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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 5 Run-a-Bout , 2017; 1969 Schwinn Runabout, chrome-plated machete, flags. Photograph by Chaz Langley.
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in Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 4 Its humor aside, the series never disavows the epic of Cuba Libre, least of all the iconic machete charge. Still from El machete ( The Machete ), dir. Juan Padrón, 1975, episode 3 (cartoon shorts), 6:49 min.
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 138–142.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Nova Gordon-Bell Second Place, Short Fiction © Nova Gordon-Bell 2015 Saturday morning breathes out the walkers and the joggers. As I do my early morning walk-about in the garden, my machete in one hand and coffee mug in the other, I hear their footsteps and see only their heads...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 45–62.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Figure 4 Its humor aside, the series never disavows the epic of Cuba Libre, least of all the iconic machete charge. Still from El machete ( The Machete ), dir. Juan Padrón, 1975, episode 3 (cartoon shorts), 6:49 min. ...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 115–122.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Figure 5 Run-a-Bout , 2017; 1969 Schwinn Runabout, chrome-plated machete, flags. Photograph by Chaz Langley. ...
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in Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 5 An aging Elpidio, without any of his mambí paraphernalia: campesino hat, white linen uniform, machete, or Palmiche. Still from Elpidio Valdés contra el águila y el león (1996)
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 112–134.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the
religious leader to saintly status.
The religiosity of the monument is further developed or emphasized in the rest of the
body. The arms, bent at the elbows, hold a machete with its blade turned downward in the
center of the bare chest that highlights the muscularity of the torso...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... This became the central performance gesture of my work. Once spectators left the site of Rosamond's performance, they were ushered downstairs to enter a lavish party scene filled with sweet-corn cakes, red wine, champagne, and other delights—including a sharp machete. A note instructed them to eat, drink...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 244–253.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and 1917, more than 167 women were killed by intimate partners or would-be intimate partners. Mostly the men attacked with machetes, their tool from the cane fields. Guyana was not the only scene of the crimes. Throughout the sugar colonies, from Trinidad to Fiji, disputes over women led to horrific...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 89–99.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., slams his hand into my chest. He points at the tree with his machete. I walk up to the trunk, shine my pocket torch on it: “CHICKEN COUP!!!” Jackpot. We keep walking and the signs start cropping up everywhere. A torn cardboard box impaled on a sharpened broomstick: “CHICKEN COUP...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 80–88.
Published: 01 July 2019
... fallen short. iii. Machete: fifth limb of indenture. Chop wounds & stab wounds: read every body found with transgression. A woman pities the pandit refusing to convert, who chops off his arm. Bodies, she knows, cannot be holy. Limbs are the least of genealogical spoils. Borders map bodies...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 123–132.
Published: 01 July 2016
...-giddy with excitement, And they had brought their necessary tools Thick posts and machetes—the implements of slaughter. The women came with buckets in their hands. I understood now what they were for, And we the children looked on in awe at this mystery Newly emerged from the unknowable sea...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of his upper back to the point where his shoulders meet, and he carries a machete. He wears similar breeches as the first man, yet his uniform indicates an affiliation with the French infantry. Y cuando los dos niños se entraban a la mordía el papá él decía la verdá', “Agárrense de ahí que no hay...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 197–200.
Published: 01 July 2021
... National Prize for Literature (2001) and is a member of the Caribbean Carbet Prize Jury since 1990, the Cuban Academy of Language since 1999, and the Organization of Women Writers of Africa Advisory Council. Her most significant awards include the Distinction for National Culture, the Replica Machete...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2015
... doesn't mention this in his condensed remark, this is conventionally a fear not of being shot or strangled, or anything so prosaic, but of being vengefully chopped to death with a cutlass, a machete, the great symbolic tool of slave labor. I have often wondered whether this memory doesn't screen...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 1–21.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of Dj ——— appears and disappears on the exterior staircases. He goes under the house in one spot, emerges from another, and stands staring for long intervals toward the sea. It is drizzling; we can see that he changes his shirt. At one point he cuts something off of a tree and the blade of the machete...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 137–153.
Published: 01 September 2004
... statue of Paul Bogle is shaped into a crosslike image, and Bogle
stands with his machete in hand. Manley’s diary entries relay her attempt to construct
what she calls the “bold hero,” and the machete was central to her interpretation of bold-
ness. But in the 1960s some viewers...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 81–84.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., gushing. Aurèèle tries to protect himself but it is useless.
And with all this blood fl owing, those who are hitting him do not feel like stopping. # e
blood makes them feel like hitting even harder.
After the machete hits him for the fi rst time, Aurèle’s left arm is wrenched from...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 127–137.
Published: 01 July 2015
...-bearded man was chopping fish with a broad bladed machete. The sound of the falling blade reverberating fiercely in her ears. She could see bright red tomatoes, plump oranges, ackee, plums, breadfruit, bananas, sapodillas, pineapples, yams, dasheen, plantains, crabs, chickens, and goats. Every manner...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 1–20.
Published: 01 July 2017
... what might otherwise appear to be a heterological and inventive analytic. Everything of significance in his oeuvre—mirroring, other (a and A), desire, lack, jouissance, and the orders of the symbolic, imaginary, and the Real—demand the work of a machete. The subject is constituted by this “dehiscence...
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