... frustrates the possibilities of movement for the constituents of the larger community such urbane travelers represent. © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 Floating Islands: Spectatorship and the Body Politic in the Traveling Subjectivities of John Edgar Wideman and Edwidge Danticat Myriam J. A. Chancy...

...Obika Gray Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica Obika Gray RETHINKING THE IDENTITY OF POWER he huge and continuing social crisis in Jamaica has occasioned an outpouring of commentaries, most notably from journalists...

..., it is this man's family, and his leadership in the community, that creates the foundation for his everyday negotiation of life and politics. And here is where the interventions of Jaffe and Roberts come back into play. Each, in a different way, is advocating for a view of citizenship as a process...

..., Politics, and The Caribbean Postcolonial Timothy Chin Shalini Puri’s The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity represents a salutary critical intervention in several important respects. To begin with, Puri’s focus on Caribbean hybridities counters...

...Edward L. Cox Small Axe Incorporated 2007 William Galwey Donovan and the Struggle for Political Change in Grenada, 1883–1920 Edward L. Cox Most studies of political and constitutional change in early twentieth-century Grenada have invariably centered on the activities of T...

...Ashley Dawson Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Dub Poetry and the Political Aesthetics of Carnival in Britain Ashley Dawson British dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ) moved to Britain from Jamaica on the cusp of adolescence in 1963. He arrived...

...Jana Evans Braziel In her contribution, Braziel resists Torres-Saillant's valorization of diaspora as the anti-dote to national paradigms. As an organizing rubric, “Caribbean diaspora” obscures nationality, class, race, gender, sexuality, and political economy as striating diasporas and diasporic...

...Celia M. Britton Critical work on Glissant often divides his writing into two periods: before and after the publication of Le Discours antillais in 1981. In the first he focuses mainly on Martinique and its social, political and cultural problems, while the second broadens out, via the concept...

...Nick Nesbitt The contemporaneous publication of Alex Dupuy's The Prophet and the Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Peter Hallward's Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment in 2007 marks a watershed in contemporary Haitian Studies. Together, these two critically engaged...

...Anthony Bogues Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Politics, Nation and PostColony: Caribbean Inflections Anthony Bogues For if the history of Caribbean society is that of a dual relation Between plantation and plot, the two poles which originate in a single Historical process...

... is political in a non- traditional way. Many people, however, may not see our work as a form of political activ- ity. We enlighten people about local authorities, policies, the government and things like that. . . . It’s a way of politicizing people 3 3 . * ese terms are used...

...Paget Henry Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro- Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics Paget Henry must begin by thanking Brian Meeks, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Patrick Goodin, and Claudette Anderson for taking the time to put down so clearly...

..., Raphaël Confiant, and Jean Bernabé. Éloge de la créolité has been much discussed and critiqued in relation to Antillean politics and literature; its claim to replace essentialist racial identities with an ever-evolving diversalité has been disputed by a variety of other authors from the Caribbean...

...Belinda Edmondson Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Public Spectacles: Caribbean Women and the Politics of Public Performance Belinda Edmondson e race rises as its women rise. ey are the true standard of its elevation. We are trying to produce cultured men without asking...

..., online presences) and a whole range of activist, political, and legal discourse from the anglophone, francophone, hispanophone, and Dutch Caribbean. Island Bodies also aims for and goes an exceptional distance toward achieving true nuanced inclusiveness in Caribbean scholarship, closely reading...

...David Scott Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Political Rationalities of the Jamaican Modern David Scott Clientelism in the Th ird World is more than a device to win votes for competing parties. It is a mechanism by which to institutionalize a power structure. —Carl...

...Ifeona Fulani Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Caribbean Women Writers and the Politics of Style: A Case for Literary Anancyism Ifeona Fulani n the introduction to Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature, Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido invoke the concept...

...Michael Hanchard Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Translation, Political Community, and Black Internationalism: Some Comments on Brent Hayes Edwards’s The Practice of Diaspora Michael Hanchard rent Edwards’s Th e Practice of Diaspora is an important text, expanding and com...

...Nadi Edwards This essay reads Kamau Brathwaite’s seminal 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” in terms of its rhetorical politics. Conceptually, the essay’s hybrid and heterogeneous discourses and registers are theorized in terms drawn from Clifford Geertz, Leah Rosenberg, and Mandy...

... by postindependence nations against their non-heteronormative citizen subjects. Mimi Sheller and Maja Horn variously explore these moves in a Jamaican and Dominican context, respectively. See M. Jacqui Alexander, “Not Just (Any) Body Can Be a Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality, and Postcoloniality in Trinidad...