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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 71–82.
Published: 01 October 2008
... in her work, the landscape she creates, and the people in it. If home, as the article argues, has always been Haiti for this writer, the two selected works expose the ambiguous, enigmatic character of this location. ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 Home Is Where the Heart...
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Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 4 Study for Home III , 2020 Charcoal, pastel, and graphite on wood with wood shards 9 × 11.5 in | 22.9 × 29.2 cm
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Published: 01 July 2017
This is a walk I take in the mornings, near my home. The road is lined with Royal Palms. These trees bear flowers that are held in podlike bracts. The pods start out green and pliable, then they dry up, hanging on the tree until they finally fall to the ground. I collect them because I am attracted
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in “Freak Letters”: Tracing Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Panama Canal Archive
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2019
Figure 3 “Typical home of West Indian laborer, Golden Green,” Panama Canal Zone, ca. 1908. Photograph by Ernest Hallen. National Archives and Records Administration Still Pictures Department.
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
... the outsider in the region. Focusing primarily on Indians, the essay explores the tropes of the “home and the world” in which “otherness” emerges as metaphors in the fictional works of Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World which resonates in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas . The `Other...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 59–77.
Published: 01 July 2011
...D. Alissa Trotz While discussions of transnational migration now offer rich studies of the embodied transgression of territorial boundaries, empirical investigations in the social sciences have largely tended to be preoccupied with the relations sustained between origin/home/departure...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Paul Joseph López Oro This essay uses Kamau Brathwaite’s conceptualizations of the “inner plantation” and “neglected Maroons” in his field-making 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” to meditate on the multiple meanings of home within Garifuna political subjectivity. St. Vincent holds...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 20–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of the Chinese in the Caribbean in the early twentieth century, loses connections to the language, history, and land of his birth as he forges an identity in his new home. In an illumination of a history not explored, The Pagoda , with its multiple crossings of gender, race, and desire, focuses our attention...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 203–214.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Figure 4 Study for Home III , 2020 Charcoal, pastel, and graphite on wood with wood shards 9 × 11.5 in | 22.9 × 29.2 cm ...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 154–166.
Published: 01 October 2007
...; the importance of bringing sex to our engagement of the erotic and to our experience of the Sacred; and the urgency of addressing the analytic and political fissures between Caribbean feminists at home and those abroad . It ends by underscoring the need for a collective politics that re-imagines our deep...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 135–156.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., these migrants brought with them a sense of dignity, `good grooming', aspiration and desires for social respectability as remnants of a `colonial time' as suggested by Richard Wilk. The front rooms they created when they eventually acquired homes was based on the Victorian parlour of the Caribbean colonial elite...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
... function as theoretical categories of lesser priority in the discussion of a racial diaspora imaginary, despite the hypervisibility of certain notions of black masculinity and femininity in popular cultural forms that travel between home and abroad. With readings of one canonical diaspora text, Frantz...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... a selection of (semi)autobiographical 1970s-based literary works such as Anthony C. Winkler’s Going Home to Teach , Brian Meeks’s Paint the Town Red , and Margaret Cezair-Thompson’s The True History of Paradise (and interweaving Shara McCallum’s This Strange Land ), this essay examines some shortcomings...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 177–184.
Published: 01 July 2015
... “out of time” and behind the pace of modernity. In contrast, Wainwright's text argues for an understanding of Caribbean art as reflecting the immediacy of a Caribbean present, with its particular relation to the circulation of Caribbean works and artists between home and diaspora. © Small Axe, Inc...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 72–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Catherine John This article is an in-depth interview with the writer. The interview is prefaced by an analysis of the significance of Erna Brodber's historical and sociological texts, as well as her novels, whcih function as the backdrop for her community activism in the Woodside village, her home...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 39–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Elvira Pulitano This interview addresses some of the most important issues explored in the fiction and nonfiction of Edwidge Danticat, such as migration, exile, home, language, Dyaspora, and the connection between stories and human rights action. The interview also discusses Danticat's activist...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 243–262.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., calling attention to the damage done to women. The phallic bones in Bone Yard wag, flaunting their masculine power, but death, burial, and the end/beginning are part of the journey. From the ashes of the Phoenix, we leap into life and go home...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Tao Leigh Goffe This essay focuses on artwork that centers family photographs and home movies as a point of departure to trouble the conventional family album in order to narrate a story about Caribbean Chinese kinship. In the art examined, personal visual archives are used to respond to the lacuna...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 9. A section of Back-a-Wall, in West Kingston, in 1962. The destruction of poor people's homes began here in 1963. © 1962 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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in La Caldosa : Afro-Lesbian Space-Making and Transnational Politics in Havana
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 4 Ana’s Utopic Map , 2016. Cambió de lugar, puerta a calle (nueva vivienda, próxima al mar) (Change of place, a door to the street [new home close to the sea]).
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