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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
Published: 01 March 2022
... ; and Elegguas and his unpublished third poetry trilogy, Missa Solemnis , Rwanda Poems , and Dead Man Witness , commemorating and trying to rise beyond what he called his “cultural lynching.” The essay looks at Brathwaite’s online/print Sycorax voice and the politico-philosophico-cultural concept of tidalectics...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 163–176.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Martin Munro This essay reads Madison Smartt Bell's Haitian trilogy in the context of contemporary Haitian literature, and considers why Haitian writers have tended not to evoke the revolution in their work, and why it is an American author has produced the most ambitious work of Haitian historical...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 1–15.
Published: 01 November 2020
... blindspots in his Trilogie tropicale . These exuberant works, which think through the effects of modernity, globalization, and cultural domination on contemporary Martinique, have been largely ignored, perhaps because they do not follow the poetic principles outlined in the Éloge . Rather than treating them...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 40–51.
Published: 01 September 2005
...),
and Fonds des Nègres (1961). But the climate of intolerance and violence at the time left
the writer little choice but to leave. Haitian literary critic Franck Laraque, who knew
Chauvet personally, speaks of her as an exciting, beautiful, vibrant woman, who after
the publication of her trilogy...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 86–98.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., West Indian Poetry, 1900–1970: A Study in Cultural Decolonisation (Kingston: Savacou Publications, 1971); “The Sixties and Seventies,” in Bruce King, ed., West Indian Literature (London: Macmillan, 1995), 63–75; “A History of Poetry,” in James A. Arnold et al., eds., A History of Literature...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
... alternative practices of listening and soundmaking, they have marginalized black experience. Caribbean noise, formed out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, has been excluded from informing those alternative practices. The depths of sonic experience revealed by soundscapes of Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 145–164.
Published: 01 March 2022
...-driven oppression. Kamau asks us how this happened and how it is done. He answers these questions in the way his work engages with death and life. Also Kamau teaches us to ask what the form is for what we want to say before we try to say it. He was instinctively interdisciplinary, combining poetry...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 108–110.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Brathwaite’s X/Self had followed Mother Poem (1977) and Sun Poem (1982); the trilogy was republished as Ancestors (New York: New Directions, 2001). 2 See J. Edward Chamberlin, Come Back to Me, My Language: Poetry and the West Indies (1993; repr., London: Peepal Tree, 2019), 190. ...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 174–185.
Published: 01 July 2011
... monograph Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry (2008). The positions Smith and Breiner ascribe to Thomas and Roach, respectively, articulate an enduring Caribbean contradiction between an aspiration to erudition on the one hand and the urgency of self-representation on the other...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 175–178.
Published: 01 October 2008
... Festival in 2002 for his body of work and his
documentary Courage de femme. In March 2007, Le Président a-t-il le sida? won the Prix Paul
Robeson at the Ouagadougou Film and Television Festival in Burkina Faso.
A. James Arnold, since publication of his Modernism and Negritude: The Poetry and Poet...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of “Caribbean Man” is infused with Brathwaite’s propensity for elaborating cartographies and spatial paradigms that revisit and echo ideas and motifs of other Caribbean writers and intellectuals. The prologue, like much of Brathwaite’s poetry in Islands (the last book of his The Arrivants trilogy...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
... and Caribbean allusions; the poem’s Akan and wider West African and continental resources were contemporary as well as “traditional,” not consigning the African continent to some sort of grounding “past”; and in such an exploration (for the poetry, as for the critic) there was no “outside” or “beyond...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 86–97.
Published: 01 July 2023
...-perfect, echoing from deep within and far beyond her body. In my earliest memory of it, she is reciting Anglo-Saxon poetry to my undergraduate English honors class at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Our 1970s cohort was among the first to benefit from a new course in West Indian literature, which...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of poetry, cultural history, and cultural theory became clear. It was then that I came to understand what so many had before, that his was one of the most finely creative consciousnesses of the twentieth century. For much of his last decade, illness confined Kamau to his home, and though we were both...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 92–97.
Published: 01 July 2016
... on creolistics, sexuality, gender and language, language policy, antislavery and colonial aesthetics, dialogue and crisis in public education, and agency and intervention, among others, as well as a trilogy on Puerto Rico (floating homeland), Quisqueya (the Dominican Republic “extended”), and Global Cuba/ Cuba...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 176–188.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Chauvet’s trilogy Amour, Colère et Folie:
Not only does Laferrière’s title echo Chauvet’s word amourr, it also replicates the primal scene
of the grotto-esque, of writers shut away in a tiny, fi lthy room. Th e word crasseux (fi lthy) recurs
constantly throughout the text...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in Barbadian dialect, as in the conversations between the boys, in
the discussions in the barbershop, in the shared intimacies of the women, and in the
convergence of dialect, poetry, and modernist interior monologue that comprises the
heightened oracular rendering of Pa’s dream.
Here in this fi rst...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 124–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Rohlehr, Notebook #8, 1 July 1987. 21 See Jean D’Costa, “The Poetry of Edward Brathwaite,” Jamaica Journal 2, no. 3 (1968): 24–28; Dash, review, Journal of West Indian Literature . D’Costa writes of Kamau’s (mis)use of African words, phrases, and concepts in “Masks,” a fake poem about a fake...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 87–95.
Published: 01 March 2020
... for the poetry Swanzy approved for broadcast as for the prose fiction excerpts that were read on the program. The figures of the peasant and the urban poor functioned symbolically to stand in for landlessness and dispossession in the British Caribbean. This symbolic landlessness, in turn, represented a literary...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 50–63.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Christopher T. Bonner This essay interrogates the relationship between politics and literary genre in Marie Vieux Chauvet's Colère , the under-studied second movement of her trilogy Amour, colère, folie (1968). Specifically, it seeks to demonstrate that Chauvet's formation in theater is central...
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