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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the private/public binary that collapses the home into the private sphere, where (White) women are held hostage to oppressive patriarchy. This, too, characterizes Black theorizing in terms of a developing Black consciousness through reflective deliberations. In a social context profuse with social media...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 136–145.
Published: 01 July 2023
... differently configures their relationships to various people, places, and ideas across time and space. These reflections question and challenge what communicative work Maroon does in figuring and prioritizing specific components of a broader cultural and historical nexus. The authors deliberately center...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 98–111.
Published: 01 November 2022
... (heroic feat) and gestos (gestures, movements), offering a powerful trace of her subversive walks and an instance of her own argument. Through her deliberately clothed and performed walks—as part of worker-led and anarchist manifestations and, on her own, as a de facto feminist statement—Luisa Capetillo...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 148–163.
Published: 01 July 2009
... display of sexual mimicry that is both
playful and aggressive. It is now the camera alone that begs, “Perform for me.” Performance
is a form of doubling, reflected in the consciousness and deliberateness of being observed,
and even more so when being recorded...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 164–184.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Veerle Poupeye This essay reflects on how social unrest and violence are responded to in the mainstream visual arts of postcolonial Jamaica. The focus is on two particular moments of crisis: the social unrest and political violence during the Michael Manley administration in the 1970s...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 52–57.
Published: 01 July 2016
... and deliberately provocative act. He later explained the rationale behind the decision as twofold: to control the debate and to prevent giving time to the unnecessary, though spurious, criticism of promoting Western “agendas.” But the Internet is clearly not the priority of these journals, and they are still much...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 70–86.
Published: 01 October 2006
..., and Globalization
She contributes to the aesthetics of bricolage as a deliberate, reflective, and yet improvisatory
process, a dialogue of the fragmentary. Derek Walcott affirmed a similar but significantly dif-
ferent perspective during his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize when he...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 180–198.
Published: 01 March 2017
... 67, nos. 1–2 (1993): 23. Burton cites Glissant, Poétique de la Relation , 103. 36 Antonio Benítez-Rojo, “Three Words toward Creolization,” in Kathleen Balutansky and Marie-Agnès Sourieau, eds., Caribbean Creolization: Reflections on the Cultural Dynamics of Language, Literature, and Identity...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 83–92.
Published: 01 October 2007
... and Puerto Rico periodically report the incidents of the drowned ones and very rarely
on the deliberately sunken boats.
Elia Alba: The “Doll Heads” of Elia Alba reflect her interest in ambiguity and the blurring
of boundaries: natural versus artificial, material versus spiritual. These images, made...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 36–52.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Clare Counihan Counter to many of the critical readings of Breath, Eyes, Memory , this essay argues that Sophie Caco does not in fact succeed in speaking for herself in the novel's final scene, reflecting the text's ambivalent desire to formulate a Haitian identity that will both testify to Haitian...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 88–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of the world community. 7 However, the initiative was not immediately acted on; it was not until the 1991 genocide in the former Yugoslavia that the idea gained traction again. But while the need for an international criminal court was being deliberated, another related judicial formation aimed...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 223–226.
Published: 01 November 2013
....” Using myths to readdress the position of black people in history and portraying powerful characters means redefining not only how black people have been conditioned to exist but also how black people have been conditioned to reflect upon themselves. In accepting the ravaged part of one's self...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): v–x.
Published: 01 February 2007
... correlatively, and reached its conclusions in accordance with its own
deliberate and independent judgment” (1:12). But surely that—deliberation and independent
judgment—is the least that we should have expected; it can’t, justifiably, be the grounds on
which they solicit our appreciation of their work...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 16–37.
Published: 01 February 2008
..., women’s community, collective cultural resistance, that come readily to
Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffin, in another landmark publication, The Empire Writes Back (London: Routledge,
1989), reflected in similar vein on the direction of Caribbean literary (including critical and theoretical...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 63–79.
Published: 01 June 2008
.... At the
same time, it would mean that the deliberate drowning of 150 people was not murder, but merely the
disposition of property in a time of emergency to ensure the preservation of the rest of the “cargo”—a
reasonable interpretation at that time given the law governing contracts of insurance...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 16–30.
Published: 01 November 2020
....” The deliberate obscurity continues when, after finding a quiet place outside during recess where nobody will overhear, Gros-Lombric “commença son initiation avec un signe-la-croix rendu incompréhensible par sa rapidité.” This Catholic gesture is rendered verbally in a compound, hyphenated form that reflects...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... There was a just-so character to it, as though everything had been carefully, deliberately chosen and arranged and now resided exactly where it had always belonged. And though we had never met before, Sylvia, too, was immediately recognizable to me, in her mannered sense of poise and propriety and solidity...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 255–273.
Published: 01 July 2013
.... Similarly, My Guyana (1966–67) takes the European painterly tradition to task once more, this time in the form of homage to Francis Bacon ( fig. 2 ). During his time in England, Bowling had frequently been compared with Bacon; indeed, he had deliberately and self-consciously referenced the older artist...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the way I would like, that is, as a story linked to the literary-intellectual biographies of its founding figures. In a short essay (a kind of announcement, really) published in 1968, Brathwaite reflected on the circumstances that motivated the founding of CAM. When he arrived in Britain in 1966, he...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 175–185.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in the overall climate of backlash and racial hysteria, humanities studies today attest to the radical change that spread across college and university campuses with the black studies movement from 1968 forward. The curricula of the human sciences reflect this radical revaluation of content and conceptualization...
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