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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 41–59.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Faith Smith Small Axe Incorporated 2001 “You Know You’re West Indian if . .
Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer’s
Waiting in Vain
Faith Smith
he moment that makes Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain possible is marked by the
anxieties of a global Caribbean community...
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 5 Aitak Sorahitalab, The Rhino I Know (the Explorer) , from the series The Rhino I Know , 2022. Painted clay, approx. 8" × 4". Courtesy of the artist
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 123–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Shannon Alonzo This visual essay explores a fragment of the journey to know our ancestors in their absence. The pregnant silences of archives, skewed by years of historical erasure and the remnants of colonial legacy, so often obscure our walk toward collective belonging and a deeper understanding...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 50–74.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Anne McClintock The question is still open: what is the purpose of Guantanamo Bay? Why torture people whom the government and the interrogators know are innocent? What kind of U.S. empire now extends its filaments throughout the global gulag of interrogation prisons, torture-ships and internment...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 218–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
... think about ways of knowing (including subject positions, relationships, disciplines) in the Caribbean? How do we best think about ways of writing Caribbean culture (literary modes, social science modes), the languages needed to express what Bilby calls the “ineffable”? To what extent and in what ways...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Tavia Nyong'o This essay reviews two recent publications in the area of black music and sound studies—Julian Henriques's Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing (2011) and Alexander G. Weheliye's Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005)—taking...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
Published: 01 July 2022
... questions what it means to have a productive form of defiance and protest. Overall, the author uses the story of her aunt eating the telegram to demonstrate how Ellis Neyra’s multipoetic sensorial listening could excavate alternative archives and ways of knowing left out of Western modernity. priverar...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Underdeveloped Africa as a predecessor to contemporary decolonial theory—signal an approach to alternative modes of knowing for generating new possibilities for life. © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 [email protected] Published fifteen years after the establishment of postcolonial African...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Nancy Raquel Mirabal The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is the premier center of African American and Afro-diasporic studies. Yet, as the literary scholar Vanessa Valdés argues, we know little of the center’s namesake and his drive to collect and establish a renowned archive...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2012
... but rather rendered them unamplified and mute. The telethon focused on the emotionality of the American popular singers, and overwrote the story of the disaster with an American way of knowing, divorced entirely from Caribbean narratives, histories, and understandings. McAllister crystallizes connections...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 8–26.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of these alternative modes of expression and knowing in the work of contemporary artists. 57 Glissant, Poetics of Relation , 29. 56 For a critique of readings of Caribbean visual art that focus solely on content and message, ignoring questions of aesthetic form and technique, see Wainwright, Timed Out...
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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 (2006) 10 (3): 145–149.
Published: 01 October 2006
..., or if she should turn her back and walk to the end of the road that bring her
there. The truth is no choice make the going any easier is just that one road you know and
the other is a dream you have to make, give it a name and watch it grow into something. One
thing you teach me is that a person have...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 153–163.
Published: 01 July 2012
... know what is imitation, what is reality? In this city, subtract all the sand grains I've swallowed, the maps of moles burned on my back. When I return, my home will know my infidelity: winter will have changed me. At the most inappropriate times I will begin to ask myself...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 79–163.
Published: 01 March 2010
...
The Interview
You Come in Queen Country to Make Trouble?
David Scott: Merle, let’s begin at the beginning. Where in Grenada did you grow up? I know
you were born in Aruba, but you really grew up in Grenada.
Merle Collins: Yes. I grew up in Hermitage.
DS: Which parish is that?
MC: It’s St...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 2007
... and
small axe 22 • February 2007 • p 1–16 • ISSN 0799-0537
| SX22 • Tout Moun ka Pléwé (Everybody Bawling)
says, Meself, I don’t know. And then she comments, But plenty things happen with that Janet
there, wi, leaving me to conclude that so much happened that the coconut tree moving from...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 160–162.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Gabrielle Bellot © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 I The girl the three boys are watching emerge from the river casts a long shadow, noon or night. She has not seen them—and they know she has not seen them. She casts a shadow and a scent, a musk, a magnetism, and the boys who are watching her from...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 170–177.
Published: 01 July 2012
...-bead bracelet to ward off the evil eye. It must be the people who used to live here long-time who give him that name. Maybe in the early days he used to come like a spirit and nobody seeing him and he earn his name under those circumstances, but since we know Ghost, he coming in broad daylight and we...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 106–179.
Published: 01 February 2006
... foundational to a coherent regional conception of
the Caribbean. Indeed, Mintz has in many respects made it possible to know and to thinkk the
Caribbean in the social sciences and humanities: at variance with imperial narratives and against
the authorizing nationalist discourse and insularities...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 223–234.
Published: 01 March 2004
... began preparing the fi sh
Cruel had brought for her, ignoring the ringing phone.
I try fuh call you back fuh tell you I comin.
Th e phone does trip sometimes . . . you know G. T. and T. and they stupidness.
When the beers are fi nished, she takes both bottles...
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