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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 20–36.
Published: 01 March 2015
... space and offers them a methodology for destabilizing the world's (post)colonial orders. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 differential repetition petit pays small countries scalar theory postcolonial geography In the early 1990s, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris turned...
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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 (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and economic power and can be found in almost every country of the world. There always seem to be technical ghet- tos. And of course in small countries of one thousand square kilometers, like Martinique, we have immigrants from France who to a certain extent threaten the territorial...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 24–39.
Published: 01 September 2005
... on the small country’s leadership and institutions and on the possible reasons for the endless tragedy axe of a nation sinking ever more deeply into despair. Th us, historic drama may off er some clues for understanding the present and for speculating on the future, since reenacting...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 40–49.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to experience, firsthand, the land that informed the sensibilities of many of her contemporaries. She picked cotton with sharecroppers and worshipped with them in small country churches. She observed the preacher's movements in the pulpit and the congregation's movement in response to him. In other words...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 39–66.
Published: 01 February 2007
... some of the money and paying them meager wages. We teach them that we as one small country do not control the price for bananas internationally.21 In addition, the PRG took measures to ensure that women and girls got an equal opportunity in education. These included...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 176–188.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Martin Munro Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Master of the New: Tradition and Intertextuality in Dany Laferrière’s Pays sans chapeau Martin Munro any Laferrière occupies a very particular place in contemporary Haitian writing. Something of a one-man literary movement...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 100–118.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Catherine Amidon Small Axe Incorporated 2004 From Jamaica to the Diaspora Catherine Amidon he Jamaican pavilion at the Forty-Ninth Biennial in Venice was the result of the eff orts of a small group of individuals to bring Jamaican art into a major interna- tional...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 155–163.
Published: 01 November 2011
... was not just something debated in the realm of a series of maximum leaders but the heritage of a collective struggle made up of actors from different strata of Haitian society, the complex intermingling of which Smith does an admirable job of trying to disentangle. In a small, poor country where few...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2005
... 28 of the 1805 constitution—“At the fi rst warning strike of the cannon, the country disappears and the nation stands up!” small (Au premier coup de canon d’alarme, le pays disparaît et la nation est debouthas never axe been invoked. It has not even been pronounced by any one of our...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Duvalier dictatorship came to power in 1957. Turning our attention to the ways ideological paternalism undergirded the terms under which small nations such as Haiti engaged with the rest of the world will help us understand how and why recognition of these countries’ role in the emergence of cosmopolitan...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 106–122.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Percy C. Hintzen Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Creoleness and Nationalism in Guyanese Anticolonialism and Postcolonial Formation Percy C. Hintzen n analysis of the postcolonial formation of Guyana (formerly the English colony of British Guiana) and its relationship...
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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 (2005) 9 (2): 86–103.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Nicole Roberts Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Haitian and Dominican E/migration and the (Re)construction of National Identity in the Poetry of the Third Generation Nicole Roberts Nous allons vers un monde de nulle part. Cette marche forcée vers un monde uniforme a quelque chose...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 52–57.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Sean Jacobs This essay, more a series of observations, explores the history and politics of the media and analysis online site Africa Is a Country ( africasacountry.com ), which the author founded in 2009. Exploring changes to the blogosphere and social media and their implications for websites...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 167–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Known as the Coral Gardens Incident, it was the result of a small group of Rastafarians rising up against a constant regime of state and elite persecution, and the response of the Jamaican government, which unleashed an assemblage of brutal collective punishments on Rastafarians and suspected...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and multilayered conversations opens up new possibilities for interrogating how tourism narratives have reinforced, produced, and stifled opportunities for diverse, secure, creative, and inclusive social spaces. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Caribbean tourism security geopolitics Jamaica media...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 63–81.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Nigel Westmaas Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Resisting Orthodoxy: Notes on the Origins and Ideology of the Working People’s Alliance Nigel Westmaas INTRODUCTION n the wave of the popular response in the streets of Georgetown, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 141–144.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Christene Clarkson Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Two Poems Christene Clarkson Revival This afternoon, I sat by the beach and let the waves teach me persistence; teach me what it means to be there, to move and yet not change, to embrace the shore, and still keep it so free...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 87–93.
Published: 01 October 2008
.... Haitians who want to see movies on the small screen are often out of luck. Although the country still lives by the radio (194 stations across the nation), many new television channels (18 in total) have appeared, 7 in the capital and 11 in the provinces. With no local produc- tion, these “channels” do...