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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and the geographies they inhabit. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Dominican American women mother-daughter relationships ghosts colonial experience sex work Although a year separates the publication of the debut novels by Dominican Americans Nelly Rosario...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.
Published: 01 July 2010
... then and now of Goodison’s From Harvey River makes me pause to con-
sider Dannabang Kuwabong’s conclusion in “The Mother as Archetype of Self: A Poetics of
Matrilineage in the Poetry of Claire Harris and Lorna Goodison”:
Mother-daughter relationship, therefore, is central...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 64–79.
Published: 01 March 2005
... the structure their relation. Th us, while Kincaid appears to be extend-
ing a friendly hand to liberals and feminists, it is a hand as capable of striking back as
of stroking.
A dominant theme in Kincaid’s fi ction is the mother/daughter relationship: Kin-
caid shares...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 36–52.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., “Rewriting the Marassa:
Story-Telling and Healing in the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory,” in Portrait
of the Mother-Artist: Class and Creativity in Contemporary American Fiction (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2003); and Lucía
Suárez, The Tears of Hispaniola...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 135–156.
Published: 01 March 2009
...” for a better
tomorrow that never came: deferred dreams.
The proverb “My son will be my son until he marries a wife, and my daughter will be
my daughter for the rest of her life” highlights the notion of mother-daughter relationships in
the legacy of the front room. Many grown...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and Perla, still from La vida si es imitación, 2014. Courtesy of the artist gained at the expense of a close relationship with a daughter. Indeed, the film's trailer underscores the drama of female relationships: “Of all these things is woman … the drama of life, what a mother says to a daughter, what...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 52–72.
Published: 01 October 2007
...
was to be given new dignity; it was the duty and destiny of women to be the ‘mothers of the
race’, but also their great reward.”8 Although there are clear cultural and historical differences
between the status of women in Victorian England, and women in postcolonial Jamaica,
and indeed their relationship...
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The Operations of the Closet and the Discourse of Unspeakable Contents in Black Fauns and My Brother
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2006
... notes a homoerotic thread in several of Kincaid’s texts that ultimately enforce
a correction of its figuring. She argues that whether linked to a turbulent mother-daughter
relationship or to female maturation processes, incidents of female bonding are “en route
to heterosexuality.”35 Of course...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 78–88.
Published: 01 November 2010
... are sown
in childhood, evident in her autobiographical narratives Le coeur à rire et à pleurer (1999; Tales
from the Heart) and Victoire, les saveurs et les mots (2006; Victoire: My Mother’s Mother), in
which Condé reflects on her Guadeloupean roots and her relationship to the wider world...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 178–182.
Published: 01 September 2001
... as her father sank deeper and
deeper into depression. It becomes quite clear to the reader that the relationship between
mother and daughter is fraught with regret and anger. Each woman is struggling to rein
in emotions that are on the verge of eruption. Tessa’s fi rst question to her mother, “Why...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 124–137.
Published: 01 November 2017
...” (3–4). The daughter pays bodily, then, for the mother's sense of inherited illegitimacy, and the mother's perception that although she has secured the legal marriage that eluded her own mother, she has married badly. Her husband divides his pay “among his family, his sweethearts and his alcohol” (10...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
...’ complex portraits of how external pressures, personal disappointment, and thwarted acquisitive desires structured their relationships with their mothers challenge romanticized images of mother-daughter dynamics. Both mothers assimilated and sublimated unmet expectations into narratives of self-sacrifice...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
... as they laughed. 17 Later in the scene, after Chavel slaps her daughter's hand because Miriam has tried to touch her hair before it is ready, Miriam is surprised by the blue ribbons her mother pulls out and then places on her shoulder: “[Miriam] beamed at the sight of the pretty bright blue that would...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 16–37.
Published: 01 February 2008
... between two narratives of self that mutually constitute and destroy each other.
Their struggle excludes all communal, including global, referents. Mr. Potter is the fiction of
a father-daughter relationship, which elides into Kincaid’s personal story.17 The novel, as the
imagined narrative of his...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 57–85.
Published: 01 September 2005
... to be the perfection of the two and is regarded as
even more sacred than the twins (who are associated with the Catholic saints Damian and Cosmas). In Framing
Silence (pp. 124–28), Chancy analyzes the mother, Martine, and her daughter, Sophie, in Breath, Eyes, Memory
as marassa.
45...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
...), 14. 7 Anna Mahase, My Mother’s Daughter: The Autobiography of Anna Mahase Snr., 1899–1978 (Claxton Bay, Trinidad: Royard, 1992), 13 (italics in original). 8 Sherry-Ann Singh, “Women in the Ramayana Tradition in Trinidad,” in Kanhai, Bindi , 37. 9 Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2014
... relationships to colonial and neocolonial powers and the vagaries of survival in the quotidian. Lee takes up this shared position by exploring tensions between urban and rural Jamaican Chinese identity in “The Visit,” from his first collection of poetry, From behind the Counter: Poems from a Rural Jamaican...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 69–85.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and geographical location. These exclusions are, from the start of the narrative, akin to national mores, with Salomé starting her story by saying, “The story of my life starts with the story of my country.” 11 The story is a pas de deux between a mother and her daughter, both having barely the time to know...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 162–173.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., they model creative ways of reading across archival and textual fragments. Warner’s careful navigation of Ndiaye’s polyphonic text offers a particularly insightful method for examining the “melding of mother’s and daughter’s narrative voices” and shows how those voices are ever shifting, speaking sometimes...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 155–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Among those walkers entering the hall were undoubtedly sons or daughters or mothers or cousins of the screamers. In the hall, the audience represents a listening public that links the past, present, and future of Los Van Van and their songs: “For some in the audience, the musicians are familiar friends...
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