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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.
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 261–268.
Published: 01 June 2006
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in the Making of Caribbean
(Inter)Nationalism
Belinda Edmondson
My father has been obsessed with Billy Eckstine for as long as I can remember. As a black
boy coming of age in colonial Jamaica in the 1950s, my father had before him many images
of dignified, educated, black and brown West Indian...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 147–155.
Published: 01 July 2024
... not explicitly claim a sexual orientation or center a sexual identity, which is perhaps what makes them attractive for use in this way. In her examination of queer life in Mexico City, Anahi Russo Garrido suggests that societies establish a “hierarchical valuation of intimate relationships” that prioritizes...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 103–114.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of Jamaican popular culture. My body of literary criticism is not as widely known. I am currently editing a selection of my essays on Caribbean literature to restore the balance. My bilingual newspaper columns written for the Jamaica Observer and the Sunday Gleaner gave me another opportunity to make...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
... an example of and a metaphor for the transnational, coalitional, and space-making politics of Black lesbian activists in the island. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and a participatory mapping project, the author shows how the work of making caldosa connects the local practice of space-making...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 43–47.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of the making of a “modern” Jamaica has been crucial to a nationalist historiography—a paradigm that might be less cogent in the contemporary period. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 1960s identity race independence These notes sketch, in a preliminary way, a gradually evolving project that literary...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2013
... illuminates how a loveable, diasporic Jamaican identity might be made, and how we might understand its making. 2 In the novel, Channer makes (creates) intimate and physical types of love, and Waiting in Vain 's online reviews demonstrate appreciation for the author's strategies for making and finding...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... migrants professing strong Christian faith, their children, when moving away from the organized religion of their parents, retained crucial fire-and-brimstone aspects of Christianity, making them fit for purpose through the fascinating belief system of Rastafari. As Paul Gilroy notes, “Soul and reggae...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
... visual record of black prisoners in the Nazi camp system and particularly in internment camps. The paucity of textual accounts of black experience under the Nazis makes the historical value of the Nassy Collection, as visual evidence of a transnational black presence in the camps, all the greater. 1...
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Published: 01 July 2017
As the green pods age, they reinforce old themes of birth, aging, and death and time. I started to make shapes by taking the pods and putting shells in them, but the pods would not hold the shape because they are not very strong. I use the shape of the pods to make papier-mâché forms, then put
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 38–56.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Mindie Lazarus-Black The early history of legal education in the English-speaking Caribbean reflects a struggle for local identity and authenticity, while serving multiple states. Because schools are key locales for the making of docile bodies, West Indian lawyers experienced “subjection...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203–208.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jossianna Arroyo This review essay focuses on a critical reading of Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon with the aim to shed light on these following questions: How can we read the writing of community in the work of Julia de Burgos? And to what...
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The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 96–109.
Published: 01 July 2020
...-natural crisis events as evidence, it shows that repetitive states of coconstituted ecological and political-economic devastation create vivid spaces of loss that make clear to the affected that repeating states of dystopia cannot be ruptured by the reiteration of the past political visions of nation...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 28–43.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Elizabeth E. Sine This essay explores the making of a radical cultural politics amid the global crisis of the 1930s and 1940s through a study of the life and work of dancer Si-lan Chen. Born in Trinidad to Afro-Caribbean and Chinese parents, trained as a ballerina in Moscow, and an active supporter...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Nalini Mohabir A newly installed plaque at the port of Kolkata stands as a memorial to the indentured Indian diaspora. It conveys a collective story relevant to present desires, not past hauntings. Yet it is the tension of absences and silences that makes the port city an interesting site...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to caution that it is always important to ask about the ideological construction of the theory-problems in our scholarship. The essay then turns to a discussion of the problem-space that makes intelligible why and how C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins is constructed as an exploration of the Haitian...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 191–201.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Julian Henriques This essay takes off from Tavia Nyong'o's “Afro-philo-sonic Fictions” to make a journey into the embodiment of sounding through the dread body. It starts with Prince Buster's Judge Dread persona and Rastafarianism rather than the sonic bodies of the bashment gal in the setting...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 56–76.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., and particularly the addition of a CIA agent to the cast, mark wider shifts as Britain's imperial presence came to an end. The choices made on how Jamaicans were depicted, along with the local resonances that helped make it surprisingly popular in Jamaica, shed unexpected light onto wider imperial transitions. ©...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
... and community and a collectivized vision-making that is not circumscribed by feminist engagement with the state. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 BOOK DISCUSSION
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and
the Sacred by M. Jacqui Alexander. Durham: Duke University Press...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 133–144.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Leon Wainwright This article discusses various perspectives on image-making in the Anglophone Caribbean with reference to the economy of relations between its visitors and inhabitants during the modern colonial period and its aftermath. It evaluates the framework of the “tropical picturesque...
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