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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 64–79.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Ifeona Fulani Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Caribbean Women Writers and the Politics
of Style: A Case for Literary Anancyism
Ifeona Fulani
n the introduction to Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature, Carole
Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory Fido invoke the concept...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Bloomfield. Brathwaite’s style effectively instantiates “Caribbean Man” as an exemplary model of the practice of Caribbean studies. The essay is posited as a palimpsestic text, haunted by Brathwaite’s prior creative and critical texts as well as the work of other Caribbean writers and intellectuals...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 169–186.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of as the shaping of his particular style of radical political will. The moment was that of an unprecedented strike meeting in Lionel Town in the sugarcane belt of southern Clarendon in 1959, jointly organized by the two principal and sometimes violently rival trade unions in the Jamaican sugar industry...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Joy Mahabir Styles of Indo-Caribbean jewelry created during indentureship have been continually reproduced up to the present. Exploring the demand and desire for these styles, this essay suggests that there is a communal aesthetic underlying the production of the jewelry, influenced...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 79–89.
Published: 01 July 2024
... this convergence in historical continuity with the resistive potential of swag as manifested in Caribbean expressive performative traditions, including Jamaica’s Junkanoo . The same subversive style ties together the Junkanoo reveler captured by Isaac Belisario and Carolyn Cooper’s verbal wit and sartorial...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 109–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
... on Brazilian racial identities and cultural politics. In conclusion, it proposes that Hall was a thinker whose occasionally preacherlike style indicated an openness to his audience and whose writing was structured like music. 21 Hall, “What Is This ‘Black,’” 470. 20 Stuart Hall, in Gupta Sunil...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 89–99.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Caroline Mackenzie Poking fun at the traditional American style of hard-boiled crime fiction, this satirical piece follows two misogynistic bounty hunters through the Trinidadian rainforest as they track down the people responsible for humiliating a ruthless mogul of the poultry industry...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 22–43.
Published: 01 July 2017
... in which sympathy can be taught and his graffiti murals as instructive of a broader and more engaged public. By casting Jerry's oeuvre as a form of sympathetic education that draws on Haitian strategies for bringing people into affective and social accord, this essay elucidates his distinct style...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 142–150.
Published: 01 October 2008
... features the art of Duval Carrié, whose oeuvre moves beyond the simply, flat, “primitive” styles associated with Haitian art to idiosyncratic installations, paintings, and sculptures that speak to the powerful visual and cultural elements of contemporary Haitian art. ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 59–71.
Published: 01 November 2012
... aesthetic, and her ethical and ideological frameworks, assists in navigating the rich terrain of her work. The generic fusions that comprise Brodber's writing style demand a negotiation between philosophy and discourses of therapy and healing that her fiction must serve. Attending to these fusions one can...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 186–202.
Published: 01 July 2013
... architecture our purpose is critical clarity, we may wish to consider it not purely through the tired perspective history or style habitually used but as a dynamic component of Caribbean culture, an operation mediated and influenced by the individual, the local, and the global. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 69–77.
Published: 01 November 2010
... considers the case of Haitian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and suggests that this, one of the oldest Francophone literary traditions, can be thought of as a precursor to “littérature-monde.” Focusing on questions of language, style, and relationships with the metropole, the paper situates...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 121–134.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Charles Forsdick The article explores Edouard Glissant's literary, intellectual and political activity over the past decade in the light of Edward W. Said's concept of `late style'. There is no intention to present the Martiniquan writer and intellectual as an exemplum of Said's categorization...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 108–114.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Celia Britton In this personal tribute to Glissant Britton describes some of the most resonant themes of his novels (the idea of changing while still remaining, the significance of place, and his exploration of madness) and the “opaque” poetic characteristics of his style, which extend from...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 195–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution uses extensive primary source documentation alongside an evocative prose style that allows for speculative possibilities. Despite silences in the historical record, how might free and enslaved blacks in Saint-Domingue and Cuba have...
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Published: 01 November 2015
Figure 1.1. Fred Wilson, Metalwork 1793–1880 , 1992–93. Silver vessels in Baltimore Repoussé style, 1830–80, maker unknown; slave shackles, c. 1793–1872, maker unknown, made in Baltimore. From the exhibition Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson , the Contemporary and Maryland
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
... rhetorical style and her readiness to confront and challenge conservative shibboleths regarding Jamaican popular culture. 1 Cooper is widely regarded both locally and internationally as the intellectual foremother of the academic field of reggae studies at UWI because of her ardent advocacy...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 53–70.
Published: 01 March 2012
... enjoyed a close relationship, and Turton acknowledged Newel-
Lewis as his mentor. Newel-Lewis died in 1991.
3 The nature and style of the language and manner of expression employed by Newel-Lewis in this letter may be viewed
as aspirational or affected in its self-conscious attempt...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 33–48.
Published: 01 July 2023
... as a Young Man is deliberate. Famously published in serialized form in the Egoist (between February 1914 and September 1915) at Ezra Pound’s insistence, the novel is emblematic not only for its modernist style but also for its hero, Stephen Dedalus, who, like Hall and his contemporaries, was grappling...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 243–254.
Published: 01 July 2013
.... The practice has been carried out for decades but has become more mainstream in the past five years, most notably in 2011 when Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel likened bleaching, which he practices and condones, to simply another element of style. Instead of readily denouncing bleaching...
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