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Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 3 Pimper’s Paradise, the Terra Nova Nights Edition , 2018; triptych, mixed media on canvas, 7 ft. 5 in. × 16 ft. 8 in.
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to literature to help us see the continuities and ruptures between the past and the present. Staceyann Chin's memoir, The Other Side of Paradise , suggests how the subject positions that largely occupy her in the narrative (mixed-race Jamaican, sexual “deviant,” unwanted child) bear echoes of the treatment...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
... The True History of Paradise (1999) take these explorations a step further, specifically examining women's responses to violence and reminding readers that present-day sexual violence creates conditions of entrapment, hostility, and lawlessness reminiscent of the barbarities of slavery and colonialism...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 83–96.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Jane Bryce When St. Lucian-descended Black British artist Isaac Julien presented his avant-garde triple-screen video work Paradise Omeros at a Festival of African and Caribbean Film in Barbados, a member of the audience commended him on the work but regretted it was not being shown to the “real...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Sharina Maillo-Pozo This essay examines Raquel Cepeda’s memoire, Bird of Paradise. How I Became Latina , through the intersections between Dominican latinidad , gender, race, and hip-hop. By exposing other discourses of latinidad as performed and imagined in New York City by an afrodominicana...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi; Aaron Kamugisha When South African–born Peter Abrahams moved to Jamaica in 1956, he thought he had found a racial paradise. Over the next six decades as a Jamaican, his understanding of race in Jamaica was complicated after independence. His last two novels...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... a selection of (semi)autobiographical 1970s-based literary works such as Anthony C. Winkler’s Going Home to Teach , Brian Meeks’s Paint the Town Red , and Margaret Cezair-Thompson’s The True History of Paradise (and interweaving Shara McCallum’s This Strange Land ), this essay examines some shortcomings...
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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 (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 133–146.
Published: 01 July 2020
... as a resort paradise. This essay reveals how climate change, economic fragility, and uncertain sovereignty have collectively undermined Barbuda’s customary forms of independence, leaving dispossession in their wake. Of the Barbudans sent to Antigua, many escaped the Codrington estates or never arrived...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 80–96.
Published: 01 June 2006
... with Paradise: A History of the Jamaican Tourist Industry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993). But, scholars examine the tourism industry s practices across the globe, and their general discussions focus my concern for the Caribbean as a particularly compelling tourist destination and builds...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 201–208.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Rachel Manley Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Thoughts on Writing from Exile
Rachel Manley
e True History of Paradise, Margaret Cezair-! ompson. New York: Dutton, 2000. ISBN
0-525-94490-7.
“You realize you live in Paradise?”
“Only because you’ve told me a hundred...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 131–154.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., an interposition that is not the landscape as a paradise wholly relished. The traveler is attracted—as in one of Poe’s poems—to the palace of bliss . When he looks around him, the earth absorbs the whirlwind of rain. What communicates his desire and movement to him, in another whirlwind, disappears, like a vision...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 187–194.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Figure 3 Pimper’s Paradise, the Terra Nova Nights Edition , 2018; triptych, mixed media on canvas, 7 ft. 5 in. × 16 ft. 8 in. ...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 112–140.
Published: 01 February 2007
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Grenada so sweet
Grenada so nice
Grenada, ah looters paradise
Grenada so sweet
Grenada so nice
Grenada, ah looters paradise
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 197–200.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and performance art. N adia H uggins is a self-taught photographer from St. Vincent and the Grenadines whose primary focus is documentary and conceptual photography of and about the Caribbean. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 157–168.
Published: 01 February 2008
... town or vista within its viewfinder as a generic paradise.
Despite the geological peculiarities or demographic realities of a given place, the Caribbean
that exists in the tropicalizing eye is abundant with just-plucked-from-the-vine delicacies, free
from metropolitan influences...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2024
... imagines. I would argue that the Grammys performance marks a shift from the affirmation of pleasure and unruly politicized though lucrative performances of Bad Bunny’s Un verano sin ti during the summer of 2022 to the offering of paradise for the taking in the metropolis in line with the imagination...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 260–265.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography (2012) and See Me Here: A Survey of Contemporary Self-Portraits from the Caribbean (2014). She has exhibited work in Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions , Washington, DC (2011); Pictures from Paradise , CONTACT Photography Festival...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2012
... in “the quarrel” reawakened by Margaret Cezair-Thompson's first novel, The True History of Paradise . Cezair-Thompson's female protagonist, like Marshall's, in moving forward in the present, finds herself moving inexorably back into the complicated past and into questioning of the meaning of history...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 100–105.
Published: 01 February 2006
... come from a place—Santo Domingo—where Europeans and Africans and whatever
else touched our coast mixed together to become one race. I come from some kind of
hybrid paradise, which I adore. I come from a land also with many frontiers, divisions,
confl icts, lies, and sanctifi ed liars, which I hate...
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