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Lobster Hand
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 237–242.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Alexia Arthurs Poetry: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, “Lunar Planting” (first place), Lynn Sweeting, “Coming Back to Life” (second place); short fiction: Sharon Millar, “The Dragonfly's Tale” (first place), Alexia Arthurs, “Lobster Hand” (second place) © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 Her hand...
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Published: 01 March 2015
Brella Krew , from the Fambily series, 2013. Mixed-media, hand-embellished photo tapestry; 78 × 285 in. Collection of 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville. Photo courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 11 The right-hand image of Coolies, Man and Woman, Jamaica , a stereograph by Carleton H. Graves, 1899. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
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“The Intuitive Lianas of My Hands”: Rebuilding Negritude as Embodied Ecopoetics
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 17–31.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Jane Hiddleston Frantz Fanon famously reacted to Jean-Paul Sartre’s appropriation of Negritude with the assertion that he would rebuild it with his hands, working intuitively to regrow Black subjectivity as if in the coiling form of the liana tree. Fanon’s reference to the “lianes intuitives...
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Accessories/Accessaries; or, What's in Your Closet?
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 97–110.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Petrine Archer This article explores the repeating patterns of the subordinate colonial relationship using a handful of pictures that make links between slavery, pageantry, racial uplift, Jamaica's dancehall culture, and dress. Through a truncated discussion about the body, emasculation, clothing...
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Sewing Up Questions of Cultural Identity: Lorna Goodison's From Harvey River
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of Jamaican national becoming by insisting on the creative power of Jamaica's racial and cultural heterogeneity. On the one hand, the memoir honors domesticity as the necessary and valuable work of nurturing family and community while maintaining discreet lines of demarcation between the persona...
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Much Too Much Selfishness: Holding Neoliberalism at a Distance in Rural Jamaica
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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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Material and Immaterial Bodies: Diaspora Studies and the Problem of Culture, Identity, and Race
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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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Oceans Apart
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 41–49.
Published: 01 March 2009
... those preserved in family albums and the throwaway colloquialisms of letters, intimate voices that are often overlooked. Hand tinted silver prints and Xeroxes, & text.11x 24x20inch. Small Axe Incorporated 2009 Oceans Apart
Ingrid Pollard
The Atlantic Ocean as physical and psychic space...
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“Only His Hat Is Left”: John Jacob Thomas, Eric Roach, and the Nationalist's Dilemma
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 174–185.
Published: 01 July 2011
... monograph Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry (2008). The positions Smith and Breiner ascribe to Thomas and Roach, respectively, articulate an enduring Caribbean contradiction between an aspiration to erudition on the one hand and the urgency of self-representation on the other...
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What Times Are These? Visual Art and Social Crisis in Postcolonial Jamaica
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 164–184.
Published: 01 July 2009
... and the current escalation in violent crime. Both moments have also coincided with intense cultural activity, in which the lived experience of these crises commands centre stage. This essay explores how this has resulted in visual art works that record, critique or seek to transcend the crisis at hand and how...
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Aesthetics of “Ex-centricity” and Considerations of “Poverty”
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 166–176.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the Spiralist aesthetic's illustration of why Haiti fascinates a “Western” sensibility. Grosso modo , the review outlines the existing narratives of “Haiti” as revolving around the polarities of, on the one hand, its extreme “poverty” and, on the other, its reputation for tremendous artistic production...
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Lunar Planting
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 203–210.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné Poetry: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, “Lunar Planting” (first place), Lynn Sweeting, “Coming Back to Life” (second place); short fiction: Sharon Millar, “The Dragonfly's Tale” (first place), Alexia Arthurs, “Lobster Hand” (second place) © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 I...
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Coming Back to Life
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 211–222.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Lynn Sweeting Poetry: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, “Lunar Planting” (first place), Lynn Sweeting, “Coming Back to Life” (second place); short fiction: Sharon Millar, “The Dragonfly's Tale” (first place), Alexia Arthurs, “Lobster Hand” (second place) © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 The harbour...
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The Dragonfly's Tale
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 223–236.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Sharon Millar Poetry: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, “Lunar Planting” (first place), Lynn Sweeting, “Coming Back to Life” (second place); short fiction: Sharon Millar, “The Dragonfly's Tale” (first place), Alexia Arthurs, “Lobster Hand” (second place) Was this how it happened? That you crossed lines so...
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IMPRINT
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 123–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of self as Caribbean people. Washerwoman (2018), the sculpture featured in the essay, is the product of an attempt to know our progenitors through the labor of our hands, silently working alongside theirs, across temporalities. We mourn the blurred edges of their photographs and pay homage to the mundane...
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in Thomas Thistlewood’s Libidinal Linnaean Project: Slavery, Ecology, and Knowledge Production
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Published: 01 March 2018
Figure 1 Joscelyn Gardner, Bromeliad penguin (Abba) , 2011, from the Creole Portraits III: “bringing down the flowers . . .” series, 2009–11. Hand-colored stone lithograph on frosted mylar, 24 in. × 36 in. Used by permission of the artist. Photograph by John Tamblyn
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Published: 01 November 2015
Figure 3. Mark Bradford, A Truly Rich Man Is One Whose Children Run into His Arms Even When His Hands Are Empty , 2008. Photomechanical reproductions, acrylic gel medium, comic-book paper, carbon paper, acrylic paint, caulking, and additional mixed media on canvas; 102 × 144 in. Courtesy Hauser
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Mango Feast
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 170–176.
Published: 01 July 2017
... and spat the rest out onto the floor. Ram stared at the weeping trembling pile of flesh that was his grandmother. Jag caught her wrist with his other hand and wrenched the kettle away from her. She grabbed for his neck and squeezed until he dropped the kettle and fell to his knees. She scrambled...
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Watching Death …
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 165–172.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... Later after he chewed each spoonful carefully and ate the last piece of meat he would sit back and smile at me. Then he would reach for a cup almost the size of my forearm and as wide as the palm of his hands, the giant cup. Then he would sit and drink and always almost as if he had remembered something...
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