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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 139–153.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Michelle Rowley In this paper I examine Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing in order to consider the interdisciplinary synergies that might be realized through a practice of knowledge production which bridges the metaphysical and the material. While the text encourages us to pursue the Sacred...
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in The Artwork of Clara Morera: Afro-Cuban Religious Legacy with a Twist
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 2. Clara Morera, El santo pájaro ( The Sacred Bird ), 2010. Mixed media on canvas, 122 × 147 cm. Photograph by Mary Jane Bent. Courtesy of Alejandro de la Fuente
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 193–199.
Published: 01 March 2010
... natural become the uses of the supernatural. What are the limits of legal thought, and how deeply did it impress and transform the understanding of the sacred, not only for slaves but also for masters? Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Illustration by James Hakewill, from his Picturesque Tour of the Island...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Tracy Robinson This essay explores the expansion of Jacqui Alexander's earlier concept of erotic autonomy through the motif of the Sacred in her new book, and her articulation of what could be described as a Caribbean feminist ethic that demands radical self-determination exercised within self...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
... of the possibilities offered by the sacred. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Crosses/Crossroads/Crossings
Faith Smith
Ab s t r a c t : This essay discusses Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing as framing an
analysis of the curtailment of erotic autonomy in the United States...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 154–166.
Published: 01 October 2007
...; the importance of bringing sex to our engagement of the erotic and to our experience of the Sacred; and the urgency of addressing the analytic and political fissures between Caribbean feminists at home and those abroad . It ends by underscoring the need for a collective politics that re-imagines our deep...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 60–78.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the exhibitions Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (1995) and In Extremis: Death and Life in Twenty-First-Century Haiti (2012). In her commitment to support the creative endeavors of artists living in historically marginalized communities in urban Haiti, Houlberg blurred cultural and professional boundaries, raising...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 99–109.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Figure 2. Clara Morera, El santo pájaro ( The Sacred Bird ), 2010. Mixed media on canvas, 122 × 147 cm. Photograph by Mary Jane Bent. Courtesy of Alejandro de la Fuente ...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 151–164.
Published: 01 October 2008
.../altars dominate with
an aggressive occupation that determines paths of locomotion irrevocably. Drivers shouting
orders and cracking whips over hapless captives may come to mind. This is the kind of sacred
space in which the theater of re-enactment takes place, and anyone who...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and time. The peregrinations that created the religion are a testament to the mobility of the sacred—across various physical and metaphysical sites—which parallels a temporal mobility by which the faith passes fluidly between the past and the present. 1 Through marking the journey and development...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), 1–8.
4 Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique, “Under Ground Realms of Being: Vodoun Magic,” in Donald Cosentino, ed., Sacred Arts of
Haitian Vodou (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1995...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 16–34.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of patriarchal power. Violence of a different kind is invoked in another work that also references Stacy Wilson: a large painting depicting a tall priest-like figure in robes, with what look from a distance like pages of sacred text down his front ( fig. 5 ). The head of the figure is a photograph of a black...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 165–174.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., was becoming widely known more from an anthropological and
spiritual point of view than from an artistic perspective. While it was wonderful to see some
of his paintings in such a groundbreaking exhibition as “The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou”
or on covers of books or journals...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 59–66.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Press, 2010). 10 See Markus Balkenhol, Ernst van den Hemel, and Irene Stengs, eds., The Secular Sacred: Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion , Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); and Stephan Palmié, Wizards and Scientists...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 115–127.
Published: 01 November 2009
... trained as visual artists, had already on their return greatly expanded their research
in the fields of philosophy and aesthetics as applied to art but also as an approach to the
sacred and the factual as founding elements of creation.
Nivor had studied at the Fort-de-France School...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 123–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
... Houlberg, “Magique Marasa: The Ritual Cosmos of Twins and Other Sacred Children,” in Cosentino, Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou , 267–83. 74 Andrew Apter and Lauren Derby, introduction to Activating the Past: History and Memory in the Black Atlantic World (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 72–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
....
Woodside Village as Sacred Space
CJ: In your village community of Woodside, what work have you tried to do over the years
and why?
EB: Well, the work that I have tried to do is to make people aware of the history of kinship.
And to make them aware that their history is the history of the one...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 29–49.
Published: 01 November 2015
....,” in Drewel, Sacred Waters , 354, 352, 351. Alex van Stipriaan also interprets it as a generic name for myriad water spirits in West Africa and the Caribbean. Alex van Stipriaan, “Watramama/Mami Wata: Three Centuries of Creolization of a Water Spirit in West Africa, Suriname and Europe,” Matatu: Journal...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 119–137.
Published: 01 June 2007
... Demoiselles D’Avignon (1907)—recalls,
even as it rejects, commonly represented standards of female beauty. Conversely, in the video
installation Sacred Spaces based on Roberts’s public art sculptures at Clifton Cay, the artist calls
attention to the beauty of the natural environment...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 124–149.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Patricia Mohammed Small Axe Incorporated 2005 The Sign of the Loa
Patricia Mohammed
he loa, or lwa, according to George Eaton Simpson, is the most prominent fi gure in
Vodun’s realm of the sacred. “Many of the loas,” writes Simpson, “are African dei-
Tties who have been...
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