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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 34–45.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Edouard Duval Carrié Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Life in the North Caribbean
Edouard Duval Carrié
It’s a long and quite complicated story, that of Haiti, and my place in it. In my case and in that
of my island nation the motto is how do we avert tragedy when in a whirlwind...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 22–39.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in their eyes and cried. A few could express themselves like that. But the majority just sat in the doors of their dwellings staring out at life. 14 Moreover, the ambivalence that characterizes “At Last I Am Free” and Hurston's text can be read, I would argue, as evidence of an implicitly gendered zone...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., and an unavoidable loss of human life.” The “pamphlet or tract” under discussion in this 1859 article in the Colonial Standard and Jamaica Despatch is a sixteen-page extract from a journal kept by Captain Edolphus Swinton on board the British ship Salsette. 1 In March 1858 the Salsette sailed from...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
Published: 01 July 2022
... with the abandonment of estates, the sight of which would instill in any traveler “a feeling of desolation.” But suddenly, the “wild growths” give way to a new order of banana palms being worked by a “larger and thriftier” people, the sight of which breathes life into a landscape of waste and decay. “The old order...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., 1993). 12 See Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm (New York: MCD, 2022). 11 Ratchetry is the practice of “ratchet” behavior. Ratchet , here, stands for everyday banal, sensual, forward, and “deviant” (from White...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Fatoumata Seck This essay explores the early work of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain in Congo. Despite Comhaire-Sylvain being renowned as Haiti’s first woman anthropologist, her life and extensive scholar-ship in Africa have been largely overlooked. Given her unique positionality and formal training...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of in-betweenness and in/security in relation to more “leisurely” pursuits, notably, tourism. By revisting Stephanie Black’s critically acclaimed documentary film Life and Debt and retheorizing the concept of critical conversations, this essay analyses the ways representations of in/security have framed media...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 78–95.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Greg Beckett Set against the backdrop of soaring inflation, rolling blackouts, fuel riots, roadblocks, and antigovernment protests, this essay explores a new language of political crisis in Haiti that draws on the concept of unlivable life. In so doing, it seeks to directly connect political...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 76–84.
Published: 01 July 2016
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 72–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in rural Jamaica. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 Caribbean Organic Intellectual:
The Legacy and Challenge
of Erna Brodber’s Life Work
Catherine John
At the heart of novelist and historian Erna Brodber’s work is an examination of the slavery
experience, its aftereffects, and a comparison...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 211–222.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Lynn Sweeting Poetry: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, “Lunar Planting” (first place), Lynn Sweeting, “Coming Back to Life” (second place); short fiction: Sharon Millar, “The Dragonfly's Tale” (first place), Alexia Arthurs, “Lobster Hand” (second place) © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 The harbour...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of the life-world produces a relationship of intersubjectivity and a multidimensional view of history. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 my journey towards self-acceptance determines my allegories. in painting the world around me, i search for an independent figurative vision of what is inwardly known...
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in Bleeding, Wailing, and Hypnosis: The Words and Images of Caroline “booops” Sardine
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2013
Figure 2. Caroline “booops” Sardine, livicayted to life , 1997. Acrylic on canvas, 60 in. × 16 in. Photograph by Jane Bryce
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in “He Was a Lion, and He Would Destroy Much”: A Speculative School of Revolutionary Politics
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 2 Marielle Plaisir, Aponte Lámina 23 , from The Book of Life , 2017 (variation on Lámina 23 from Aponte’s book of paintings). Inks, gold pigment, and pencil on 350g paper; 20 × 15 in. From the Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom exhibit; Little Haiti Cultural Center, New York
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Nadi Edwards This paper examines the representation of contemporary figures of “bare life” in the context of postcolonial Jamaican modernity. The representation of Kingston as a dystopia is one such trope of bare life, as evident in Kamau Brathwaite's 1994 prose poem, Trench Town Rock...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Timothy J. Reiss This essay tracks Kamau Brathwaite’s life, his poetic and critical writing, and his travails and thinking, from youth and early career—in Barbados, England, Ghana, and the Caribbean, but mainly from his arrival at New York University in 1991—through his retirement in 2013...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 78–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Karwan Fatah-Black This essay explores the renewed attention for Anton de Kom and the ways this engagement revisits older questions about his life and work and opens new avenues for inquiry. This renewed interest has led to new forms of appropriation: the use of his likeness and his name...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Wayne Modest; Susan Legêne This essay is an introduction to a special section that focuses on the life and work of Anton de Kom, and especially on his seminal 1934 Wij slaven van Suriname . It forms part of a larger project that explores how a Caribbean intellectual tradition can be thought...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and aporias that find their coherence in his continual call to an emerging form of transcendence. Struck by Gordon’s analysis of denial, responsibility, bad faith, and the blues, the author does not explain or summarize Gordon’s thought but rather uses it as a base for an exploration of the psychic life...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... between Indigenous spatio-temporalities of life and experience as they underwent forced conformity with a homogeneous, “empty” time and space underpinning Eurocentric ideas of capitalist progress as well as the advancement of communism/socialism; a critique of unilinear Development models; and How Europe...
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