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Conjure Women and Coolie Women

Gaiutra Bahadur
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 244–253.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985959
Published: 01 July 2018
...Gaiutra Bahadur The author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture , a narrative history about indentured women, discusses researching and narrating the lives of subjects missing, at least in their own words, from the archives. She reflects on the possibilities of the personal and the present...
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Subverting Colonial Portraiture: A Contemporary Memorial to the Women of Egypt Estate

Joscelyn Gardner
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 112–118.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-112
Published: 01 June 2008
...Joscelyn Gardner Subverting Colonial Portraiture: A Contemporary Memorial to the Women of Egypt Estate Joscelyn Gardner Pointing to omissions in the history of colonial representation, Creole Portraits II (2007), commissioned for the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition “Infinite Island...
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Black Women, Politics, Nationalism and Community in London

Tracy Fisher
Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 133–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-133
Published: 01 March 2002
...Tracy Fisher Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Black Women, Politics, Nationalism and Community in London Tracy Fisher articular historical moments often enable us to understand contemporary move- ments and issues. Specifi cally, they are critical in understanding...
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Public Spectacles: Caribbean Women and the Politics of Public Performance

Belinda Edmondson
Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-1
Published: 01 March 2003
...Belinda Edmondson Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Public Spectacles: Caribbean Women and the Politics of Public Performance Belinda Edmondson e race rises as its women rise. ey are the true standard of its elevation. We are trying to produce cultured men without asking...
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Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives on Women in the Discourses of Radical Black Caribbean Men

Wigmoore Francis
Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 116–139.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-116
Published: 01 March 2003
...Wigmoore Francis Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives on Women in the Discourses of Radical Black Caribbean Men Wigmoore Francis INTRODUCTION t work in the deliberations of black radical thinkers in the nineteenth- and early...
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Caribbean Women Writers and the Politics of Style: A Case for Literary Anancyism

Ifeona Fulani
Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 64–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-64
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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Doing Comparative Caribbean (Gender) History: Puerto Rican and Belizean Working-Class Women, 1830s–1930s

Anne S. Macpherson
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642764
Published: 01 March 2014
...Anne S. Macpherson This essay makes a case for comparative Caribbean historiography rooted in research that crosses linguistic, national, and imperial lines, through a discussion of Puerto Rican and Belizean working women from abolition to the 1930s. In illustrating the commensurability...
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Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana

D. Alissa Trotz
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-1
Published: 01 March 2004
...D. Alissa Trotz Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana D. Alissa Trotz INTRODUCTION he immediate aftermath of the 1997 and 2001 elections in Guyana was marked by violence, most of which targeted members...
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Women in the Whirlwind: Withholding Guadeloupe's Archipelagic History

Claire Tancons
Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 143–165.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1894150
Published: 01 November 2012
...Claire Tancons This article takes the 1928 Atlantic hurricane, remembered in Guadeloupe as le grand cyclone 28 , as the starting point for a selective genealogy of Guadeloupean women in times of catastrophe, following Melissa Harris-Perry's study of women and citizenship during Hurricane Katrina...
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Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise

Sam Vásquez
Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665668
Published: 01 July 2012
...Sam Vásquez Increased criticism and representations of violence in contemporary Jamaica often account for these tensions by citing poverty or gang and political rivalries in the post-independence era. However, both Marlon James's The Book of Night Women (2009) and Margaret Cezair-Thompson's...
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Women in the Grenada Revolution, 1979-1983

Nicole Phillip
Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 39–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-11-1-39
Published: 01 February 2007
...Nicole Phillip Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Women in the Grenada Revolution, 1979–1983 Nicole Phillip I The year 1951 is synonymous in Grenada with the words strike, riot, and revolution. It saw the rise of Eric Matthew Gairy who led the first massive strike action...
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Black Women and Their Discontents in the French Context

Shanna Jean-Baptiste
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461929
Published: 01 March 2023
...Shanna Jean-Baptiste This essay explores the decolonial future imagined by the Black women who make up Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020). A much-needed project of historical redress, Joseph-Gabriel’s study...
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Unfinished Business: In Search of Other Women, Other Worlds

Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 162–173.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461958
Published: 01 March 2023
...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel This response essay engages the three book discussion essays by Shanna Jean-Baptiste, Grace Sanders Johnson, and Tobias Warner on the author’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020). Building on the speculative...
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Bodies of Color: Images of Women in the Works of Firelei Báez and Rachelle Mozman

Rocío Aranda-Alvarado
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844078
Published: 01 March 2017
... physical aspects. Báez is interested in anthropology, science fiction, black female subjectivity, and the role of women's work; her art explores the humor and fantasy involved in the consideration and presentation of the self. Her inspiration is focused on local urban communities with origins in Africa...
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Writing the Feminine: The Representation of Women in Contemporary Dominican Visual Art

Elena Valdez
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844295
Published: 01 March 2017
... and media used in their art, the artists have systematically challenged expectations of the role of women in the arts and in society as a whole. Their artwork explores the devastating impact on women of restricted gender roles and new forms of slavery imposed by patriarchal society, such as forced...
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Bodies of Horror in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women and Clovis Brown's Cartoons

Curdella Forbes
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4271944
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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Counting Women's Caring Work: An Interview with Andaiye

David Scott
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 123–217.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-123
Published: 01 March 2004
...David Scott Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Counting Women’s Caring Work: An Interview with Andaiye David Scott Upon an evening like this, mother, when one year is making way for another, in a ceremony attended by a show of silver stars, mothers see the moon, milk-fed...
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Communal Style: Indo-Caribbean Women's Jewelry

Joy Mahabir
Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 112–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4156822
Published: 01 July 2017
... with Indo-Caribbean jewelry. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 indentureship Vannetta Seecharran Inside the glass case at Rattan Jewellers, a store in south Trinidad, is an original silver churia , a wrist-to-elbow silver cuff worn by Indo-Caribbean women laborers during indentureship. It is extremely...
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A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture

Melanie White
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10899302
Published: 01 November 2023
...Melanie White This essay explores the visual cultural production of three twentieth-century Black Caribbean Central American women painters: June Beer and Judith Kain, both from the Miskitu Coast, and Iris Abrahams, from San Andrés and Providencia. Specifically, it contextualizes these artists...
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Caribbean Tabula Rasa : Textual Touristing as Carnival in Contemporary Caribbean Women's Writing

Angeletta KM Gourdine
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 80–96.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10-2-80
Published: 01 June 2006
...Angeletta KM Gourdine Small Axe Incorporated 2006 small axe 20 June 2006 p 80 96 ISSN 0799-0537 Caribbean Tabula Rasa: Textual Touristing as Carnival in Contemporary Caribbean Women s Writing Angeletta KM Gourdine Oh, by now you are tired . . . you want to reach your destination your...
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