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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...
Journal Article
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 (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Through a reading of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place , the essay highlights how the market logics of mid-nineteenth-century imperial liberalization continued to animate new forms of West Indian erasure well into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While Kincaid deploys arguments of imperial neglect...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 172–176.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Curdella Forbes Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Writing the Autobiography of My Father
Curdella Forbes
Mr. Potter, Jamaica Kincaid. New York: Farrer, Strauss and Giroux, 2002. ISBN: 0374214948
man, hungry, unable to read or write, curses God. He dies violently, still curs-
ing...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Harold McDermott Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Writing the Autobiography of My Father
Curdella Forbes
Mr. Potter, Jamaica Kincaid. New York: Farrer, Strauss and Giroux, 2002. ISBN: 0374214948
man, hungry, unable to read or write, curses God. He dies violently, still curs...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Writing the Autobiography of My Father
Curdella Forbes
Mr. Potter, Jamaica Kincaid. New York: Farrer, Strauss and Giroux, 2002. ISBN: 0374214948
man, hungry, unable to read or write, curses God. He dies violently, still curs-
ing, howling...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 64–79.
Published: 01 March 2005
... strategies for countering and overcoming the
publishing industry’s deafness to our voices. With this in mind I will examine the work
of two prominent Caribbean women writers—Jamaica Kincaid and Edwidge Danticat.
Kincaid’s elevated status in the literary world and the U.S. academy...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 80–96.
Published: 01 June 2006
...: traveler behavior and/or performance in response to the industry. The opening excerpt from Jamaica Kincaid s nonfiction A Small Place reveals the tension between 1. Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place (New York: Farrar, 1988), 12 13. 2. I am specifically thinking of studies like Frank Fonda Taylor s To Hell...
Journal Article
The Operations of the Closet and the Discourse of Unspeakable Contents in Black Fauns and My Brother
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Caribbean: Alfred Mendes’s Black Fauns (1935) and Jamaica Kincaid’s My
Brother (1997).1 These books are more than sixty years apart and are very different in terms
of their plots and styles. Yet they intersect in their thematic explorations of sexual identities
that do not conform to the heterosexual...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... during the colonial era and the slave trade, embodying a latent intercultural layering that very much requires a spiritual act of understanding, Auerbach's intellectus spiritualis . 21 This figure also makes an unexpected appearance in Jamaica Kincaid's 1996 novel The Autobiography of My Mother...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., contrasts picturesque views of relaxing tourists and an “impossibly” blue Caribbean sea with slow pan shots of low-income West Kingston streets from the vantage point of an “urban safari” tour arranged by an all-inclusive hotel. The voiceover is adapted from Jamaica Kincaid’s novel, A Small Place , which...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 185–193.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of historical inclusion. In Samuel’s reading of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place , she takes us to a scene in which Kincaid’s speaker considers the books that the tourist addressee brought with her to muse over through her Antiguan vacation. One book, notably, is an economic history, and of a particular kind...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 169–172.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Belief in Ghana, Nigeria,
and Sierra Leone (London: Longman, 1970).
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as Wilson Harris, Sylvia Wynter, and Jamaica Kincaid. Harris’s treatment of character
as “nested” consciousnesses transmuting with the power of Anansi-/Legba-/Eshu-like
divinities, his understanding of the material...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 June 2008
... manage the apparent contradiction of “thinking highly
of a civilization that held him in very low esteem” (62). This is the same unresolved problem
that Jamaica Kincaid encountered in her father’s insistence on wearing always the same brown
2. See José Lezama Lima, La...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 1–21.
Published: 01 July 2012
... could not survive the splitting Kristeva can afford. 52 As Fanon recognized, and Harris and Kincaid illustrate, the West Indian postcolonial subject is given his mother as the colonial writer of interiority whose message, precisely the message for which we have killed the master, travels both...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 144–153.
Published: 01 March 2012
.... As Jamaica Kincaid puts it, “Once you cease to
be a master, once you throw off your master’s yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you
are just a human being.”19
Kincaid also has something to say about enslaved people, whose sufferings before
emancipation offered a “noble...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 160–167.
Published: 01 July 2010
... posthumous condemnation of the repression of homosexuals by Fidel Cas-
tro’s socialist regime; and Jamaica Kincaid’s vivid documentation of her brother’s battle with
AIDS, denouncing the societal ignorance of HIV/AIDS in Antigua. In Goodison’s own Jamaica,
Rosie Stone reveals how, as “the good wife...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Skin , to Jamaica Kincaid's portrayal of familial alienation and strained parent-child relationships in My Brother , as well as these authors' eventual exile because of the legacies of colonialism, economic realities, and difficult family relationships. 3 In contrast, The Other Side of Paradise...
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Journal Article
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 June 2008
... Kincaid and the Writing of
New Worlds (2008). She has recently co-edited (with Joseph Young) two collections: Erasing
Public Memory: Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas (2007); and Race and
the Foundations of Knowledges: Cultural Amnesia in the Academy (2006).
José F. Buscaglia...
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