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Published: 01 July 2021
Figure 1 This essay relies on an oral history interview I conducted with Nancy Morejón on 12 June 2018 in Havana, Cuba. Morejón (right) and I are pictured here. Photograph by the author More
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Published: 01 March 2014
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 7. The largest gathering in the country's history, welcoming H.I.M. Haile Selassie to Jamaica. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. More
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205.
Published: 01 February 2006
...- ally” (that is, against and alongside specific historical moments and contexts) rather than as “instantiation[s] of an abstractly desirable anti-essentialism and cultural hybridity” (164). Puri’s analyses of Myal’s “mulatto aesthetics,” for instance, are explicitly linked to a “history...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Brinda Mehta Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge Brinda Mehta Ramabai Espinet is a prominent Indo-Trinidadian author who has made critical contributions to the field of Indo-Caribbean literature...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 163–176.
Published: 01 June 2007
...: Pantheon, 2004, ISBN: 037542282X Haitian Novels and Novels of Haiti: History, Haitian Writing, and Madison Smartt Bell’s Trilogy Martin Munro Ab s t r a c t : This essay reads Madison Smartt Bell’s Haitian trilogy in the context of contemporary Haitian literature, and considers...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 194–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
... at the Crossroads: The Haitian Revolutionary between History and Fiction Charles Forsdick Ab s t r a c t : Central to Madison Smartt Bell’s trilogy of novels on the Haitian Revolution is the char- acter of Toussaint Louverture. The article considers how Bell’s Toussaint fits into two...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Anthony Bogues Arguing that An Intellectual History of the Caribbean is an important text in the emerging field of Caribbean intellectual history, this essay suggests that missing from this important text is the working through of an intellectual history that grapples with black religious practices...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 112–134.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and confidence in the populace, which in turn gave legitimacy to the new leadership base of the present. Visual displays are part of the social practices of memory that create and reinforce political communities. This article therefore addresses the aesthetic terms by which a “bold” national history, to quote...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Communist Claudia Jones, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008; 311 pages; ISBN 978-0-8223-4116-1 (paper). Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History Kevin Gaines In 1975, writing very much in the moment of global “Black Liberation” struggles emerging out...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., is being overly modest here. 3 To my mind, when completed, the three series should be read together as a documentary expression of the contribution of the global Garvey movement to the moral —indeed, the reparatory —history of the world we live in. In the face of the dead ends of racial justice...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Walter Rodney Small Axe Incorporated 2001 African History in the Service of the Black Liberation Walter Rodney nitially I had written a short supplementary paper to that which was to be presented by Mr. Richard Moore.¹ * erefore, the order having been inverted, it places me...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 150–158.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Rhonda Cobham Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Fishers of Men: Catherine Hall’s Narrative and the Framing of History Rhonda Cobham ood history, like good literature, arrives trailing metaphor, which, like the fi sher- man’s seine in Dennis Scott’s poem “Letters to My Son VIII...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 123–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of history” that are characteristic of the region and yet are frequently silenced from the historical record. 3 Yet, vernacular speech genres such as rumor, gossip, and banter have not received the systematic and sustained analysis they deserve as forms of popular knowledge production. This essay...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 162–177.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Chris Bongie This essay provides an overview of Colin Dayan's work that attends, specifically, to her representations of slave law in Haiti, History, and the Gods and The Law Is a White Dog . It takes as its point of departure Dayan's indictment in the final chapter of Haiti, History, and the Gods...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 49–60.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Andrea N. Douglas Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Facing the Nation: Art History and Art Criticism in the Jamaican Context Andrea N. Douglas n the opening comments for the 2000 Annual National Exhibition, Michael Cooke, then director of museums for the Institute of Jamaica...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Kathleen Donegan This essay concentrates on the relation between song and history in the lives of the enslaved and the afterlives of slavery, particularly by tracing the history of the song “Take Him to the Gulley,” which became known as “the famous slave song of Jamaica.” Thinking alongside...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 69–84.
Published: 01 March 2022
... through its archival system and selective memory commodification. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 colonial archives francophone literature French Caribbean history memory Daniel Maximin In 2020 and 2021, protestors and activists in many parts...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... this work and others and features a unique and rare insight into Philip’s recordkeeping of her literary papers, as well as her long-time engagement with African diasporic histories and the archive of the slave trade. Philip also discusses the Black Lives Matter uprisings in the summer of 2020, following...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
Published: 01 November 2022
... decolonizing knowledge anticolonialism historical memory critical applied history power For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house . They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. —Audre Lorde, 1979 I...