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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 77–92.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Corinna McLeod Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place reveals the subalternity of Antigua as a tourist locale; an identity which undermines Antigua's position as a nation. Through the use of a metafictional discourse, Kincaid's narrator deconstructs colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial myths, thereby...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 117–123.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Lauren K. Alleyne © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 LITERARY COMPETITION WINNERS 2010: POETRY
Small Graces
Lauren K. Alleyne
First Place, Poetry
Mama Remembers Mayaro
The dirt tracks splintered with coconut trees
tall...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 118–122.
Published: 01 March 2015
... © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 One of the most remarkable developments in the Caribbean and its diaspora over the past two decades or so is the emergence of a generation of young visual artists working in various media (paint, film, performance) who have been transforming Caribbean visual...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2016
...David Scott © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Insofar as it is a project and not merely a random venture, however professionally and personally rewarding and expertly executed, journal work is characterized by the activation and embodiment of an ethos . The essence of this ethos, I believe...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 174–185.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Trouillot helped prepare the ground for this coup by deriding Aristide as a corrupt and brutal dictator with no popular support, and in his contribution to this Small Axe forum he dismisses Damming the Flood as racist and dishonest propaganda. My response to Trouillot aims to refute these accusations...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.
Published: 01 March 2017
... from Haiti? (Part 2 of “Eulogizing Creoleness? Rereading Éloge de la créolité ” will appear in Small Axe 55, in March 2018.) 4 David Scott, Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014), 5 (italics in original). 3 Bernabé, Chamoiseau...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 80–84.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Vanessa Pérez-Rosario; Ryan Cecil Jobson This essay introduces a new featured section, to be published in Small Axe annually, that explores the critical vocabulary of the field of Caribbean studies. [email protected] [email protected] © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 criticism...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 68–73.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Julio Ramos This brief essay is an introduction to the work of Puerto Rican anarchist and feminist activist and writer Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922) and opens the special section on Capetillo in this issue of Small Axe . [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... historical canon. As more than political activism, the guest editors examine Anton de Kom in this Small Axe platform for Caribbean thought with the hope that these essays will stimulate even more scholarship on De Kom’s life and work and on the Dutch Caribbean more broadly, beyond the borders of the Dutch...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 128–135.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Johnhenry Gonzalez The memory and language of colonial marronage shape the zeitgeist and the wider history of Haiti as nation. This essay takes as its point of departure the recent use of small boats by armed gangs in Haiti to revisit the shipboard dimensions of marronage and the country’s history...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of the provision ground, small plots of land enslaved people and their families used to grow food and, ultimately, forge a connection with the land. The author peels back the layers of Berryman’s scenes, looking beyond what has been rendered visible, countering European representations of landscape that privilege...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 182–192.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Vanessa Agard-Jones As we consider the points of articulation between and among scales of analysis, Michel-Rolph Trouillot's theorization of how small places matter in the world, and further, of how seemingly marginal people might be central to our understanding of systems of power, remains...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 125–137.
Published: 01 March 2014
... reforms on Jamaica's small-farming sector and the congruent significance of those reforms for the Jamaican national populace. The essay then identifies a course for navigating the conditions obtained after the recent crisis in the global economy, in which, despite having surrendered the validity of its...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 141–147.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Vladimir Lucien 2013 Small Axe Literary Competition—First Place, Poetry © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Many times what is on my grandmother's mind is what to cook when she gets home for her husband, the Man's man. We call him Pah-pah: like the sound of two quick slaps, like the sound...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 148–157.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Ruel Johnson 2013 Small Axe Literary Competition—Second Place, Poetry © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 This blue-eye bowjee has lugged her baggage halfway across the wide, wide world, all the way from Heidelberg heading, for field work, to Canefield on the Canje Coast shoulders stooped...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 158–164.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Ruel Johnson 2013 Small Axe Literary Competition—First Place, Short Fiction © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 One minute, I was impenetrable, nothing could touch me. The next, my heart was somehow beating outside my chest, exposed to the elements. —Hank Moody, Californication I...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 165–172.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Lesley-Ann Wanliss 2013 Small Axe Literary Competition—Second Place, Short Fiction © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 “Bryan …,” she called, almost as if it were my name. “Bryan … Bryan …,” the rest of her words stuck behind the breaths of her sobs. “Get up, Get up, Bryan has been shot.” I sat up...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Avery F. Gordon The Hawthorne Archive sends a few fragmented materials to Small Axe about Colin Dayan: a letter, a file note, a commentary on the photographs missing from Dayan's autobiographical writings, and an inventory of keywords. In all, this essay is an emphasis on her ethical-political...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 37–46.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Patricia Noxolo This essay serves as an introduction to a special section of Small Axe on Caribbean in/securities. It begins by offering a threefold insight into the concept of “in/securities”: securities and insecurities are produced as spatially localized and historically contingent...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Through a reading of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place , the essay highlights how the market logics of mid-nineteenth-century imperial liberalization continued to animate new forms of West Indian erasure well into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While Kincaid deploys arguments of imperial neglect...
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