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Roshini Kempadoo, Face Up , 2015. Screenshots from one short <span class="search-highlight">story</span> (“Deird...

Roshini Kempadoo, Face Up , 2015. Screenshots from one short story (“Deird...

in After Indenture: Three Photo Stories > Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2017
Roshini Kempadoo, Face Up , 2015. Screenshots from one short story (“Deirdre”). All images courtesy of the artist More
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Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings

Hilda Lloréns
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-74
Published: 01 February 2006
...Hilda Lloréns Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Dislocated Geographies: A Story of Border Crossings Hilda Lloréns Sunrise of the fi rst day and the passengers were already acting as though they belonged to one family. It was not long before we came to know each other’s life...
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“Call the Police. Call the Army. Call God. And Let's Have One Helluva Big Story”: On Writing Caribbean Art Histories After Postcoloniality

Krista A. Thompson
Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 169–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-1-169
Published: 01 February 2008
... the Police. Call the Army. Call God. And Let’s Have One Helluva Big Story”: On Writing Caribbean Art Histories After Postcoloniality Krista A. Thompson Ab s t r a c t : Are there intrinsic and unique ways of representing the “visual atmospherics” of the Caribbean? Might...
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Ghost Story

Barbara Jenkins
Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 170–177.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665605
Published: 01 July 2012
... story. When we meet up at one another house for breakfast after church on a Sunday morning, was always a chorus of complaints about Ghost. Marjorie say one time she hearing the dogs barking and she gone outside to check. The dogs and them running around and around a orange tree and she look up and see...
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After Indenture: Three Photo Stories

Roshini Kempadoo, Sharlene Khan, Wendy Nanan
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 135–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156846
Published: 01 July 2017
...Roshini Kempadoo, Face Up , 2015. Screenshots from one short story (“Deirdre”). All images courtesy of the artist ...
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When Tía Ate the Telegram: Defiance, Solidarity, and Multipoetic Sensorial Listening

Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901724
Published: 01 July 2022
...Petra R. Rivera-Rideau This essay applies Ren Ellis Neyra’s concepts of defiance, solidarity, and mulitpoetic sensorial listening from The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020) to the author’s own family story about how her great-aunt ate the telegram announcing her...
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Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter

Éric Morales-Franceschini
Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 45–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583404
Published: 01 November 2021
...Éric Morales-Franceschini Whether emplotted as epic or as tragedy, the tales told about a nation’s revolutionary past do not tend to elicit laughter as much as awe and solemnity. This is the case with Cuba’s national epic, the story of its nineteenth-century wars for independence (1868–98...
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Displacements: The Jamaican 1950s

Deborah A. Thomas
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749770
Published: 01 November 2020
... and economic affairs. It argues that by the end of the long 1950s, the earlier-twentieth-century story of an emergent civil society in Jamaica was displaced by the story of political society. The result has been a formal decolonization that lacked some of the decolonial social and cultural visions of earlier...
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Her Name Was Doña Margot

César Colón-Montijo
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 36–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384198
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Through her bomba and plena compositions, she helped forge modern black Puerto Rican music amid the rapid industrialization of Puerto Rico after the 1950s. However, her story has been overshadowed by the aura of her son, the legendary Afro–Puerto Rican singer Ismael “Maelo” Rivera (1931–87). Although Doña...
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“ Macandal. Makandal. Mackandal .” Man and Protean Pluralema

Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 24–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583390
Published: 01 November 2021
... Rueda’s 1998 Las metamorfosis de Makandal , in which François Makandal is imagined as a protean god. The author argues that Rueda’s Makandal is best understood as the embodiment of the vanguard poetic movement, Pluralismo . The Maroon becomes a central figure in the island’s story, as well as a figure...
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Poui before Rain

Ira Mathur
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 100–114.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703332
Published: 01 July 2019
...Ira Mathur As the Me Too movement gathers momentum, the conversation about the historical exploitation of women and sexual power dynamics has spread to Caribbean literature. This story uses the Poui blossom that flowers in the dry season in Trinidad, an island in the Caribbean, as a metaphor...
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Archive as Offering: Haiti and Historical Possibility

Grace L. Sanders Johnson
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211808
Published: 01 November 2022
...Grace L. Sanders Johnson This essay tells the story of Estrea Jean Gilles, a nineteen-year-old girl who was killed by Marines during the US occupation of Haiti (1915–34). With the crash described as an “unavoidable” accident and the documents cataloged under “miscellaneous,” Estrea’s archived life...
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Familial Longings: Trans-Caribbean Narratives of Dictatorship and the Latin American Imaginary

Daynalí Flores-Rodríguez
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 69–85.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912334
Published: 01 November 2019
... legitimacy based on exclusionary practices, disrupt everyday practices of cultural consumption, and empower Caribbean subjects to claim agency over their own stories and experiences. In effect, Danticat refers in her essay to the ways Caribbean discourse is complicit—by omission...
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Decolonial Multilingualism in the Caribbean

Shawn C. Gonzalez
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 11–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190514
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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Caribbean Voices and the Communicative Failure of the West Indies Federation

Glyne Griffith
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 87–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190613
Published: 01 March 2020
... that the narrative failure of federation was prefigured in the widely and more persuasively articulated story of territorial nationalism that was presented in much of the literature and editorial commentary broadcast to the region via Caribbean Voices in the decade and a half leading up to federation...
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Genres of History and the Practice of Loss: Attending to Silence in Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies

Marisa J. Fuentes
Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8912830
Published: 01 March 2021
... to narrate the violence of the British empire through family stories. The long-intertwined histories of England and the Caribbean inevitably lead to slavery’s archives, and in the final section of the book, Carby describes the lives of her earliest ancestors on a Jamaican coffee plantation. In response...
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Transformista , Travesti , Transgénero : Performing Sexual Subjectivity in Cuba

M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901597
Published: 01 July 2022
...M. Myrta Leslie Santana This essay considers the stories of Blaccucini and Ángel Daniel, two Black transgender drag performers from Cuba, and dwells on the relationship they imagine between their work as performers and their subjectivities as trans people. The author situates these narratives...
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Oceans Apart

Ingrid Pollard
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 41–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2008-005
Published: 01 March 2009
... the juxtapositions of various voices this work examines how the legacy of black families in the Caribbean connects with the stories of European maritime `hero's, such as Frances Drake, Christopher Columbus, Walter Raleigh and James Cook. Images of state sanctioned and educational authorities are placed alongside...
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Dieu est mon pilote à Tanqueray

Andrea E. Shaw
Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 154–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1334140
Published: 01 July 2011
...Andrea E. Shaw “Dieu est mon pilote à Tanqueray” is a short story about a young man named Lemuel and his journey from Haiti to South Florida. As Lemuel prepares for the trip, the ship's captain shows him the sail that is made out of material from a discarded billboard. On the sail is a handsome...
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“Comradeship of the More Advanced Races”: Marcus Garvey and the Brotherhood Movement in Britain, 1913–14

Robert A. Hill
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 50–70.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665434
Published: 01 March 2013
... to tell the story of Garvey's involvement and association with the Brotherhood movement, this essay also suggests that Garvey's patrons in the movement financed his return to Jamaica but that the outbreak of World War I interrupted their support and thus the implementation of his plan for a Jamaican...
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