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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 37–53.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Kezia Page Small Axe Incorporated 2006 “What If He Did Not Have a Sister
[Who Lived in the United States
Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother as
Remittance Text
Kezia Page
In a version of this article presented at a West Indian literature conference in 1998, the title
invoked Western...
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in On the Self-Evidence of Blackness: An Interview with Charl Landvreugd
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 1. Detail from Movement No. 7: On Edgar Cairo , with text, “Look how strong he is! Look how weak he is, Look how human he is.” Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, 2014. Photograph by Irene de Groot © National Museum of World Cultures, Netherlands
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 1 A. Duperly and Sons, Coolies at Worship , ca. 1900. Photographic plate 74 in A. Duperly and Son, Picturesque Jamaica: With Descriptive Text of the Island (Kingston: A. Duperly and Son, n.d.)
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in Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2018
Figure 6 Tomie Arai, Double Happiness , 2004. Mixed-media installation, Bronx Museum of the Arts. Tables, place settings, chairs; light boxes; silk screen; interview text; audio
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 9 and 10. Archival Dialectics (detail), 2018. Two-sided black-and-white photocopies—one side with image of wax rubbings of coral stones; one side with archival text on inverse of rubbings image—displayed in two stacks. Courtesy of the artist.
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Published: 01 November 2019
Figures 9 and 10. Archival Dialectics (detail), 2018. Two-sided black-and-white photocopies—one side with image of wax rubbings of coral stones; one side with archival text on inverse of rubbings image—displayed in two stacks. Courtesy of the artist.
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 64–77.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Natalie L. Belisle This essay mines the concept of untranslatability in two texts by Eduardo Lalo: Los países invisibles and La inutilidad. The analysis interrogates the juridical implications of translation within the “world republic of letters,” which ostensibly accrues literary capital to texts...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 62–76.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Rachel L. Mordecai Despite burgeoning interest in the cultural politics of the Jamaican 1970s, little critical attention has been paid to texts engaging that era in a popular-fiction mode. Starting from the conviction that popular-fiction texts potentially offer new ways of construing...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 17–34.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Simona Bertacco This essay weaves together translation and postcolonial literary studies to propose a translational model of reading for Caribbean literature. Translation and creolization provide the conceptual and aesthetic lens for reading Caribbean literary texts: If translation is an apt model...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Anthony Bogues Arguing that An Intellectual History of the Caribbean is an important text in the emerging field of Caribbean intellectual history, this essay suggests that missing from this important text is the working through of an intellectual history that grapples with black religious practices...
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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 (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 23–42.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Curdella Forbes Curdella Forbes deploys a complex of historically marked territorial metaphors— plot, plantation, squatting, trespass , and transgression —to read two apparently different texts, Maryse Condé's quasi-tragic 1976 novel Heremakhonon , which is set on the African continent...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Curdella Forbes This examination of Marlon James's novel The Book of Night Women and a selection of Clovis Brown's newspaper cartoons posits these Jamaican-authored works as texts that instantiate a uniquely Caribbean aesthetics of horror in their response to historical and contemporary events...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 139–153.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Michelle Rowley In this paper I examine Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing in order to consider the interdisciplinary synergies that might be realized through a practice of knowledge production which bridges the metaphysical and the material. While the text encourages us to pursue the Sacred...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 133–148.
Published: 01 June 2008
... but also a pithy commentary on the structure of the nation-state, meaning all nation-states, not only the polity of Haiti. The text was consequently misread by literary critics whose stereotype of Haitians and belief in nationalism influenced their mean-spirited dismissals of the novel. This paper rereads...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 179–190.
Published: 01 June 2008
... practice than to the text's demonstrable failings. He uses the occasion to meditate on the psychopathology that informs the writing of a scholarly critique of a peer's work and the tension that such a task may entail. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Conversation Manqué:
On Judging Someone Else’s Book...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 41–49.
Published: 01 March 2009
... those preserved in family albums and the throwaway colloquialisms of letters, intimate voices that are often overlooked. Hand tinted silver prints and Xeroxes, & text.11x 24x20inch. Small Axe Incorporated 2009 Oceans Apart
Ingrid Pollard
The Atlantic Ocean as physical and psychic space...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 1–11.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Bongie (Islands and Exiles, 1998) and Peter Hallward (Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing between the Singular and the Specific, 2002), and argue that, contrary to their assumption that `late' Glissant has abandoned political commitment, the later texts explore the possibilities of new kinds of political...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
... function as theoretical categories of lesser priority in the discussion of a racial diaspora imaginary, despite the hypervisibility of certain notions of black masculinity and femininity in popular cultural forms that travel between home and abroad. With readings of one canonical diaspora text, Frantz...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 37–50.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Valérie Loichot This essay sheds light on family relations in Octavia Butler's fantasy neo-slave narrative Kindred (1979) through Édouard Glissant's theories of kinship and Relation. This comparative gesture thus relate Glissant's Caribbean texts to an unlikely kin, a Californian African American...
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