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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 35–52.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Danielle Roper; Traci-Ann Wint In 2017 the radical women’s rights group known as the Tambourine Army emerged in response to gender-based violence, sexual abuse, and structures of impunity in Jamaica. The group used hashtags, organized marches, and teach-ins to encourage women to speak out against...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Robert A. Hill This essay examines the role played by George Beckford in grappling critically with the complicated legacy of the plantation system. It focuses on the transition from his role in the New World group to his participation in the Abeng newspaper group in Jamaica, in 1969. The essay...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2011
... in the understanding of space, landscape, and those who inhabit the sites of visitation. It is the author's hope that such an investigation will yield a compelling discursive reassessment of how we might rethink the role of “native informants” as cosmopolitans who, despite a fixed identity within a minority group...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
... is illuminated by a call-and-response between his Tristes Tropiques and Antonio Benítez-Rojo's The Repeating Island . A close reading reveals that the work of Benítez-Rojo extends one central discursive trope established by Lévi-Strauss—that of the cultural “transformation group.” For Benítez-Rojo, the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Patricia Mohammed This essay examines the problem of being Asian in the Caribbean, Asian referring generically to settled groups originating from the sub-continent of Asia. The essay traces how demographic minority status and religious difference have historically led to the process of becoming...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 115–127.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Patricia Donatien-Yssa This essay chronicles the rise and fall of the cultural groups Fwomajé and Totem and their contributions to the development of the arts in Martinique. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Translated by Nadève Ménard Fwomajé and Totem:
The Beginnings and
Consolidation...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... on exemplary practitioners of this demanding task—on historically situated insider-outsiders such as Freud and Benjamin as well as on subaltern groups who seek recognition and reattachment to an illusory transcendental “civilization.” 26 Adam Kuper, Culture: The Anthropologists’ Account (Cambridge, MA...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 29–49.
Published: 01 November 2015
... contemporary revisionist intentions. On the one hand, there is emphasis on hybridity and fluidity, while, on the other, diasporas are often encapsulated as discrete, implicitly or explicitly racialized groups, notably African and Indian or Asian. The essay considers key theoretical approaches in diaspora...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 100–107.
Published: 01 July 2022
... decades and have seen the rise of organized Black political groups on the French public stage, how one speaks Blackness in France has become especially fraught. France race Blackness French colorblindness In his 2020, one-hour Netflix special Fary Is the New Black , French comic Fary notes...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 55–69.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Petra R. Rivera-Rideau In 2012, reggaeton artist Tego Calderón released a music video for his song “Robin Hood.” The video tells the story of a man who aids a group of undocumented Dominican immigrants to Puerto Rico. Through a close reading of “Robin Hood,” this essay argues that Calderón...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 69–82.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Thomas arrived from St. Barths after slavery. These white minorities have expanded connections between friends and families as well as in their departed homeland and the Virgin Islands. Their strong religious beliefs and in-group solidarity allowed them to remain in the sociological and economic comfort...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 109–124.
Published: 01 July 2021
... with the revolutionary triumph in 1959, and her affiliation to the editorial group El Puente (1961–65). Intersectionality allows an understanding of how Morejón’s self-identification and self-representation as a black revolutionary female writer condition her elaboration of counternarratives that thwart the Eurocentric...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 42–52.
Published: 01 October 2008
... in Haiti. The article argues that, in suggesting the interdependencies that exist between individuals and groups in Haiti, Trouillot's work offers a potential way out of the repetitive, circular history that revenge and hatred tend to create. ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 144–153.
Published: 01 March 2012
... in the metropole it offers a new and important analysis of the character of British slave ownership on the brink of emancipation. Questions raised by Draper's work about the rise and influence of this absentee group, about the diversity of slave ownership in the British Atlantic, and about the emergence of dynamic...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 143–165.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... The essay reminisces and imagines different scenarios of survival and resilience, while analyzing modes of representations of Guadeloupean identities, from the unattributed and undated ID photograph of the author's paternal grandmother to Augustus Sherman's group portrait of migrant workers on their arrival...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
... as a point of departure Glover's key notions of “ not -Paris” and “ex-centricity” regarding the critical reception of the Spiralists, this essay responds, Why only not -Paris? It argues that equally significant for this particular group of Haitian writers is the fact that they are also not -US ( not -NYC...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 43–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Aaron Kamugisha This article critically appraises the wealth of cultural criticism and epistemological developments in the study of Caribbean societies now increasingly grouped under an emerging discipline termed Caribbean cultural studies. It advances the claim that the critical study of Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 123–134.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Andil Gosine In March 2016, a group of artists and scholars met at York University in Toronto to consider visual arts produced by indenture-descendant creators. Among them were filmmakers Richard Fung and Ian Harnarine, who engaged in a dialogue about their work and responded to inquiries posed...
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in Archive as Offering: Haiti and Historical Possibility
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1 Private Ross E. Melvin, “Sketch of Part of Road Where an Auto Accident Happened,” 10 May 1922. Record Group 125: Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Navy), 1799–1953; National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 2. Onlookers at the Barnett Street Police Station, Montego Bay, where two members of the Rastafarian group in Coral Gardens were being held. Later, many innocent people were detained and mistreated there in acts of collective punishment of Rastas. © 1963 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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