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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Workers, at the time headed by Mexican communist Vicente Lombardo Toledano. 33 In June 1952, the Caribbean branch of ORIT (CADORIT) was established, and one of its first mandates was to assist in the development of the Jamaican National Workers Union (NWU). 34 During the early 1950s, CADORIT...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 164–180.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the university. Four editions of the literary magazine Focus , edited by Edna Manley and published in 1943, 1948, 1956, and 1960, offer another register of the decade that potentially proves useful for revisiting and rethinking the Jamaican literary 1950s. 57 Literary magazines were important sites...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of a charged, explicit, and heightened sense of racial identity among young black Britons. This essay seeks to reflect on the influence of Jamaican 1970s on the creation of a second diaspora. In so doing, it utilizes examples of British reggae music, a photograph by Vanley Burke, and the poetry of Linton Kwesi...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the “sound-system” to the networks of local small-retail grocery shops, ubiquitous across Jamaica, that were owned and operated by Jamaican Chinese shopkeepers and examines how they formed material infrastructures. In charting the hardwiring of speakers and how the sociality of the shop housed the production...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 143–163.
Published: 01 November 2020
...O’Neil Lawrence; Deborah A. Thomas The “creation” of Jamaican national identity owed much to the artistic movement that preceded and followed independence in 1962. While depictions of the peasantry, particularly male laborers, have become iconic representations of “true” Jamaicans, the scholarship...
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in Disciplining the Unruly (National) Body in Staceyann Chin's The Other Side of Paradise
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2014
Editorial cartoon by Clovis Brown, featuring Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness, US president Barack Obama, and British prime minister David Cameron. Jamaica Observer , 9 December 2011.
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 10. The Jamaican government destroying Shanty Town, off Foreshore Road (renamed Marcus Garvey Drive), in 1966. © 1966 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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in Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2018
Figure 1 Albert Chong, Addressing the Chinese-Jamaican Business Community , 1992. Gelatin silver print, 30 × 40 in.
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 125–139.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Donna P. Hope Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Passa Passa: Interrogating Cultural
Hybridities in Jamaican Dancehall
Donna P. Hope
Introduction
Contemporary dancehall culture is a cultural site for the creation and dissemination of symbols
and ideologies that reflect and legitimize...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 161–173.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Bibi Bakare-Yusuf Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Clashing Interpretations in
Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
In recent decades, dancehall music appears to have surpassed its predecessor, reggae, as
Jamaica’s major cultural export. In her recent collection...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 193–204.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Carolyn Cooper Small Axe Incorporated 2006 At the Crossroads—
Looking for Meaning in Jamaican
Dancehall Culture: A Reply
Carolyn Cooper
In the introduction to Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large I make my position
clear:
In the present study I document...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 7–23.
Published: 01 July 2011
... a Queer
Performance Hermeneutic in
Jamaican Dancehall
Nadia Ellis
In December 2005 I arrived in a Jamaica still in the throes of the dancehall dance craze. Dance,
especially male dance, had been the most prominent trend in dancehall for a few years to
that point. In retrospect...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 107–117.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of the past role of whites in a slave society, the dilemma of white Jamaicans is undeniable. Also undeniable, however, is the fact that the costs of being white are outweighed by the benefits, as the white Jamaican writer Anthony C. Winkler acknowledges in two autobiographical works. Winkler experiences those...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Rhonda Frederick This essay asks, What can a romance novel teach us about being in a Caribbean diaspora? Can this genre offer insight into how Jamaicans living outside of Jamaica come to know themselves as “Jamaican” and as part of a Jamaican diaspora? It tackles these questions by putting the form...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 17–45.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Winston James Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Becoming the People’s Poet:
Claude McKay’s Jamaican Years, 1889-1912
Winston James
INTRODUCTION
n July 1912 Claude McKay, two months short of his twenty-third birthday, left his
island home for study in the United States. McKay would...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2003
...David Scott Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Political Rationalities of the
Jamaican Modern
David Scott
Clientelism in the Th ird World is more than a device to win votes for competing parties. It is a
mechanism by which to institutionalize a power structure.
—Carl...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Krista A. Thompson Small Axe Incorporated 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Black Skin, Blue Eyes : Visualizing Blackness in Jamaican Art, 1922 1944 Krista A. Thompson From the opposite end...
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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 (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 56–82.
Published: 01 July 2010
.... 2010 The Public Sphere and Jamaican
Anticolonial Politics: Public Opinion,
Focus, and the Place of the Literary
Raphael Dalleo
The 1930s and 1940s are pivotal to accounts of the history of anticolonial nationalism through-
out the Caribbean, and especially in Jamaica. It has become...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Donette Francis Jamaican fiction published in the 1960s was fundamentally pessimistic. These writings drew from regional ontologies of religious millenarianism, colonial abjection, and racial damnation, as well as of existentialist philosophies of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, to offer...
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