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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 200–211.
Published: 01 March 2010
... jeremiads about how the settlement and exploitation of the Americas exemplified the darkness that is present in men's souls. Brown's vision of a Jamaica that looked like heaven but which was instead a hell on earth is compelling. I do wonder, however, whether in this hell there may have been some patches...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 125–137.
Published: 01 March 2014
... was criticized for this wave of distress, and the blow to its credibility provoked new interest in alternative strategies. At that time, Jamaica had undergone a long series of adjustments, bringing the national economy into correspondence with the neoliberal approach by shifting more and more responsibility...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 56–76.
Published: 01 July 2015
...James Robertson “Rewriting Dr. No ” reappraises the unexpected success of the first James Bond film and its depictions of colonial Jamaica just prior to independence. Recasting Ian Fleming's novel into a film prompted rewritings and alterations. Some reflect the transition to a script; others...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Alex Benson Claude McKay's “Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture” first saw print in his 1912 volume Songs of Jamaica . Its speaker, whose voice appears in a densely patterned representation of Jamaican Creole, meditates on biological variation and colonial history. Setting the poem against discourses...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 37–53.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Kezia Page Small Axe Incorporated 2006 “What If He Did Not Have a Sister
[Who Lived in the United States
Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother as
Remittance Text
Kezia Page
In a version of this article presented at a West Indian literature conference in 1998, the title
invoked Western...
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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 (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Winnifred Brown-Glaude This essay examines public discussions around skin bleaching in Jamaica and demonstrates that a discourse of pathology is a dominant frame of meaning used to explain this practice. I argue that the practice of bleaching destabilizes popular conceptions of blackness that rely...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 142–162.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Annie Paul In contemporary Jamaica, funerals increasingly revolve around fantasy coffins and designer caskets. This paper attempts to marshal visual and textual information describing recent developments in Jamaican funerals with a view to recording attempts by the Jamaican underclasses to produce...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 16–37.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Curdella Forbes This article addresses a concept of individualism that has emerged in some contemporary Caribbean fictions. I examine the evidence of this in a general way and then with reference to Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter and Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain . I suggest...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 77–92.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Corinna McLeod Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place reveals the subalternity of Antigua as a tourist locale; an identity which undermines Antigua's position as a nation. Through the use of a metafictional discourse, Kincaid's narrator deconstructs colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial myths, thereby...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 93–104.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Michael O. West Walter Rodney's expulsion from Jamaica in October 1968, and its consequences, had important implications elsewhere in the Caribbean, especially in Rodney's native Guyana. Recently discovered documents shed much light on the Guyanese reaction to those events, and more broadly...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 112–134.
Published: 01 March 2009
... utilized by the newly independent country of Jamaica to authorize a new concept of the self that had been marginalized under colonial rule. As a new and different model of achievement, the local and mostly black “ancestral” heroic figures and their attending monuments served to instill a sense of pride...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 164–184.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Veerle Poupeye This essay reflects on how social unrest and violence are responded to in the mainstream visual arts of postcolonial Jamaica. The focus is on two particular moments of crisis: the social unrest and political violence during the Michael Manley administration in the 1970s...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 183–185.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Avram Bornstein Small Axe Incorporated 2001 Dancehall Ethnography in Jamaica
Avram Bornstein
Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica. Norman Stolzoff . Durham:
Duke University Press, 2000. 298 pages.
ude boys and rastas, selectors, sound systems...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 72–94.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Obika Gray Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Predation Politics and the
Political Impasse in Jamaica
Obika Gray
RETHINKING THE IDENTITY OF POWER
he huge and continuing social crisis in Jamaica has occasioned an outpouring of
commentaries, most notably from journalists...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 137–149.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Patrick Bryan Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Aiding Imperialism: White Baptists in
Nineteenth-Century Jamaica
Patrick Bryan
atherine Hall’s study is concerned with the imperial mind, with the crucible in
which the imperial mind was created (in this case Birmingham), and how...
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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 (2 (68)): 24–45.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of “coolie belles.” [email protected] © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Indian indentureship dougla ethnographic photography orientalism Jamaica’s plantation system did not end with the 1834 Slavery Abolition Act despite vocal complaints about idle estates and the financial ruin...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 215–225.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Carolyn Cooper The cantankerous public discourse generated by the author’s bilingual newspaper columns published in the Jamaica Observer (May 1993 to January 1998) and the Jamaica Gleaner (March 2013 to the present) illustrates the conservative, neocolonial language ideology that still prevails...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 103–114.
Published: 01 July 2024
... a “brand.” I could be distinguished from others in my discipline by the subjects of my research and teaching and my preoccupation with interconnected fields of inquiry that are often perceived as discrete: the politics of gender, race, class, popular music, fashion, language, and literature in Jamaica...
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