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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 45–51.
Published: 01 July 2016
...—that it had not died and could be a viable option for their efforts and, in time, a preferable one. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. modernism specialization standardization conformism...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Patricia de Santana Pinho This article analyzes anecdotes, jokes, standards of beauty, color categories, and media representations of “mixed-race” individuals to assess the junctions and disjunctions of whiteness and blackness in Brazil. While the multiple and contradictory meanings of “racial...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 226–236.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Supriya M. Nair This essay discusses Belinda Edmondson’s Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022). The author shows how Edmondson challenges Standard English dismissals of anglophone Caribbean vernaculars as an inferior form of English and reorients the historical...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
Published: 01 November 2018
... children. Yet such institutions are ostensible forms of “care.” They hold black children’s bodies. Their metrics hold black children to standards of whiteness. They hold black children as their representational property. Black children become the “meager” representations of school failure and also...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 11–21.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Republic and Jamaica: the anthology Palabras de una isla / Paroles d’une île , Juan Bosch’s story “Luis Pie,” and the Groundwork Theater Company’s Fallen Angel and the Devil Concubine . The author argues that these texts emphasize different critical priorities from the standard concerns of theorists...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 193–202.
Published: 01 November 2013
... standards of presumably universal human relevance. Trouillot's important intervention in Western conceptions of history and historiography in Silencing the Past notwithstanding, the essay argues that the distinction he draws between “historicity 1” and “historicity 2” betrays his struggle with the continued...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 18–35.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Maja Horn This essay addresses the limits of conventional Western political categories for apprehending postcolonial Caribbean political landscapes. Specifically, it suggests that in the case of the Dominican Republic standard political differentiations of periods of “dictatorship” and “democracy...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 17–34.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of the shout” can be of use today in exploring alternative modes of reading literary texts that flaunt a movement of words between standard and creolized forms of a European language—English in the texts under analysis here—because it conveys an understanding of language itself, in the Caribbean, as Creole...
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The Operations of the Closet and the Discourse of Unspeakable Contents in Black Fauns and My Brother
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2006
... standard inherent in the
defence of her heterosexual promiscuity on the basis of it being a “natural vice,” Christophine
interjects: “It look to me as if it natural for a woman make that way. It look to me like they
make so.”19 Apart from her obvious attempt to exclude herself by the use...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 215–225.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the speech of either end. Some live comfortably in this position, employing the folk talk in private or informal life, but switching to something closer to standard English in business or public life. Others—‘old-time Jamaicans’—though brought up with standard English can also handle the folk talk...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 128–142.
Published: 01 November 2020
... that in their own mind, the work that they’re doing is on a different standard to what it would have been if they were untrained. They themselves would be better and people would regard them better.” 72 Bailey’s conceptualization of black ladyhood was inegalitarian, second, because while she regarded...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 87–95.
Published: 01 March 2020
... with the standardization of middle-class mores and values. In terms of literary expectation, such standardization included a preference for standard English and for literary content that valorized middle-class perspectives. However, this was not the sort of literature that Swanzy promoted on Caribbean Voices...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): v–viii.
Published: 01 October 2008
... are made by walking
—Antonio Machado
In many respects this is our motto, our cri de guerre, you might say, our standard. From
its formal inception as a journal project in March 1997, Small Axe has always been—
and self-consciously so—a work-in-progress, an ongoing...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 50–74.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Witness Account of Shame and Horror (London: Paradigm, 2007); and Alfred W. McCoy, A Question of Torture: CIA
Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (New York: Metropolitan, 2006). Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris’s Standard
Operating Procedure (New York: Penguin, 2008...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 90–106.
Published: 01 November 2014
... for deliberate choice and complicated curations between Creoles and standardized European languages. Frequently written between tongues, then, this linguistic and literary form of creoleness calls on readers to, consciously or otherwise, engage in continuous translation as they navigate these bilingual...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., including notions of freedom that continue to be used to justify conquest.8
I will also explore some of the alternative historical narratives that distinguish each text.
It must be noted that all three novels defy standard genre analysis. Forgetting, although
it can be read as a pastiche, lacks...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 105–115.
Published: 01 November 2021
... but also for conveying our research to others. Caribbean studies has required scholars to push against standard academic models to make our own flexible models that enable us to not only do our work but also communicate that work in ways that do not undo it. I have three examples for consideration...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
... reject traditional standards of beauty, femininity, and social expectations. For the artist, these figures become like the drolleries seen in the margins of medieval manuscripts. Rendered small, they act as outsized challenges to the reduced roles occupied by women in contemporary visual culture...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 178–182.
Published: 01 September 2001
... a conduit through which reconciliation fl ows, a place where love is allowed to
enter.
Fulani’s narrative shifts eff ortlessly between standard English and Jamaican Creole.
In her acknowledgements she thanks “Dr. Carolyn Cooper for introducing me to the
Cassidy system for writing Jamaican Creole...
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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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