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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 9. A section of Back-a-Wall, in West Kingston, in 1962. The destruction of poor people's homes began here in 1963. © 1962 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd.
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 86–88.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the past into the present. Walls, real and metaphorical, are appearing, as the fear of the foreigner creates a perceived need for barriers, separation, and enclosure. Quickly, too, the ideas of the Éloge and the whole créolité movement seem relevant again: in a dystopian world, utopian ideals...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 153–163.
Published: 01 November 2022
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 37–50.
Published: 01 November 2009
... inescapable enmeshment of blackness and whiteness within the Plantation walls. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 “We are all related”: Edouard
Glissant Meets Octavia Butler
Valérie Loichot
Mita kuye oyasin . . . we are all related.
—Edouard Glissant, Faulkner, Mississippi
So many relatives that I had...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Guillermina De Ferrari Inspired by the enigmatic phrase “Le poème tué” (the murdered poem) that the author saw written on the walls of Port-au-Prince, this essay explores street art in Port-au-Prince as staging a public debate about different ways of approaching a life of precarity and crisis...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... on the wall of cultural difference, however, her initial feelings of discomfort in Haiti transformed her writing into an interrogation of the supposedly innate and homogeneous nature of blackness. The language and praxis of Vodou proved flexible enough to provide her with the vocabulary to articulate a more...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Charisse Burden-Stelly This essay offers a critical engagement with historian Peter James Hudson’s groundbreaking text Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean . It begins with an analysis of Hudson’s detailed account of the entanglements of the internationalization of US banking...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Brenda Gayle Plummer This discussion of Peter James Hudson’s Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean focuses on the way transnational banks are revealed to be players of multiple roles in the development of past and present Caribbean economies. The banks were hardly mere...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 197–207.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Peter James Hudson This essay offers a response to two critical commentaries—from diplomatic historian Brenda Gayle Plummer and political theorist Clarisse Burden-Stelly—on the author’s Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean . While locating both commentaries under...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 167–178.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Figure 9. A section of Back-a-Wall, in West Kingston, in 1962. The destruction of poor people's homes began here in 1963. © 1962 The Gleaner Co. (Media) Ltd. ...
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Published: 01 November 2019
Coral stones (left and second from right) found outside the artist’s studio. Courtesy of the artist. Figure 7 ( second from left ). Trading Post , 2015. Coral cut by enslaved Africans encased in Plexiglas, 36 × 18 × 18 in. Photo credit Tamia Williams. Figure 8 ( far right ). Wall Rubbings
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 184–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Donnette Zacca Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Street Art as I See It:
A Photographic Document
Donnette Zacca
There was a time when what was on the minds of the people echoed through the local
untrained yet extremely talented artists. The neighborhood walls became blank...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 138–142.
Published: 01 July 2015
... above the hand-laid stone wall that secures my house from the street. My wife, Tressa, hates the wall. She says it cut us off and locks us in from the beauty of our avenue. I disagree. We need the wall for privacy and security. Vagrants, men with mud-caked soles and shreds for clothes, frequently...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 85–97.
Published: 01 November 2017
... deed and that we would have done a proud job in making the community better.” Here he asserts that the mere absence of Back-O-Wall would make the community better, although the reason why—the ability to “see from one end to the other”—is interestingly ambiguous. Is Seaga thinking about a scenic vista...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 112–118.
Published: 01 June 2008
... exhibition “Infinite Island: Contemporary Carib-
bean Art,” plays on strategies associated with eighteenth-century European portraiture in
order to open up a space in which the traces of a disordered past can be reconstituted from a
postcolonial feminist perspective. In this large contemporary wall...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 119–130.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Coral stones (left and second from right) found outside the artist’s studio. Courtesy of the artist. Figure 7 ( second from left ). Trading Post , 2015. Coral cut by enslaved Africans encased in Plexiglas, 36 × 18 × 18 in. Photo credit Tamia Williams. Figure 8 ( far right ). Wall Rubbings...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
... pushing me to make the original vision—black wall, black breast … — Sent at 6:08 p.m. on Sunday In 2003, we were both accepted into the National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Seminar on Caribbean Theater and Cultural Performance, organized by Lowell Fiet at the Universidad de Puerto Rico...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 158–163.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of
coughing, nearly toppling over the wall, which banked the river called Constitution.
Piss sprayed his pant leg and sandled foot. It stank of rum and corned beef and Eclipse
biscuits.
Two boys leaning against the river wall—dark, clean-shaven, tattooed, and gold-
chained—laughed at him.
He...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 43–56.
Published: 01 March 2017
... appearances to its recent bulbous and viscous consolidations, the ooze has moved from paper to floor to wall and back, blurring the boundary between two-dimensional surfaces and three-dimensional space. More so than even the space between dimensions, as it has developed Awai's ooze marks a quality, an action...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 149–159.
Published: 01 July 2016
... it. “Josh, the path is down here.” You turn slowly. He smiles at you encouragingly. 2. At the top of the mountain that is not a mountain there is a pagoda. Topher reaches it first, swinging his feet over the low stone wall, tossing his bag into the corner. You approach slowly, rubbing your hand...
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