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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 40–51.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw Small Axe Incorporated 2005 My Love Is Like a Rose: Terror, Territoire, and the Poetics of Marie Chauvet Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw mour, Colère et Foliee is a rare book not only because it is almost impossible to fi nd...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 109–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... on Brazilian racial identities and cultural politics. In conclusion, it proposes that Hall was a thinker whose occasionally preacherlike style indicated an openness to his audience and whose writing was structured like music. But these are still protocols for reading texts and, as such, are not able...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 163–178.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Firelei Báez © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 These images are details of the larger work Memory like Fire Is Radiant and Immutable , 2016; gouache and chine-collé on deaccessioned book pages; installation...
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Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 10 “Return the funds so that Haitians can truly live like humans.” PetroCaribe graffiti, unknown artist, Christophe Avenue, Port-au-Prince, 2020. Photograph by Adler Pierre More
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Published: 01 July 2017
I experiment with them and try to make things out of them, like doing drawings on them, manipulating them into different shapes, curving them among themselves, putting them up to dry, and making drawings of them. More
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Published: 01 July 2017
The work changes, influenced by the landscape, particularly that of my childhood and the drive we took down to Mayaro—not so much the drive but the journey, which can be equated to the journey of your own life. An isolated drive, it is a journey I like to think about a lot, a very important More
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 68–80.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Kevon Rhiney This essay examines the likely impacts global change processes will have on the Caribbean agriculture sector, paying particular attention to the uneven socioeconomic consequences for rural smallholder farmers within the context of an increasingly volatile global marketplace...
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Published: 01 July 2017
the shells inside, so the pods are like wombs that are coated with shells. More
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 46–62.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Kevin Frank Analyzing the ongoing problem of Caribbean racial exploitation, particularly fear signified through one of the most potent Caribbean symbols, dreadlocks, I argue that Medusa's alterity is altered by Rastafarians' snake-like hair, but the transformative power of Rasta dreadlocks...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 157–168.
Published: 01 February 2008
... the colonialist underpinnings of the picturesque subject, to surveying artistic and cultural forays into the particular landscapes, likenesses, and states of consciousness in the modern Caribbean, this essay spawns a view which claims for the region an aesthetic and conceptual insurgency in representational...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 105–114.
Published: 01 November 2009
... resistance to amnesia and the willful reconstitution of an occulted past. Their works, like those of other, non-Francophone artists from the Caribbean or from the diaspora place “identity in the interstices,” stigmatize the caricatured representation of blacks, are frequently founded on historical documents...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 178–187.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Colin Dayan The essays by Avery F. Gordon, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley and Matt Richardson, and Chris Bongie about Colin Dayan's work and thought, in their differing forms and intent, inspire Dayan to do something like a riff on each, and she attempts to capture the gist of each reaction...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
... ). Cultural and linguistic interaction in contact zones or in borderlands of empire like the Caribbean include innovative translators, poets, and theorists of the hispanophone Caribbean diaspora who articulate in-between subjectivity, bilingual poetic forms, and the constant work of cultural translation...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and foreign white woman rather than between Caribbean people of African and Indian descent. King also addresses recent portrayals of Caribbean trans people and of Caribbean women who desire other women, in particular Shani Mootoo's Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab. Several recent court cases related...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kanika Batra This article examines a privately published newsletter, The Jamaica Gaily News , in circulation from 1978 to 1984, as an archive of gay and lesbian community building initiated by the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM). Contending that recent efforts of organizations like the Jamaica Forum...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 83–96.
Published: 01 July 2010
... Barbados.” To this, Julien retorted that gallery audiences were also “real,” and moreover necessary to an artist like himself who seeks to challenge conventional visual expectations of genre in both film and art.By performing a close reading of his short film Encore: Paradise Omeros Redux (2003), while...
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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 (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 108–114.
Published: 01 November 2011
.... Britton recounts some of her memories of time spent with Glissant and his wife, Sylvie, and attempts to give a picture of what he was like as a man: a man for whom the idea of Relation governed both his life and his writing. © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 “Always Changing, while Still Remaining...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 163–172.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Atlantic slavery to the Holocaust, it is that the nakedness and vulnerability of the victim is more likely to lead to fantastical cruelty than to the promotion of liberationist thought. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 History and Catastrophe Sibylle Fischer It is in the days after the 12 January...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 172–180.
Published: 01 March 2018
... the case that the power of an audible, creole technopoetics, as best embodied by dub reggae, can remake our very conception of the human. In addition to dub, the author brings minstrelsy, blues, jazz, and the like into his broader discussion of black engagements with sound technologies, arguing...