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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 63–67.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Andil Gosine This essay introduces the special section “Art After Indenture,” in which five scholars characterize and respond to eight contemporary visual artists who are descendants of indentured workers. The author also raises questions about the commemoration of indentureship and calls...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 81–93.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Nalini Mohabir This essay engages with visual cues that point to an afterlife of indentureship across a culture, history, and economics of labor, evident as a felt presence or absence in photographic representations of Caribbean persons. The author re-views photographs (both archival and artistic...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Jordache A. Ellapen This essay focuses on South African artist Sharlene Khan's 2016 multimedia project When the Moon Waxes Red in order to examine political culture in postapartheid South Africa. At the heart of Khan's project is the Indian indentureship experience. The author argues...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Joy Mahabir Styles of Indo-Caribbean jewelry created during indentureship have been continually reproduced up to the present. Exploring the demand and desire for these styles, this essay suggests that there is a communal aesthetic underlying the production of the jewelry, influenced...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2014
.../2010/november_17_2010/diaspora.htm , para. 8 (italics mine). 13 The interlinked infrastructure of indentureship which relied on railways, ports, ships, and state institutions, is detailed in David Hollett, Passage from India to El Dorado: Guyana and the Great Migration (London: Associated...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
... that the system of indentureship needed. In “Remarks,” appended to Captain Swinton’s journal, Mrs. Swinton highlights her husband’s acts of kindness toward the emigrants, insisting that he acted so not because it was his duty but “through humanity and in the interest of [the ship’s] owners.” 2 In his...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., highlighting how this literature has long drawn on matrilineal genealogies to examine indentureship, its afterlife, and its significance for contemporary Caribbean feminisms. Critically seen, a focus on mutilated womanhood as individually experienced overshadows decades of Indo-Caribbean women’s empowerment...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
...) Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Gaiutra Bahadur Indian indentureship gender violence guyana In the middle of Georgetown, Guyana’s capital city, sits a monument garden established in 1988 to commemorate 150 years of Indian arrival. A second monument, located in Berbice...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of three wreckages: the ship landings of European colonizers and the arriving ships of enslaved and, later, indentured peoples. [email protected] © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 visual arts indentureship feminist art environmental crisis the Caribbean A wreck is always destructive...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Amerindian and Afro-and Indo-creole women, it argues that these imbricated violences may better be understood through a feminist analytic and praxis of relational difference . A departure point that brings the scaffold histories and legacies of colonialism, dispossession, slavery, and indentureship...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 181–191.
Published: 01 March 2009
... rural Trinidad, through the memories of slave and
indentureship journeys, to the urbanscapes of London.
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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., these relations do not point toward a politics of multiracial solidarity in the late-colonial British West Indies. Rather, slavery and indentureship were interconnected projects of racial capitalism. Suggesting neither colony nor Dominion, the barrack yard is a “shelter” for African and Indian working people...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 80–88.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Suzanne C. Persard This series of poems operates somewhere between the Bronx, Half Way Tree (Kingston), and memory. Indian indentureship in Jamaica is epistemologically eclipsed; queer death is unmemorialized; an opening of sugar packets evokes the violence of empire. These poems reckon with loss...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
Published: 01 July 2022
... workers that photographs create is informed by even as it reinforces a colonial order of racial segregation. By identifying the photographic traces of Indians’ indentureship, this essay introduces time and motion into still photography that reduces Indian lives to single ethnographic instances. It also...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of which we are still in the throes of understanding. Warner-Lewis’s focus on indentureship (which is not often discussed in terms of the African continent) and on African ethnicities has deepened our sense of the impact of later nineteenth-century migrations from Africa on the complex landscape...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 164–166.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in the Bronx, New York, is a queer scholar, essayist, and poet with Indo-Caribbean roots from Kingston, Jamaica. Her poem “Elegy: 1838,” a series of haikus on Indian indentureship, was featured as part of a profile in 2014 by the Smithson-ian. Currently she is a doctoral student in women’s, gender...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and Interventions. Her research focuses on indentureship and diaspora. Along with Ronald Cummings, she is working on a book project that considers the genre of the long interview as critical and narrative method in Caribbean Studies. 196 Contributors ROBIN MYERS is a Mexico City based poet and translator. Her...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Caribbean and the Indian Ocean world. She is currently working on her first book manuscript that engages the historical archive and cultural productions on Indian indentureship to offer a connected history of race and caste and its significance for colonial capitalism after emancipation in the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 239–242.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., the Boston Review, and the Amerasia Journal. She is a founding coeditor of the Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies. Peter JAMes hudson is an associate professor of African American studies and history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 209–211.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of indentureship. Her writing has appeared in Small Axe, Macomère, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Habitat International, Interventions , and Ex Plus Ultra ; in the edited collection Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses (2010...
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