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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Jason Frydman This essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s temporality, futurity, and ideological conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Nadi Edwards This essay reads Kamau Brathwaite’s seminal 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” in terms of its rhetorical politics. Conceptually, the essay’s hybrid and heterogeneous discourses and registers are theorized in terms drawn from Clifford Geertz, Leah Rosenberg, and Mandy...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2021
... from a Jamaican Kumina Queen. This authentic inner plantation statement, it will be observed, attains the quality of poetry. It is my contention that it is poetry. But it is at the same time a statement of fact—as St. Paul’s account of the road to Damascus is a fact. Among the folk, life...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 105–115.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Kelly Baker Josephs This essay is part of a special section on Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” (reprinted in the issue), briefly tracing the dissemination history of Brathwaite’s essay, then focusing on two main lines of argument in it to explore...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205.
Published: 01 February 2006
... and specificity, and the 192 | SX19 • Transnationalism, Diaspora, Politics, and The Caribbean Postcolonial turn toward questions of politics and political economy—are undoubtedly necessary and timely ones, particularly in light of what David Scott refers to as the current “predicament...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2015
....” Imagining other times and possible futures, juxtaposing temporalities and ways of timekeeping, marking temporal breaks, returns, and ruptures, this work helps us ask, What time is it? Whose time is it? Browned by the Jamaican sun, I feel their eyes on me, and I keep my distance, stoosh. Actually, I am...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 39–70.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Bill Schwarz Small Axe Incorporated 2003 C. L. R. James and George Lamming: The Measure of Historical Time Bill Schwarz I believe deep in my bones that the mad impulse which drove Powell to his criminal defeat was largely my doing. I will not have this explained away by talk...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... a critique of human condition is invoked I argue that is now woefully inadequate when faced with the complex terrain of 21st century Caribbean feminist advocacy. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Whose Time Is It? Gender and Humanism in Contemporary Caribbean Feminist Advocacy Michelle V. Rowley...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 123–135.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Given the novel's seeming disregard for the conventional boundaries of, and between, time and space, “the free” can be read as a place (not here), a time (not now), and a condition (not yet). The novel forces us to hold these visions as simultaneously possible. Of course, any reading of Brodber's work...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 1–21.
Published: 01 July 2012
... a clean break and “complete our independence” by claiming as autochthonous the right to kill and mutilate each other, that is to say, continue interminably the time in which the niggers kill one another. Murder prowls the boundaries of colonialism on one side and the other. 65 Murder was, as Fanon...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the abortion of “black man time now” but also a loss of idealism and a growth of a cynical self-serving pragmatism, disturbing features that still scar the Jamaican psychosocial landscape today. Margaret Cezair-Thompson’s The True History of Paradise tells the story of Jean Landing, a dark...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 52–61.
Published: 01 March 2019
... violent, heady, exhilarating, and creative. There endures nonetheless an often-takenfor-grantedness that we narrate this decade through the singular framework of revolutionary time—a time that challenges the stagnation of the existing state of affairs and brings a new cultural-political order into being...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 161–163.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of a Girl Portrait of a Girl US Department of Immigration US Department of Immigration Card Game Card Game © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Things and Time is a body of work composed of sixty photographs portraying street culture in Caribbean American neighborhoods in Miami and New...
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Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 1 “Le poème tué” graffiti, artist unknown at the time, Brouard Street, Port-au-Prince, 2019. Photograph by Guillermina De Ferrari More
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Published: 01 November 2020
Figure 9 Albert Huie, Crop Time , 1955. Oil on hardboard, 34 × 39 in. Collection of the National Gallery of Jamaica. Courtesy of Christine Huie-Roy More
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 155–166.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Densely metaphorical and learned, the essay seemed at odds with the magazine’s goal of introducing the latest literary publications to a general audience at a time when specialized journals were few and far between. In its range of obscure cultural allusions and rhetorical density, the essay seemed indeed...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 164–184.
Published: 01 July 2009
... these, along with the popular visual culture and the news media, forge the visual imaginaries of these moments and the visual memories of the future. The essay also reflects on the role of art in times of social crisis and the ethical questions that surround the artistic representation of violence and trauma...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Roshini Kempadoo This essay is a contribution to the book discussion of Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (2011) by Leon Wainwright. Kempadoo offers an exploration and commentary on the way Wainwright's publication has been structured and conceived, exploring the rationale...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 185–196.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Leon Wainwright This essay reflects on the contribution made by Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (2011) to alternative futures for the Caribbean-focused study of art and its histories. Wainwright emphasizes the need for better attention to the complex “geopolitics of time...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 September 2003
.... THIS ISSUE OF SMALL AXE IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JIM MURRAY (10 APRIL 1949 TO 21 JULY 2003), LATE FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE C.L.R. JAMES INSTITUTE, NEW YORK. small axe Number 14 September 2003 CONTENTS Editorial Comment: Our Times...