaya, proposal for the artistic intervention on the Columbus statue in front of the Government House in Nassau, The Bahamas, 2017. Courtesy of the artist
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 167–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Figure 10. The Jamaican government destroying Shanty Town, off Foreshore Road (renamed Marcus Garvey Drive), in 1966. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. ...
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in The Caribbean Scorpion: The Saint-Barthélemy Archive and Swedish Colonial Amnesia
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 2 The Swedish, French, local Saint-Barthélemy, and European Union flags in front of the Gustavia Hôtel de la collectivité, the seat of the local governing body. Photograph by the author.
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in Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 8 Sammy Chong’s huaqiao (overseas Chinese) passport, 1945. This type of passport was issued by the Chinese government to local-born Jamaican Chinese for travel to China. Courtesy of Kathleen (Kay) Chin
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 133–146.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Natasha Lightfoot The crisis unleashed in Barbuda by Hurricane Irma in 2017 followed centuries of neglect by the British colonial state and then by the postcolonial government of its sister island, Antigua. Barbuda developed customary communal-land tenure as a result of its peculiarities in slavery...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 13. Dr. Walter Rodney at the Palisadoes International (Norman Manley International Airport) in October 1968, returning to Jamaica from a black writers conference in Canada. The government did not allow him to reenter the island. © 1968 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
... on the sociology of mobilities and space, this article suggests that changes in technologies of transportation and communciation, media discourses, and cultural performances of travel within recent regimes of neoliberal governance and regulation are contributing to new ways of developing, curating and staging...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 50–74.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Anne McClintock The question is still open: what is the purpose of Guantanamo Bay? Why torture people whom the government and the interrogators know are innocent? What kind of U.S. empire now extends its filaments throughout the global gulag of interrogation prisons, torture-ships and internment...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Maeve McCusker In an interview which took place in the Maison Française, Oxford, on 10 May 2008, the day instituted by the Chirac government to commemorate the crime of slavery, Patrick Chamoiseau discusses his attempts to raise consciousness of slavery among young Antilleans. He reflects on his...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 24–42.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Christian Høgsbjerg This essay examines C. L. R. James's relationship to the heroic and inspiring arc of labour rebellions that swept the colonial British Caribbean during the 1930s. The essay begins by discussing James's 1932 work putting the case for West Indian self-government, The Life...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 174–185.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Peter Hallward Jean-Bertrand Aristide was re-elected president of Haiti in 2000, with a massive parliamentary majority. My book Damming the Flood (2007) tried to explain how and why his government overthrown, several years later, in an internationally-sponsored coup-d'état. Novelist Lyonel...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 159–166.
Published: 01 July 2023
... governing sex, marriage, and public dress. The pairing of antisodomy laws and bestiality codes during the early colonial era, Gosine contends, underwrites contemporary attitudes that marginalize a variety of nonheteronormative expressions and continues to influence a collective compulsion to constantly...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 18–32.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Dashiell Moore In Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere (2011), Raphael Dalleo draws on the concept of the field to note that Caribbean writers often “operate within a constrained set of possibilities governed by certain historically determined rules . . . from accommodation to opposition...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 156–166.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Jacqueline Couti The French Creole term makoumè does not belong to the political and cultural discussions by French Caribbean LGBT communities seeking protection against abuse using the laws sanctioned by the French government. One would also be hard-pressed to find local and Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 108–114.
Published: 01 November 2011
.... Britton recounts some of her memories of time spent with Glissant and his wife, Sylvie, and attempts to give a picture of what he was like as a man: a man for whom the idea of Relation governed both his life and his writing. © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 “Always Changing, while
Still Remaining...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 155–163.
Published: 01 November 2011
... a responsive and decent government in Haiti is the heritage of a collective struggle made up of actors from different strata of Haitian society, the complex intermingling of which Smith does an admirable job of trying to disentangle. © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 BOOK DISCUSSION: Matthew J. Smith, Red and Black...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 125–137.
Published: 01 March 2014
... for the reproduction of society away from government and into the hands of individuals. But how widespread was this embrace among the broader population, how have different sectors of Jamaican society interpreted and responded to neoliberal ideals, and what options remain? This essay contributes to the assessment...
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