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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93.
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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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 169–181.
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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Published: 01 July 2024
Figure 7 Is De Powah to Change , 2023. Story block of watercolor and stone paper, shells, beads, wires, paillettes, lino print, and encaustic wax; 5 × 4 × 4 in.
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Published: 01 July 2024
Figure 8 Cobo Levay , 2023. Story block of watercolor and stone paper, shells, beads, wires, paillettes, lino print, and encaustic wax; 5 × 4 × 4 in.
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Published: 01 July 2024
Figure 9 Let the Love Out , 2023. Story block of watercolor and stone paper, shells, beads, wires, paillettes, lino print, and encaustic wax; 5 × 4 × 4 in.
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Published: 01 July 2024
Figure 10 And Leave Signs , 2023. Story block of watercolor and stone paper, shells, beads, wires, paillettes, lino print, and encaustic wax; 5 × 4 × 4 in.
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 170–177.
Published: 01 July 2012
... to exchange a few words with a person who spending more time in your yard than you. Everyone in our suburban area of houses scrambling along the face of the steep hill slope have a favourite Ghost story. When we meet up at one another house for breakfast after church on a Sunday morning, was always...
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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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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 135–150.
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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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
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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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 45–62.
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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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 24–44.
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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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 100–114.
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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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
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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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 36–49.
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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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 41–49.
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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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 154–163.
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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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 50–70.
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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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
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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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 87–99.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the oppression and exploitation of people on the basis of “race” and class, both during the period of slavery and after its abolition. Although he became known as a national hero in Suriname, in the former colonial metropole of the Netherlands his name, work, and life story were relatively unknown. In 2020...
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