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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 84–94.
Published: 01 November 2023
... difference. The debates at the University of Dar es Salaam in the 1960s and 1970s anchored the course of political engagement. The intellectuals at the Hill, radicalized through discourse and their social environment, found an arena of political relevance in confronting the state directly. 4...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 112–140.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Michael De Gale Small Axe Incorporated 2007 City on the Hill
Michael De Gale
Editor’s Note: Michael DeGale died suddenly on 26 January 2006. When we had met some
months before this he had tentatively agreed to give Small Axe one of his plays for this issue.
I am grateful to his...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Shirley Toland-Dix Sylvia Wynter's 1962 novel, The Hills of Hebron , is both a narrative of the nation and critique of the extant vision of the nation. Writing her novel from the perspective of a theorist, Wynter introduces insights and concepts that she has since developed in her extensive body...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 119–125.
Published: 01 November 2012
... approach her more recent works— The World Is a High Hill (2012), a collection of twelve stories, and “Nothing's Mat,” a novel awaiting its publisher. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 Me and My Head-Hurting Fiction
Erna Brodber
It sometimes bothers me that my children and grandchildren cannot...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 144–160.
Published: 01 July 2018
... refusal” or “refusal from the hills,” provides a generative spatial, performative, and interpretative model. It unhinges the set of signifiers and expectations comprising gendered racial types that reveal two interrelated, (white) imperial anxieties. The first revolves around the gaze and performance...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 175–184.
Published: 01 March 2016
... studies, not only toward sound studies but toward feminist studies. Vazquez's work, alongside that of Edwin Hill, Shana Redmond, and Tsitsi Jaji (among others), pushes black cultural studies in new directions via feminist inquiry and methodologies, as well as via the basic inclusion of women as subjects...
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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 (2008) 12 (2): 15–44.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Robert A. Hill Although little studied or understood, the black impostor occupies an important place in the history of the African diaspora. The present essay examines the imposture of Prince Thomas Mackarooroo, aka Prince Ludwig Menelek of Abyssinia, as an avatar of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Mike Hill This paper examines contemporary debates around the US Census, US National Security Strategy, and various documents of postmodern war doctrine to delineate a mutation in domestic social order that is consistent both with the end of civil rights and with US planetary ambition. At one level...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 50–70.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Robert A. Hill This essay argues that before Garveyism became an ideology in its own right in 1920, and before it began its political ascent in the United States in 1919, Marcus Garvey was exposed during his sojourn in Britain, in 1913–14, to one of the most important social movements...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., covering the expansion of the Garvey movement in sub-Saharan Africa and among Africans living in Europe. As the project's founder and editor in chief, Robert A. Hill, puts it in his general introduction to volume 11, the first in the Caribbean series, “When completed, the three series—American, African...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 178–185.
Published: 01 July 2012
...H. N. Holder “I swear I didn't tell anybody,” Carla protested. “Me neither,” Michael shrugged, staring at the young man who had bound up First Hill intent on seeing the iridescent blue-black boy with wings. Like some, the visitor covered his mouth and ran down the hill, not really believing...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
....” 33 Sylvia Wynter, The Hills of Hebron (London: Jonathan Cape, 1962); George Lamming, Season of Adventure (London: Allison and Busby, 1960), 17. 34 Wynter, “Instant Novel-Now.” For Wynter, Abrahams’s emplotment of the island’s old aristocracy (plantocracy) feels too reminiscent of Hearne’s...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 206–217.
Published: 01 November 2020
... to claim one’s subjectivity, while also confronting the annihilating power of racism. 1 When Robert Hill noted, “If you haven’t read what Garvey said today, I don’t know that you can be a brother at all,” he was warning his audience of the requirements for maintaining one’s status of belonging...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): v–xvi.
Published: 01 June 2008
...
Robert Hill Maureen Warner‑Lewis
George Lamming Sylvia Wynter
small axe project
The Small Axe Project consists of this: to participate both in the
renewal of practices of intellectual criticism in the Caribbean and in the
expansion/revision of the horizons...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., Robert Hill, Richard Iton, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Nikhil Singh, and Faith Smith. 1 Unfortunately, Hazel Carby was not able to participate in the roundtable, but her presence was felt nonetheless. While a roundtable can serve as an opportunity for people to gather around a shared topic and compare...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 54–69.
Published: 01 October 2006
... experience
during the late 1970s.
The LP Forces of Victory took its title from the theme developed by the Race Today Col-
lective, of which LKJ was a prominent member, for the Caribbean Carnival held in London’s
Notting Hill neighborhood in 1978. According to an editorial statement in the Race Today...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 49–64.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Independence in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming); Alejandro Gómez, Le spectre de la révolution noire: L'impact de la révolution haïtienne dans le monde atlantique (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2013); Edgardo Pérez Morales, El gran...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 56–82.
Published: 01 July 2010
... (including W. A. Domingo and Adolphe Roberts)
along with the Public Opinion editors O. T. Fairclough, Frank Hill, and H. P. Jacobs. Accord-
ing to Hart, these debates led to the meeting in August 1938 at which Norman Manley was
appointed chair of the new People’s National Party. Manley...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 127–137.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and shrubs were bathed in a film of reddish-orange light. It covered the valley that lay like a yawn at the foot of the hill, bathed the tall breadfruit trees that beckoned with their hands outstretched, bathed the slender coconut trees that danced in the breeze blowing from the sea, and bathed too the ruins...
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