...Shona N. Jackson Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the Routes to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean Shona N. Jackson Despite the physical and often linguistic crossings that occur between Latin America and the Caribbean, the largest border between the two is not language...

...Michael O. West Walter Rodney's expulsion from Jamaica in October 1968, and its consequences, had important implications elsewhere in the Caribbean, especially in Rodney's native Guyana. Recently discovered documents shed much light on the Guyanese reaction to those events, and more broadly...

...D. Alissa Trotz; Nigel Westmaas This essay offers a modest attempt to read Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) alongside the political tragedy that was unfolding in 1960s Guyana, which Rodney was thinking and writing about before and during his Dar es Salaam years. The authors...

... of Amerindian Environments under ‘Cooperative Socialism’ in Guyana,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103, no. 5 (2013): 1242–65; Trotz and Roopnaraine, “Angles of Vision,” 235–53; Melissa Ifill, The Indigenous Struggle: Challenging and Undermining Capitalism and Liberal Democracy (PhD diss...

...D. Alissa Trotz Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana D. Alissa Trotz INTRODUCTION he immediate aftermath of the 1997 and 2001 elections in Guyana was marked by violence, most of which targeted members...

... modernity in Guyana. Specifically, it uses Mittelholzer's narrative as a means to approach these issues in environmental terms. The novel's amalgamation of Euro-American gothic tropes and Guyanese folklore, the author argues, registers the “bewitching” impact of the sugar industry on the socioecological...

...Roshini Kempadoo Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Imaging historical traces: Virtual Exiles project [2000] [httpwww.mediascot.org/exiles/ve/index.html] Roshini Kempadoo Virtual Exiles is a digital print and Internet artwork, based on material from Guyana I collected and created between...

... and Hermine Huiswoud were born in Suriname and Guyana, respectively, and would later move to the United States, becoming active members of the Communist Party of the USA. Later they moved and worked in the Netherlands. Theirs were lives of international political activism, in a shared, if sometimes...

... peoples have indigenized in the Caribbean and replaced the region's first aboriginal peoples. In particular, Guyana's debates over the Amerindian Act illustrate the profoundly colonial implications of adopting “indigenization” as actual state practice. 3 For example, in May 2008 Dominica Carib Chief...

...Dorothy C. Rowe Born in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1936, a resident of London in the 1950s, and dividing his time between London and New York since the late 1960s, Frank Bowling is one of the foremost artists of his generation. As a pioneer of abstraction during the 1960s, his work as both...

... Socialist Guyana—Principles and Programme of the Working People’s Alliance. Th e program stated that the long-term objective of the party was to build “genuine socialism” on the basis of popular consent and on the sub- sequent creation of a classless society.³ Underlining these long...

... of Guyana: one hopes he will maintain the fi re in his verse in less fi ery circumstances James contends that Carter’s Ipoetry fi nds its voice and its home in the Guyanese anticolonial movement, and James’s “hope” suggests that there may not be a clear role for such poetry in the newly indepen- dent...

.... THIS ISSUE OF SMALL AXE IS DEDICATED TO EUSI KWAYANA, GUYANESE PATRIOT, AND CULTURAL AND POLITICAL THINKER. small axe Number 15 March 2004 Guyana: The Present against the Past CONTENTS Preface David Scott v Between Despair...

...Percy C. Hintzen Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Creoleness and Nationalism in Guyanese Anticolonialism and Postcolonial Formation Percy C. Hintzen n analysis of the postcolonial formation of Guyana (formerly the English colony of British Guiana) and its relationship...

... Mangrove Destruction in Guyana, South America: Averting an Environmental Catastrophe in the Making,” Ecological Engineering , no. 47 (October 2012): 268–73. 33 A mangrove conservation campaign was tried by engineers in the early 1980s, when people sourced mangrove bark as fuel to cope with high...

... claimed general relevance for his theoretical framework and this is what generates this analysis. Th e theme of this essay is a dual one: it is, one, an account of Jagan’s nationalist discourse during the ini- tial period of Guyana’s trek from colonial territory to postcolonial state through, two...

... by critics, art institutions, national governments, and other artists—in other words, a scholarly reflection emergent from the traditions of a British art history discipline that is mostly based on a selection of an older generation of Caribbean artists from Trinidad and Guyana. It is on this basis...

...Hew Locke Small Axe Incorporated 2004 The House of Windsor Hew Locke y recent work revolves around the royal family, based in part on childhood mem- ories of primary school in Guyana, where decorating/defacing the Queen’s image on our exercise books was a severely...

... Small Axe Incorporated 2004 The House of Windsor Hew Locke y recent work revolves around the royal family, based in part on childhood mem- ories of primary school in Guyana, where decorating/defacing the Queen’s image on our exercise books was a severely...