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In Transition: The Bahamas at Mid-Century
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 147–158.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Roland Rose In Transition:
The Bahamas
at Mid-Century
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small axe 55 • March 2018 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-4379020 © Roland Rose
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Intellectuals and Social Change: Brian Meeks and Transitions in Caribbean Political Thought
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2016
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Rewriting Dr. No in 1962: James Bond and the End of the British Empire in Jamaica
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 56–76.
Published: 01 July 2015
...James Robertson “Rewriting Dr. No ” reappraises the unexpected success of the first James Bond film and its depictions of colonial Jamaica just prior to independence. Recasting Ian Fleming's novel into a film prompted rewritings and alterations. Some reflect the transition to a script; others...
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Peter Abrahams’s Island Fictions for Freedom
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
...— This Island Now (1966) and The View from Coyaba (1985)—fictionalize the transition to independence in the anglophone Caribbean and how that transition related to the set of concerns unfolding across the rest of the black world. This essay traces Abrahams’s thought on questions of race and decolonization...
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Rastafari, Communism, and Surveillance in Late Colonial Jamaica
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in what Nettleford could not have interpreted at the time. Using surveillance reports from the “migrated archives” in the UK, the author shows that the intensifying concern with anticommunism that grew throughout the 1950s undergirded a transition in the approach toward Rastafari on the part...
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Circuits of Political Prophecy: Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Tosh, and the Black Radical Imaginary
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Carter Mathes This article examines transnational circulations of Afro-Jamaican and African-American political culture during 1960s and 1970s (roughly encompassing Jamaican independence, the transitions between Black Power and post–Black-Power era United States, and the year of escalating political...
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Rhizomes and the Space of Translation: On Edouard Glissant's Spiral Retelling
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 100–112.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Max Hantel “The intellectual journey,” Edouard Glissant reminds us, “is destined to have a geographical itinerary.” This essay considers Glissant's insistence on a poetics of landscape in the case of translation, a practice that intertwines linguistic transition with the spatial residue of its...
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Erotics in Medias Res: Topping Caribbean Studies from the Bottom?
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 159–168.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Jafari S. Allen This short appreciation of Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom by Mimi Sheller—one of the leading theorists of mobility studies and the author of numerous works that have expanded our understanding of transits to and around the Caribbean—emphasizes...
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From New World to Abeng : George Beckford and the Horn of Black Power in Jamaica, 1968-1970
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Robert A. Hill This essay examines the role played by George Beckford in grappling critically with the complicated legacy of the plantation system. It focuses on the transition from his role in the New World group to his participation in the Abeng newspaper group in Jamaica, in 1969. The essay...
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The Resistance of the Lost Body
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
... chart Wynter's intellectual journey and rehearse the progression from a cultural concern to a seemingly more profound interrogation of the human, this essay suspends this narrative transition in order to traverse the conceptual field from which Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” emerges. Focusing...
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Journal Work: Africa Is a Country
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 52–57.
Published: 01 July 2016
... focusing on the African continent and its diaspora, the essay makes reference to the historical antecedents of cultural journals, both online and offline, including Transition , Kwani! , and Chimurenga Chronic , and debates some of the challenges facing online publishing, such as editorial control...
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“That Area of Experience That We Term the New World”: Introducing Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis”
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the most important unpublished nonfiction work by an anglophone Caribbean intellectual and is the major guide to the transition in Wynter's thought between her work mainly on the Caribbean and black America in the 1960s and 1970s and her theory of the human from the early 1980s onward. Not only does...
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A Tree as a Record: On Translating Mahagony by Édouard Glissant
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 123–128.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to a satisfying transition of that work from one language to another. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Glissant translation opacity author/translator relationship Mahagony There has been a lot of argument about what the “task of the translator” might be. Ideas about it seem to change...
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Translation in Caribbean Literature
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 17–34.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., since it captures languages in transit toward other languages and other contexts, creolization embodies the points of contact among what Naoki Sakai calls the “uncountable languages within the literary texts,” unlocking novel ideas of language and literature. The essay offers “translational reading...
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Capitalist Slavery and Its Afterlives: On Commodification, Racialization, and Social Reproduction
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Small Axe (2025) 29 (1 (76)): 147–158.
Published: 01 March 2025
... these questions to critique The Price of Slavery for what it does not say. Rather, I am interested in how further reflection on the inextricable relationship between capitalist accumulation and racial differentiation might complicate what the book does say, especially with respect to “the problem of transition...
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Transformista , Travesti , Transgénero : Performing Sexual Subjectivity in Cuba
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... 22 “I have read your work periodically, as a political and emotional survival drive, mainly in my transition processes, from a Cuban ‘citizen’ to a migrant student on the southeast Mexican border; from woman to queer person to nonbinary transmasculine boy”; Tito Mitjans Alayoń, “Audre Lorde Now...
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Abstraction, Subjectivity, and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Slavery
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Small Axe (2025) 29 (1 (76)): 176–186.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., in Marx’s analysis, in the historical transition to the global preponderance of the capitalist social form. If in my book I largely ignored the many references to slavery in Marx’s Grundrisse , this was not merely because the latter lacks the systematic degree of apodictic demonstration of a social logic...
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Specters in the Forest: Gothic Form and World-Ecology in Edgar Mittelholzer's My Bones and My Flute
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 53–68.
Published: 01 July 2014
... My Bones and My Flute would seem to fit this pattern, its publication in the 1950s coinciding with the transition between the end of the “long” nineteenth-century cycle of accumulation and the beginning of the postwar global economic boom. In the Caribbean, the pressures of this transitional period...
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The Dimensions
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 164–166.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., listened to whips, and
played dead. Occasionally, they could talk to their neighbors. Rarely, they could look outside.
In the absence of light, her ancestors moved.
The annihilation went unnoticed. The transition from horizontal to vertical travel had
opened the third dimension...
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Contributors
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 201–204.
Published: 01 July 2023
... and the Caribbean between 1781 and 1820. Their work is published in Representations, Women and Performance , and Transition , and in Caribbean Literature in Transition: 1800–1920 (2021), the first volume of three in the Cambridge series. K edon W illis is assistant professor of English at CUNY–City...
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