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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of the colonial government, from racialist nuisance to the local elite to a primary threat to the security of the Jamaican state. The essay argues that a deeper understanding of the extent to which post-1952 US foreign policy shaped both local and colonial perceptions of people's struggles for sovereignty should...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 169–181.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Krista A. Thompson Are there intrinsic and unique ways of representing the “visual atmospherics” of the Caribbean? Might phenomenological studies of embodied perception offer insight into distinct forms of Caribbean visuality? How would contrapuntal interpretations of colonial archives result...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 95–106.
Published: 01 July 2009
...” exposes the ambivalence of such racial distinctions in the colonial context, and underscores the need for a more nuanced perception of whiteness as well as blackness in the Caribbean. Small Axe Inc. 2009 “The Unhomely Moment”: Frieda
Cassin’s Nineteenth-Century
Antiguan Novel...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 164–173.
Published: 01 July 2011
... colonial discourse. Through it, Thomas and other Afro-Caribbean intellectuals shaped the perception and material reality of their individual, ethnic, and national communities. © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 BOOK DISCUSSION:
Faith Smith, Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
Published: 01 July 2017
... by the perception of the jewelry as a commentary on sociohistorical realities and gendered labor practices. Artists working in the diaspora, including British-Guyanese jeweler Vannetta Seecharran, have created experimental pieces that still retain the minimalist and communal aesthetics traditionally associated...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 243–254.
Published: 01 July 2013
... their confidence. This concept may have been born from a flawed perception of beauty, through global advertising. They are entitled to their portrayal. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 In an effort to access what they perceive as a more desirable level of society—one typically defined by light complexions...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 43–56.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Caribbean art perception the real female body painting In a work from Trinidadian-born artist Nicole Awai's years-long series of drawings Specimens from Local Ephemera (2003–11), a conjoined female figure looks through two holes as two screws hover menacingly behind her (see fig. 1 ). 1...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of synesthesia ,” in “detours of perception.” Listening, attention/attending to, beyond “regimes of representation” is what happens (xvi; italics in original). Quoting Tsitsi Jaji’s account of synesthesia as an “inter-sensory detour from one mode of perception to another,” Ellis Neyra stresses an “orientation...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 190–200.
Published: 01 July 2024
...: that of a first-person lived-experience (i.e., perception, knowledge, affectivity, sensibility, etc.), which refers to a phenomenological tradition; and that of (collective) agency, the political subject of resistance (or revolution), which refers to a Marxist tradition. 6 From my perspective, Colonial Debts...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., the countryside). Mozman's use of Sirk's work as a basis for her study functions in two ways: it considers the perception of life in the United States from the perspective of an immigrant and considers the relevance of Sirk in the Americas as examples of (a) the hybritidy of American culture and (b...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 164–166.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., reorienting the geometry of empire. At once, time compressed
and space contracted. Movement expanded: length, breadth, depth. Speed extended: slow-
ness relinquished and fastness retained. Perception was obliterated, groundless. Perspective
effaced, hanging.
The work of speed made it difficult...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
Published: 01 November 2022
... a mere two years after Trinidad and Tobago had obtained its political independence from Britain. Because he was both a well-respected historian and, arguably, a skilled politician, he knew all too well that understandings of the past would play an important role in shaping local perceptions...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 63–72.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Gordon Rohlehr, “Articulating a Caribbean Aesthetic: The Revolution of Self-Perception,” in My Strangled City, and Other Essays (Port of Spain: Longman Trinidad, 1992), 4. 1 Carolyn Cooper, Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the “Vulgar” Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993; repr...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 62–79.
Published: 01 November 2011
... as impressed on a person or thing; a ‘brand,’ ”12 stigma,
as I refer to it, should be understood in at least three ways. First, there is the perception of
AIDS in the larger society that marginalizes, stereotypes, and discriminates against people
with the disease. Then there is its internalization...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 174–185.
Published: 01 October 2006
... talk outside the dance. The perception of black dance histori-
cally has been a major part of the varying perceptions of slackness within the dance space.
The symbiotic relationship between performer and his or her everyday (the DJ sings what he
knows as part of his experience) and between...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 151–164.
Published: 01 October 2008
...
as sacred spaces, what if we were to follow Spinoza’s advice and try to describe with the language
of geometry, or come up to date with an attitude toward forces and energies similar to those of
contemporary physicists or neurophysiologists and researchers into cognition and perception?
That is, all...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 141–150.
Published: 01 March 2017
... be considered white in Jamaica. Her perception, also confirmed by other classmates, was unexpected, since I was considered black in the United States and brown when I grew up in Jamaica. In doing further research, I have since discovered that the distinct categories “Black” and “White” were not on Jamaica's...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 179–183.
Published: 01 July 2010
... called “negative capability.” Good, I thought. If a critic as perceptive as Paquet
can’t find my voice, then I’ve succeeded in getting myself out of the way and allowing the
characters to speak for themselves.
Paquet describes From Harvey River as a text that “reaffirms...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 79–163.
Published: 01 March 2010
.... In
terms of class we are not talking about a middle-class experience, but people at the bottom of
the ladder, those who have an acre of land and those who have nothing, and their perceptions
of each other. I think of my father and my mother as very representative of the tug of war, of
the confusion...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., at the airport, or in the cultural centers in Georgetown, Guyana, at the time, also rehearses a different proposition for the perception of it. Recalling this perspective prompts us to consider the insightfulness and expediency of Williams's work intuitively evoking the imaginative space of the moment. Recalling...
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