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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 90–102.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of the authority of English as our exclusive voice of scholarship” (91). Patwa Jamaican language Jumiekan orthography novel craft Jamaican sound studies Excuse me while I try my tongue. Yes, you supposed to hear the opening lyrics of Bob Marley’s “Easy Skanking” on him 1978 Kaya album...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 37–46.
Published: 01 November 2018
... a substantive analysis of Erna Brodber’s novel Nothing’s Mat as a fractal narrative of gendered in/securities in the Caribbean. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Caribbean in/securities Erna Brodber Nothing’s Mat fractals This essay serves as an introduction to a special section...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 99–109.
Published: 01 March 2017
... There is a clear connection between Arenas's novel and the artwork crafted by the fictional character Mortera, since both are characterized by an irreverence and a carnivalesque tone. Between 1980 and 1981 Morera collaborated with Grupo Antillano (1978–83), a collection of artists and intellectuals who...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 174–185.
Published: 01 July 2011
... on account of their perceived sexual and political unreliability. The moth-
ers who fathered the new nationalist men are reified as sources of inspiration in the novels and
poems of the 1950s and 1960s. Yet, in novels as early as Roger Mais’s Brother Man and films
3 See F. A. Hoyos, Grantley Adams...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 153–163.
Published: 01 November 2022
... an impregnable confidence. So in this moment, there is a fundamental psychological shift where we gather, from the rubble of history and the ruins of what appeared to be a failed revolution, bricks the ancestors crafted and use them to structure the future. Consequently, we are gifted a cognitive map...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
... by crafting an aesthetics of ecological reinvention that neither hearkens back to a falsely harmonious ecological past nor foretells an entirely apocalyptic planetary future. Caribbean multispecies studies complicate commonplaces of ecocriticism by troubling the neat division between spectacular disaster...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
...-crafted” kinship that is necessarily radically democratic, since it resists the tyranny of repressive conventions. Movement itself in Condé's novel, whether in terms of diaspora, crossings, transnational migration, or other modes, helps articulate an irreverent reconceptualization of community while...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 41–59.
Published: 01 September 2001
... the present? A diff erent kind of politics? No politics at all? Does
economic success for twenty-, thirty- and forty-something professionals, in particular,
intensify nostalgia for a Luddite world of dreadlocksed fi shermen and no e-mail, a
utopia of pristine beaches and hand-crafted bookshelves...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... plays to start and then several novels, making her the most prolific and best-known woman writer in Haiti (then as now). She published her first three novels in 1954, 1957, and 1960, and each takes up issues of class, race, sexuality, and gender with daring incisiveness. These early fiction works...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
... battle against the intransigence of identity constructs and gender norms, fashioning a form of fluid resistance that is both subtle and powerful. Through water, Burgos crafts what Pérez-Rosario terms “escape routes,” forging alternate paths for belonging within a society whose strict parameters refused...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 167–170.
Published: 01 October 2007
... University
Press), examines how faculty members at North American universities confront racial and
gender inequities on their campuses.
Myr iam J.A. Chancy is a Haitian-born Canadian writer. Her first novel, Spirit of Haiti
(2003), was a finalist in the Best First Book Category, Canada...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 172–176.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is simultaneously a recognition
of one’s phenomenological relation to the cosmos and a radical separation from it, is
the arrival of subjectivity. For Kincaid, self-refl exivity reaches its apogee in the writer’s
craft, the ability to “read and write.” In his failure to do these, Mr. Potter...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is simultaneously a recognition
of one’s phenomenological relation to the cosmos and a radical separation from it, is
the arrival of subjectivity. For Kincaid, self-refl exivity reaches its apogee in the writer’s
craft, the ability to “read and write.” In his failure to do these, Mr. Potter...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is simultaneously a recognition
of one’s phenomenological relation to the cosmos and a radical separation from it, is
the arrival of subjectivity. For Kincaid, self-refl exivity reaches its apogee in the writer’s
craft, the ability to “read and write.” In his failure to do these, Mr. Potter...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 73–78.
Published: 01 July 2024
... from that office stays so strongly with me still. 4 “Into the kumbla” is repeated in Erna Brodber’s 1988 novel Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home , emerging from the trickster context of an Anancy tale and coming to take on paradoxical meanings: the kumbla is a calabash of hiding, protection...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
... to consider a more urgent question; not whether you believe in this story or not, but whether this story is about the kinds of people you have never taken the time to believe in. —Kei Miller, Augustown In the “Thanks” section following Augustown , Kei Miller relates that the novel “has been powered...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 182–184.
Published: 01 February 2008
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nationally and internationally in exhibitions such as The National Gallery’s Curator’s Eye II
and the National Biennial. Her work has been screened internationally at video art events
such as Manifest Art & Design on Film Series. She is the recipient of a 2007 Commonwealth
Arts & Crafts Award.
Ian...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 87–95.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., and finally the use of the novel by the region’s writers in the mid-twentieth century as a means of representing the inner life of the colonized. In proffering this list of historical events that helped frame Caribbean culture, Lamming suggests, “The world met here, and it was at every level, except...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 163–176.
Published: 01 June 2007
...: Pantheon, 2004, ISBN: 037542282X
Haitian Novels and Novels of Haiti:
History, Haitian Writing, and
Madison Smartt Bell’s Trilogy
Martin Munro
Ab s t r a c t : This essay reads Madison Smartt Bell’s Haitian trilogy in the context of contemporary
Haitian literature, and considers...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 158–168.
Published: 01 March 2002
... respectful of James’s use of Marxian dialectics and political economy,
and of his brilliant attempts in his novel Minty Alley and in texts like Beyond a Boundary
and Mariners, Renegades and Castaways to organically link the historicist and poeticist
traditions. Where James’s approach...
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