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Public Spectacles: Caribbean Women and the Politics of Public Performance
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Belinda Edmondson Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Public Spectacles: Caribbean Women
and the Politics of Public Performance
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e race rises as its women rise. ey are the true standard of its elevation. We are trying to produce
cultured men without asking...
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De Jamette in We : Redefining Performance in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 60–78.
Published: 01 March 2010
... by the elite, acknowledged how effective their socially sanctioned, “primitive” physicalities were in inciting insubordination. Despite being abhorred by society, the jamette's legendary deeds became influential to the performance of contemporary women masqueraders. Finally, I theorize her movements, which I...
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Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 7–23.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Nadia Ellis This article provides a set of readings toward what I am calling a “queer performance hermeneutic” of dancehall culture. It argues that although dancehall appears to be rigidly heteronormative, there are modes of queer performance within its culture, modes that may even be enabled...
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Patería and Contemporary Puerto Rican Queer/Trans Performance
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 115–129.
Published: 01 July 2024
... and performance about patos and patas (especially rewritings of Hans Christian Andersen’s “El patito feo,” or “The Ugly Duckling”) from the 1920s to the present by writers, poets, and artists such as Alfredo Collado Martell, Luis Lloréns Torres, Alfredo Villanueva-Collado, Ángel Lozada, Frances Negrón...
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The Body and Performance in 1970s Jamaica: Toward a Decolonial Cultural Method
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Honor Ford-Smith This essay discusses decolonization, performance, and education in the 1970s in Jamaica and argues that embodied performances of humans existing at the margins of power are both compelling as and productive of new forms of knowledge because they teach us to challenge enduring...
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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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Published: 01 July 2015
Stills from movt nr. 4 , Morphis , 2010; performance, two hours. Photos by Olubode Shawn; Brown/BLOOM NYC
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in The Body and Performance in 1970s Jamaica: Toward a Decolonial Cultural Method
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 2 Rex Nettleford in performance in Myal (chor. Rex Nettleford), 1974. Maria LaYacona Photography. Courtesy of the National Dance Theatre Company
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in Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 3 Image from María José’s performance of La futura . Screen shot by Karla Claudio Betancourt.
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Transformista , Travesti , Transgénero : Performing Sexual Subjectivity in Cuba
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
...M. Myrta Leslie Santana This essay considers the stories of Blaccucini and Ángel Daniel, two Black transgender drag performers from Cuba, and dwells on the relationship they imagine between their work as performers and their subjectivities as trans people. The author situates these narratives...
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The Great Bernadine, Royal Cobo of the Caribbean, performed by Natalie Wood...
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Figure 2 The Great Bernadine, Royal Cobo of the Caribbean, performed by Natalie Wood, 2024. Photograph by Nila Gupta
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Day at the Park Belizean Festival . Musicians perform onstage during the Da...
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in Unruly Diasporas: Memory, Disaster, and Belizean Migration
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 2 Day at the Park Belizean Festival . Musicians perform onstage during the Day at the Park Belizean Festival presented by the Concerned Belizean Association at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California, September 1996. Photograph by Verona Jemmott. Shades of LA Photo Collection S-014-621
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Music, Politics, and Pleasure: Live Soca in Trinidad
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2010
... politics of pleasure and the cultural work that live soca performances achieve through the creation of what I refer to as intimacies . Drawing on Lisa Lowe's critical insights, I use the word “intimacy” in two ways: to speak about the spatial proximity soca helps create, and to address the variety...
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Dancing in an Enclosure: Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé An examination of the significance of dance performances in the demonstrations of the Puerto Rican summer of 2019, this essay argues that these performances belong to a history of irreverent, extravagant mourning gestures that periodically irrupt in Puerto Rican culture...
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Behind the Orange Door
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Gabrielle Civil; Rosamond S. King What does it mean to embody the Caribbean as performance/art? In this coolaborative essay, two Caribbean women artists respond to this question in a dynamic dialogue of text and images. Each has individually performed at and been exhibited in more than fifty venues...
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José E. Muñoz's Critical Caribbean Crossroads
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 78–84.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Maja Horn This essay is a personal reflection on how Horn's scholarship on gender, sexuality, and performance in the hispanophone Caribbean has been shaped by the oeuvre of the late critical theorist José E. Muñoz. In particular, Horn compares and contrasts the uses of “hybridity” and “performance...
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Disturbing the Neighbors
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 237–245.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Tim Watson This essay is a response to Belinda Edmondson’s Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022), which is an excellent history of literary and performative Creole in the anglophone Caribbean, tracing its roots back to the work songs of enslaved African laborers...
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S’habiller sexy en body string : The French Guianese “Bad Gyal” and the Image of French Caribbean Women
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Rashana Vikara Lydner This essay examines the discourse surrounding respectability politics and the French Guianese “bad gyal” Bamby’s performance of femininity in French Guiana and the wider French Caribbean. It argues that Bamby’s style of s’habiller sexy (dressing sexy) is more than just her way...
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Security Encounters: Negotiating Authority and Citizenship during the Tivoli “Incursion”
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 81–89.
Published: 01 November 2018
...) interactions as extreme examples of “security encounters,” in which security professionals and citizens negotiate specific roles, rights, and responsibilities. Such encounters are political performances: security professionals seek to assert their authority in particular ways, while citizens use various...
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Published: 01 July 2015
Stills from movt nr. 6 , Notes on Afro-Contemporaneity; Destination Inner Space , 2014; performance, fifteen minutes. Photos by Charl Landvreugd
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