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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 61–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of federation, particularly Richard B. Moore and George Padmore, developed their political perspectives through responses to the occupation. We can thus see the questioning of nation-state independence and the critique of neocolonialism (as a form of US economic imperialism allied with elites in the neocolony...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 16–30.
Published: 01 November 2020
... often reinforces a false dichotomy between a rational “West” and its irrational “others.” Specifically, Chamoiseau’s memoir both portrays creole magical beliefs as a vehicle through which its school-aged protagonists resist the ideology of neocolonial pedagogies, and it consistently refers to aspects...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
... neocolonial fantasies of the untouched Caribbean paradise. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Virtual Islands: Mobilities, Connectivity, and the New Caribbean Spatialities Mimi Sheller Ab s t r a c t : Many parts of the Caribbean region are being respatialized, rescaled and reterritorial...
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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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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 63–73.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Stella Vincenot This article shows how Patrick Chamoiseau's struggle against neocolonial forms of domination of Martinique is remarkably similar to French Regionalism, a movement fighting for political and cultural autonomy of the French Provinces in the early XXth Century. Given the fate of French...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 215–225.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Carolyn Cooper The cantankerous public discourse generated by the author’s bilingual newspaper columns published in the Jamaica Observer (May 1993 to January 1998) and the Jamaica Gleaner (March 2013 to the present) illustrates the conservative, neocolonial language ideology that still prevails...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 190–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
... studies of the anglophone Caribbean’s postindependence social and political order and scholarship on Caribbean thought. Ultimately, Beyond Coloniality engages in a quest for freedom beyond neocolonial citizenship. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Caribbean thought coloniality postcolonial citizenship C...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 167–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Town from 1963 to 1966; the 1966 state visit of Haile Selassie; and the riots spawned in 1968 by the government expulsion of University of the West Indies lecturer Walter Rodney. This crisis arose from a clash of paths of development—a largely neocolonial one that marginalized the epistemic...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 64–77.
Published: 01 November 2014
... commonwealth, yet not fully incorporated as a state of the United States. My definition of neocolonialism follows that of Robert J. C. Young, who defines it as “a continuing economic hegemony that means that the postcolonial state remains in a situation of dependence on its former masters.” Robert J. C. Young...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 66–83.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., is motivated and led by this elite—precisely the neocolonial elite that Rodney famously pilloried in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa . Still, to my mind, there is not nothing to be done with the idea of reparations. Or, put differently, there is an exploration to be undertaken of a both/and way...
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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 (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 42–55.
Published: 01 July 2010
... Tanya Batson-Savage In the following essay I explore the portrayal of Jamaicans and Jamaica in mainstream films produced by the US film industry over the past two decades. I examine film’s role as the celluloid continuation of the neocolonial gaze, wherein the mythical image of the native...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and intellectual for whom the act of self-determination was a sacred property of human being, the basis for what Martin Carter called, in a phrase Lamming admired, a “free community of valid persons.” 8 By the end of the novel, the first, clearly neocolonial republic has been brought down by a popular...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
... revolutionary possibilities and struggle in terms of backsliding into neocolonialism and clientelism (1). 3 He instead draws attention to “a flowering and deepening of claims to a postcolonial citizenship barely imaginable in the heady days of socialist experimentation” (3). To be sure, Kamugisha...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
... Henzell filmThe Harder They Come and heard throughout transitions in Jamaican musi- cal sound from ska, to rock steady, to early roots reggae forms. Garth White, in a seminal 1967 essay on the topic, offers a Fanonian analysis of rude bwoy culture as a lumpen response to the neocolonial hierarchies...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of international literary space” to circulate beyond their geopolitical sites of production, and engaging with her work—critically or not—has enriched debates about literary field formations in colonial, neocolonial, and postcolonial contexts. 6 I consider her book fundamental for understanding Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
... sensitive to neocolonial practices that continue to have wide effects in many forms on the region. In this context, King notes that an accusatory Western-style discourse on the need for greater visibility and legal rights for sexual minorities can quickly raise the specter of attempted neocolonial control...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 50–65.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the task of historicizing the present and generating usable African pasts. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 neocolonialism vindicationism modes of production Ujamaa How Europe Underdeveloped Africa opens with the following lines: “This book derives from a concern...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of neocolonialism in the Caribbean and in Haiti in particular, a sustained engagement at the juncture of critical Whiteness studies and Haitian studies is warranted. 8 In this paper, I am interested in Vieux-Chauvet’s representation of Whiteness at a particularly formative moment, the last years of uninterrupted...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 106–122.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Creole nationalism allowed accommodation of the white elite into the national space even while rejecting British colonial domina- tion. Th e idealization of whiteness that was at the core of colonial historical construction ssmallmall became the basis for postindependence neocolonial...