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in Unruly Diasporas: Memory, Disaster, and Belizean Migration
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 1 Market Square after the Hurricane, 1961 . Photograph from John D. Friesen, “Hurricane ‘Hattie,’” Belize National Library Service and Information System, 1964. Latin American and Caribbean Collection, University of Florida
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 105–114.
Published: 01 November 2018
... practices that shaped the texture of freedom. An engagement with travel narratives, specifically attentive to reading against the grain of elite mobilities, is proposed as a means through which to reveal the everyday negotiation of livelihoods. Offering the market as a case study, the essay argues...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 30–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Rivke Jaffe This paper explores the existence of `ital chic' in Jamaica. A cross between ethical consumerism and the marketing of cool, ital chic represents an aesthetic repertoire and a commercial strategy based on Rastafari. The symbols and aesthetics of a Rastafari lifestyle, or `ital livity...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 90–102.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Jamaican on the page. For creative writers navigating a global publishing market of anglophone editors and readers, this ongoing quest for a truer yet accessible orthography has both creative and market risk. But it also holds out rewards in reclaiming the Jamaican mother tongue and in developing...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 125–137.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Edward Sammons The onset of the Great Recession posed a stern challenge to the prevailing model for better living through globalization. Late in the last decade, after having dominated the theory and practice of policy reform for over thirty years, the market-first doctrine known as neoliberalism...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 164–184.
Published: 01 July 2009
..., especially in the market-driven context of contemporary Jamaican art. Small Axe Inc. 2009 What Times Are These?
Visual Art and Social Crisis
in Postcolonial Jamaica
Veerle Poupeye
Was sind das für Zeiten, wo ein Gespräch über Bäume fast ein Verbrechen ist, weil es ein
Schweigen über so...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 185–196.
Published: 01 July 2015
...” that is central to the formation of Caribbean creative experience, and outlines the discursive field, the art market, and the policy and funding landscape through which Caribbean and diaspora artists move. In response to the discussion of Timed Out in this issue of Small Axe , Wainwright explains the continuing...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of what George Soros has called “free market fundamentalism.” The New Poor Law's role in the criminalization of poverty is widely acknowledged. So too was the emergent gospel of free trade strengthened by the British state's “disciplined” response to the Irish famine. Slave owner compensation also...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 171–187.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of outdoor markets, and the slapstick modernity of an imported French department store, as well as an endearing but doomed communal use of toilets known as caca à deux . The chapters are followed by a translator’s note offering biographical and literary historical context for both the author and text...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Through a reading of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place , the essay highlights how the market logics of mid-nineteenth-century imperial liberalization continued to animate new forms of West Indian erasure well into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While Kincaid deploys arguments of imperial neglect...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 78–86.
Published: 01 March 2020
... realities of economic markets and measures and caught between national and international belongings. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 federation West Indian literature Caribbean regionalism belonging aesthetic In as much as the late nineteenth-century Antillean Confederation...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
... stalking horses for imperialism, and their considerable autonomy and self-interest were sometimes at odds with the objectives of both host governments and metropoles. They acquired a cosmopolitan character that allowed them to bypass particular national identities when convenient. Caribbean markets lay...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of the early days. Edna Manley, The Fine Arts In the 1940s, as artist Edna Manley walked around an art exhibition lled with work by black Jamaican schoolchildren, she confronted several curious images. A student had created familiar enough pictures of local market women with bandanas and the tucked up...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 March 2003
... artists attempt to use cultural
Small Axe 13, March 2003: pp. 95–115
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value as a means of mediating the hegemonic force of market values in the age of global
capitalism. Buju Banton is one of the more successful dancehall-DJs-turned-conscious-
vibes artists. Banton’s...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
Published: 01 October 2008
....
The essential characteristic of Haiti’s contribution to contemporary culture is undoubtedly
constituted by the relatively buoyant international fame of its visual arts, linked especially—
since 1944—to the limited market of naïve painting.1 In fact, today in Haiti, there are thirty-
five commercial art...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 68–80.
Published: 01 November 2018
... markets primarily in Europe. In recent decades, the regional agriculture sector has been confronted with unprecedented challenges that have had a significant negative impact on both sectors. The overarching mechanisms responsible for these challenges are driven by global economic and environmental...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... the brutally enforced lock-step, labor-intensive practices of the sugar plantation,
practices so efficient and productive that, as Sidney Mintz says, were exported as a model to
the emergent factory system in England. It must have been hard to miss the Sunday markets
where slaves sold...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 72–79.
Published: 01 July 2014
... types of production: for individual and family consumption, for local and regional markets, and, finally, for export into the international market. It was based on the use of agricultural techniques that drew on a range of sources, stretching perhaps as far back as the canucos of the Taino and including...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 80–88.
Published: 01 July 2019
... existing in the mytho-poetics of blood & imagination. Like the dangling of turbans from trees, like the throat of the woman slashed in the cane field, like the five-year-old girl raped aboard the jahaji all in the service of sugar & rum. Who was anointed at Coronation Market...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 127–137.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and scents commingled, flowed into one another, and Tia was drowning in them; all of her senses were engaged, occupied. They had finally reached the market. Tia's head jerked from side to side, her eyes wide with wonder. All about her people were selling, calling out to potential customers, bartering...
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