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Politics, Nation and PostColony: Caribbean Inflections
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Anthony Bogues Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Politics, Nation and PostColony:
Caribbean Inflections
Anthony Bogues
For if the history of Caribbean society is that of a dual relation
Between plantation and plot, the two poles which originate in a single
Historical process...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Anthony Bogues Small Axe Incorporated 2002 PREFACE
The Frame of the Nation
Anthony Bogues
n the age of transnational capitalism, regional blocs, diasporic connections, postcolo-
nial projects gone awry, and in the age of nationalism as the dark stepchild of danger-
ous...
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Dubbing The Nation
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 91–111.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Philip Maysles Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Dubbing The Nation
Philip Maysles
It often seems to the outsider that there is an organic connection between the kind of beat, the kind of
movement which is made to it, and the silent inner rebellion and frenzy which possess anyone...
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Derek Walcott: Imagination, Nation and the Poetics of Memory
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 112–132.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Rowan Ricardo Phillips Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Derek Walcott: Imagination, Nation and
the Poetics of Memory
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
I: NOBODY KNOWS . . .
long the sandy reaches of Fort James, Antigua, but a few patches of mottled tarmac
remain of what was once a road...
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Audible Entanglements: Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad's Calypso Music Scene
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 40–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Jocelyne Guilbault Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Audible Entanglements:
Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad’s
Calypso Music Scene
Jocelyne Guilbault
n 1963 the Mighty Sparrow was crowned calypso king when he performed the song
“Kennedy.” In newly independent Trinidad...
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Facing the Nation: Art History and Art Criticism in the Jamaican Context
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 49–60.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Andrea N. Douglas Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Facing the Nation: Art History and
Art Criticism in the Jamaican Context
Andrea N. Douglas
n the opening comments for the 2000 Annual National Exhibition, Michael Cooke,
then director of museums for the Institute of Jamaica...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Maximilien Laroche Small Axe Incorporated 2005 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Translated by Martin Munro. The Founding Myths of the Haitian Nation
Maximilien Laroche
he table of contents...
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot's State Against Nation : A Critique of the Totalitarian Paradigm
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 203–212.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., contemporary Haitian politics owes an immense debt to Michel-Rolph Trouillot. His book Haiti: State Against Nation set the foundations for any serious understanding of Duvalierism and the complicated and contradictory process of democratization that is still unfolding since Jean-Claude (“Baby Doc...
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Caresser's Dominion: Race, Nation, and Calypso in Postwar Canada
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 29–55.
Published: 01 July 2015
...] calypso to the world” (as a CBC press release put it) than with projecting to the world a particular image of Canada—as a modern, diverse, racially tolerant nation. That project was compromised, however, by Canada's fraught history with the West Indies. Reading Caresser's CBC career in the context...
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The Hills of Hebron : Sylvia Wynter's Disruption of the Narrative of the Nation
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Shirley Toland-Dix Sylvia Wynter's 1962 novel, The Hills of Hebron , is both a narrative of the nation and critique of the extant vision of the nation. Writing her novel from the perspective of a theorist, Wynter introduces insights and concepts that she has since developed in her extensive body...
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Constructing a Nation: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 77–92.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Corinna McLeod Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place reveals the subalternity of Antigua as a tourist locale; an identity which undermines Antigua's position as a nation. Through the use of a metafictional discourse, Kincaid's narrator deconstructs colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial myths, thereby...
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Are They Mad? Nation and Narration in Tous les hommes sont fous
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 133–148.
Published: 01 June 2008
... but also a pithy commentary on the structure of the nation-state, meaning all nation-states, not only the polity of Haiti. The text was consequently misread by literary critics whose stereotype of Haitians and belief in nationalism influenced their mean-spirited dismissals of the novel. This paper rereads...
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Canonizing De Kom: Sacrality, Blackness, and the Nation in Postcolonial Netherlands
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 59–66.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Markus Balkenhol How did Anton de Kom become national heritage? This essay argues that De Kom’s successful canonization is owed in significant part to his sacralization. It shows that in De Kom’s case, the sacralizing power of heritage has three dimensions: his narrative framing, his image, and his...
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Nation, Race, and Performance in the Poetics of Nicolás Guillén and Nancy Morejón
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 125–141.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Aisha Z. Cort; Antonio López In the context of revolutionary Cuba, discourses of identity are veiled behind discussions and performances of nation and nationality. Consideration of the paradoxical relation of blackness and the Cuban Revolution must consider the historical relation of blackness...
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George Lamming's Literary Nationalism: Language between The Tempest and the Tonelle
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Nadi Edwards Small Axe Incorporated 2002 George Lamming’s Literary Nationalism:
Language between The Tempest and the
Tonelle
Nadi Edwards
o change your language you must change your life,” Derek Walcott writes, sum-
ming up, with epigrammatic precision, the perennial...
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Black Women, Politics, Nationalism and Community in London
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 133–150.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Tracy Fisher Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Black Women, Politics, Nationalism
and Community in London
Tracy Fisher
articular historical moments often enable us to understand contemporary move-
ments and issues. Specifi cally, they are critical in understanding...
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Racial Hierarchy and the Elevation of Brownness in Creole Nationalism
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 111–123.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Maziki Thame This essay looks at the place of race in Creole Nationalism in Jamaica. It asserts that Creole Nationalism is also Brown Nationalism in Jamaica and that its racial ideas can be seen through the thought of Norman Manley, the father of Creole Nationalism; his wife Edna, its cultural...
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Haitian and Dominican E/migration and the (Re)construction of National Identity in the Poetry of the Third Generation
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 86–103.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Nicole Roberts Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Haitian and Dominican E/migration and the
(Re)construction of National Identity in
the Poetry of the Third Generation
Nicole Roberts
Nous allons vers un monde de nulle part. Cette marche forcée vers un monde uniforme a quelque chose...
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Disciplining the Unruly (National) Body in Staceyann Chin's The Other Side of Paradise
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
...” LGBT individuals present to the nation. Chin's identity as a woman of Chinese and African descent calls into question a unitary identity or origin story for Caribbean subjects and asks which bodies are allowed to be legitimate citizens of the postindependence Caribbean. Chin's personal experiences...
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African American Manhood in the Making of Caribbean (Inter)Nationalism
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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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