back issues
Small Axe #35 (April 2011)
Contents
Preface: Autobiographies of Ourselves
David Scott
belladonna
Kamau Brathwaite
Out and Bad: Towards a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall
Nadia Ellis
“A Thorn in the Side of Great Britain”:
Christian Hogsbjerg
Heading South: Love/Sex, Necropolitics and Decolonial Romance
Shirley Tate
Bustling Across the Canada-US border:
Gender and the Remapping of the Caribbean
D. Alissa Trotz
Growing Up Black
Dennis Morris
The Visual Life of Catastrophic History
Christianity’s Catastrophic Gift
Marvin Bartley
Schematics of Memory
Cheryl Finley
Literary Competition Winners 2010
Poetry
Small Graces
Lauren Alleyne
Thalatta! Tierra!
Ishion Hutchinson
Short Fiction
Battie Boy
Stephen Narain
Dieu est Mon Pilote à Tanqueray
Andrea Shaw
Book Discussion: Faith Smith, Creole Recitations:
John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
The Audacity of Faith: Creole Recitations Explained
Leah Rosenberg
“Only His Hat Is Left”: John Jacob Thomas, Eric Roach, and the Nationalist’s Dilemma
Rhonda Cobham
The Nineteenth Century Roots of Postcolonial Caribbean Discourse:
Ifeoma Nwankwo
“Only His Hat is Left”? Re-Situating Not-Yet Narratives
Faith Smith
Small Axe #34 (December 2010)
Contents
Preface: Remnants, Exigencies … Islands
David Scott
Essays
Hew Locke’s Post-Colonial Baroque
Kobena Mercer
The Problem of the Hero(ine) in Caribbean History
Richard Drayton
Cajou’s “Color Complex”: Narrative Technique,
Reader Response, and the Reception of Postcolonial Texts
Cheryl Duffus
Yam, Roots and Rot: Allegories of the Provision Grounds
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
The Hearts of Men? Gender in the Late C. L. R. James
Aaron Kamugisha
Jamaican Nationalism, Queer Intimacies, and Disjunctures of the Chinese Diaspora:
Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda
Jason Frydman
Césaire Reads Louverture
John Patrick Walsh
Fiction
The Knower
Sheryl Byfield
Visual Projects
On the Visual Life of Catastrophic History
A Small Axe Project Statement
Lovers Rock
John Goto
Book Discussion:
Diana Paton, No Bond But the Law:
Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870
‘A Luxurious Resting Place for the Idle and Vicious’?
The Rise and Fall of Penal Reform in Jamaica in the 1840s
Jonathan Dalby
Freedom’s Prisons: Incarceration, Emancipation, and Modernity in No Bond But the Law
Melanie Newton
Revisiting No Bond But the Law
Diana Paton
Small Axe #33 (November 2010)
Contents
Preface: The Fellowship of Présence Africaine
David Scott
The Blue Savannahs of Memory
Elizabeth Duchanaud
Discourse on Contemporary European and Caribbean Writing in French:
Mary Gallagher
Creole Japan, Or the Hazards of Creolization
Michael Ferrier
Ciné Woulé, Ciné en Progrès: An Investigation of the Francophone
Caribbean Film Circuit
Meredith N. Robinson
Littérature-monde
Haiti’s Worldly Literature
Martin Munro
Maryse Condé: Practitioner of Littérature-Monde
Bonnie Thomas
World Literature in French: A Caribbean Design?
Keithley Woolward
The Ambivalent Transnationalism of a Literature/World in French
Kaiama Glover
Edouard Glissant, Littérature-Monde, and Tout-Monde
Eric Prieto
Late Glissant: History, “World-Literature,” and the Persistence of the Political
Charles Forsdick
Visual Projects
Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti
Leah Gordon
12.01.10
Pascale Monnin
The Cinderella Complex
Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson
Book Discussion:
Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
Antinomies of Slavery, Enlightenment, and Universal History
David Scott
History and Catastrophe
Sibylle Fischer
The Gift of the Past
Susan Buck-Morss
Small Axe #32 (April 2010)
Preface
David Scott
Essays
Dreams, Delirium, and Decolonization in Derek Walcott’s
Dream on Monkey Mountain
Kelly Baker Josephs
Circuits of Political Prophecy: Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Tosh,
and the Black Radical Imaginary
Carter Mathes
Through the Eyes of Hollywood: Reading
Representations of Jamaicans in American Cinema
Tanya Batson-Savage
The Public Sphere and Jamaican Anticolonial Politics:
Public Opinion, Focus, and the Place of Literary Publication
Raphael Dalleo
Riffing on Omeros
Jane Bryce
Accessory/Accessories: Or, What’s in Your Closet
Small Axe Literary Competition
Fiction
The Colour of Green Lizards
Ashley Rousseau
Dancing With a Ball of Light
Alake Pilgrim
Poetry
Point of View
2008 News Report on Fidel
Sold Again
Dance Girl Dance
The Cry Of The Snapper
Sunday Verandah Story
Gardener’s Justice
Bird Shooting Season
Kumina Queen
Monica Minott
To the Man Who Tends My Grandmother’s Grave
The Sea
Again
At Rock Bottom
Let This Be Your Praise
Montego Bay
Standing Outside the Circle
Dining at Customs
Beyond the AIDS Hospice
Tanya Shirley
Art/Work
Hybrid Navigator
Satch Hoyt
The Dimming
Nikolai Noel
Book Discussion: Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River:
A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
Stitch by Stitch: Sewing up Questions of Cultural Identity
in Lorna Goodison’s From Harvey River
Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Last Stitch: A Praise Song for My Mother Who Mothered Me
Donette Francis
Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis
and Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Lorna Goodison
Small Axe #31 (March 2010)
Contents
Preface
David Scott
Redefining Performance in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival
Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Hauntings from the Past in Vincent Brown’s The Reaper’s Garden
Small Axe #30 (November 2009)
Contents
Preface: Islands of Créolité?
Relating the Francophone Caribbean
Globalization and Political Action in the Work of Édouard Glissant
From Fanon to Glissant: A Martinican Genealogy
Carine Mardorossian
Édouard Glissant and the Art of Memory
Bonnie Thomas
“We Are All Related”: Édouard Glissant Meets Octavia Butler
Valérie Loichot
Haïti en scène! Renaissance de la trilogie romanesque
Amour colère et folie sur la scène théâtrale international
Stéphanie Bérard
Disarming the Warrior of the Imaginary:
Patrick Chamoiseau and the Limits of the Aesthetics of Resistance
Stella Amélie Vincenot
On Slavery, Césaire and Relating to the World:
An Interview with Patrick Chamoiseau
Maeve McCusker
Visual Memory
Place-Presence
Remembering to Invent One’s Future
An Artist Smuggler of Image-Matter
Memory and the Contemporary Visual Arts
of the Francophone Caribbean
Dominique Brebion
Totem and Fwomajé:
The Beginning and the Affirmation of an Artistic Language in Martinique
Book discussion: Alex Dupuy: The Prophet and Power:
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti;
and Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide,
and the Politics of Containment
Hallward, or the Hidden Face of Racism
Lyonel Trouillot
Aristide and the Politics of Democratization
Nick Nesbitt
Violence and Methodology:
Reading Aristide and Lavalas after 2004
Valerie Kaussen
Alex Dupuy
Lyonel Trouillot, or the Fictions of Formal Democracy
Peter Hallward
Small Axe #29 (April 2009)
Contents
Preface: Diasporas of the Imagination
David Scott
Blackness Unbound: Interrogating Transnational Blackness
Guest-edited by Glyne A. Griffith
Introduction: Blackness Unbound:
Interrogating Transnational Blackness
Glyne A. Griffith
One and Divisible: Meditations on Global Blackness
What Is This “Black” In Black Diaspora?
White But Not Quite:
Tones And Overtones Of Whiteness In Brazil
The Asian Other In The Caribbean
Whiteness As War By Other Means:
Racial Complexity in an
Where To Find Me
“The Unhomely Moment”:
Frieda Cassin’s Nineteenth Century Antiguan Novel
and The Construction Of The White Creole
Deconstructing Jamaican Whiteness:
Two Diasporic Voices
Kim Robinson-Walcott
What Do Jamaicans Mean By “Ole Negar”?
Visual Memory
The Photograph as a Receptacle of Memory
A Day Off From Dementia
Andrea Chung
The Act of Painting
Sonia Boyce and Crop Over
Allison Thompson
What Times Are These?
Visual Art and Social Crisis in Postcolonial Jamaica
Veerle Poupeye
Book Discussion: Richard Price, Travels with Tooy:
History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
African American memory at the Crossroads:
Catching the Wind
Travels With Anthropology
Further Travels
Small Axe #28 (March 2009)
Contents
Preface: The Paradox of Beginnings
David Scott
Obeah Acts:
Producing and Policing the Boundaries of Religion in the Caribbean
Reconstructing Womanhood: A Future Beyond Empire
A Future Beyond Empire: An Introduction
Saidiya Hartman and Tina Campt
Lost (and Found?) in Translation
Hazel V. Carby
Oceans Apart
Ingrid Pollard
Paranoid Empire and Imperial Déjà Vu:
Specters from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib
Anne McClintock
Reconstructing Manhood; Or the Drag of Black Masculinity
The Stranger’s Work
Autobiography Out of Empire
Lisa Lowe
Visual Memory in the Caribbean
“But Bogle was a Bold Man”: Vision, History and Power for a New Jamaica
Petrina Dacres
The West Indian Front Room
Michael McMillan
Amendments: Digital Griots as Traces of Resistance
David Boxer
Residues of Memory
Terry Boddie
Book Discussion:
Carole Boyce Davies, Left of Karl Marx:
The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History
The Perils of Sailing the Black Atlantic, Deportation with Prejudice
Sisters Outside: Tracing the Caribbean/Black Radical Tradition
Carole Boyce Davies
Small Axe #27 (October 2008)
Contents
Haiti Now!
Guest-edited by Charles Forsdick,
Martin Munro, and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Preface: Paths Are Made By Walking
David Scott
Interpreting 2004: Politics, Memory, Scholarship
Charles Forsdick
Turning the Tide:
The Problem of Popular Insurgency
in Haitian Revolutionary Historiography
Fictions of Displacement:
Locating Modern Haitian Narratives
Interdependence and Intertextuality
in Lyonel Trouillot’s Bicentenaire
Martin Munro
Untitled
Mario Benjamin
Haitian Revolutions in Literature:
The Case of Linguistic and
The Landscape of Return in Edwidge Danticat’s
The Dew Breaker
Elizabeth Walcott–Hackshaw
Joshua Tree
Maksaens Denis
Cinema in Haiti
Arnold Antonin
Contemporary Art as Cultural Product
in the Context of Haiti
Ba’m Dlo (travel writing extract)
Madison Smartt Bell
In Remembrance of Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire: The Poet’s Passion
Homage to Aimé Césaire
F. Abiola Irele
Forty Years with Césaire, 1968-2008
Book Discussion: Continental Shifts:
The Art of Edouard Duval Carrié
On Reading Continental Driftsand
Considering the Works of
LeGrace Benson
Navigating Between the Continents:
Further Thoughts on Edouard DuvalCarrié’s Work
Edward Sullivan
Small Axe #26 (June 2008)
Contents
Introduction:
On the Archaeologies of Black Memory
Venus in Two Acts
King Menelik’s Nephew:
Prince Thomas Mackarooroo,
aka Prince Ludwig Menelek of Abyssinia
Black Memory versus State Memory:
Notes toward a Method
Defending the Dead, Confronting the Archive:
A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip
Zong! Poems
Subverting Colonial Portraiture:
A Contemporary Memorial to the Women of Egypt Estate
Identities Withheld by Choice
Repairwork
Blue Curry
Are They Mad? Nation and Narration in Tous les hommes sont fous
Book Discussion:
by Silvio Torres-Saillant
Diasporic Disciplining of Caliban? Haiti,
the Dominican Republic, and Intra-Caribbean Politics
Jana Evans Braziel
On the Impossibility of All Possibility in Caribbean Theory
Writing Caribbean Intellectual History
Conversation Manqué: On Judging Someone Else’s Book
Small Axe #25 (February 2008)
Contents
After Empire:
Training Lawyers as a Postcolonial Enterprise
Mindie Lazarus-Black
The Hills of Hebron:
Sylvia Wynter’s Disruption of the Narrative of the Nation
Shirley Toland-Dix
Constructing a Nation:
Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place
Corinna McLeod
Seeing Darkly
Michael West
Diary of Souls (Excerpt from a novel)
Ian Gregory Strachan
Super Nature
Simone Leigh
Stills From a Fictional Film
Oneika Russell
Book Discussion: An Eye for the Tropics:
Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque
by Krista A. Thompson
Solving Caribbean Mysteries:
Art, Embodiment, and an Eye for the Tropics
Leon Wainwright
Caribbean Subjectivity and the Colonial Archive
Beth Fowkes Tobin
The Picturesque, Miss Nottage and the Caribbean Sublime
Richard Powell
“Call the Police. Call the Army. Call God.
And Let’s Have One Helluva Big Story”:
On Writing Postcolonial Caribbean Histories
Krista A. Thompson
International Space and the Discourse of Individualism in Waiting in Vain and Mr Potter
Curdella Forbes
Small Axe #24 (October 2007)
Contents
From New World to Abeng:
George Beckford and the Horn of Black Power
in
Robert A. Hill
Infrastructures of the Imagined Island:
Re-spatializing the Virtual
Mimi Sheller
The Fact of Blackness?:
The Problem of the Bleached Body in Contemporary
Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Gendered Legacies of Romantic Nationalism in the Works of Michelle Cliff
Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Intuitive Art as a Canon
Veerle Poupeye
Pares & Nones: Invisible Equality
Alanna Lockward
Excerpt fromThe Loneliness of Angels
Myriam J.A. Chancy
Email from “Here”
Nicole Awai
Book Discussion:
M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing:
Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
“A Loving Freedom”: A
Tracy Robinson
Crosses/Crossroads/Crossings
Faith Smith
Rethinking Interdisciplinarity:
Meditations on the Sacred Possibilities of an Erotic Feminist Pedagogy
Michelle Rowley
Danger and Desire:
Crossings are Never Undertaken All at Once or Once and for All
M. Jacqui Alexander
Small Axe #23 (June 2007)
Contents
Preface: Soul Captives are Free
David Scott
Haiti: Liminality and Fantasies of Bare Life
Sibylle Fischer
“How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea”:
The Writings of Miss Amy Beckford Bailey as Moral Education
in the Era of Jamaican Nation-Building
Veronica Marie Gregg
Life in the North Caribbean
Edouard Duval Carrié
“Whether Beast or Human”:
The Cultural Legacies of Dread, Locks and Dystopia
Kevin Frank
Available in All Leading Stores
Christopher Cozier
From Mythologies to Realities:
The Iconography of Ras Daniel Heartman
Ama
Woi
Garfield Ellis
Upgrade
Dave Williams
Speak Up
Richard Rawlins
“No Abstract Art Here”:
The Problem of the Visual in Contemporary Anglo Caribbean Art
Krista Thompson
The Black Eye Project
Nikolai Noel
“No Grave Cannot Hold my Body Down”: Rituals of Death and Burial in Postcolonial Jamaica
Annie Paul
Book Discussion:
Madison Smartt Bell, All Soul’s Rising, Master of the Crossroads,
The Stone that the Builder Refused
Haitian Novels and Novels of Haiti: History,
Haitian Writing, and Madison Smartt Bell’s Trilogy
Martin Munro
Capturing Louverture
Laurent Dubois
Haitian Gothic and History:
Madison Smartt Bell’s Trilogy on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo
Madison Smartt Bell’s Toussaint at the Crossroads:
The Haitian revolutionary between history and fiction
Charles Forsdick
Sa Nou Pa We Yo (What We Don’t See) :
A Reply to Four Readers
Madison Smartt Bell
Small Axe #22 (February 2007)
Contents
On the Subject of Grenada
Preface: The Silence People Keeping
David Scott
Tout Moun ka Pléwé
Merle Collins
William Galwey Donovan, T. Albert Marryshow, and the Struggle for Political Change in Grenada, 1883-1925
Edward Cox
Women in the Grenada Revolution, 1979-1983
Nicole Philip
Grenada, Naipaul, and Ground Provision
David Omowalé Franklyn
Art/Work
Justice Series
Susan Mains
Decolonizing the Mind: Recent Grenadian Literature
Susan Meltzer
Ressentiment and the Gairy Social Revolution
Oliver Benoit
City on the Hill
Michael DeGale
Poems
Christene Clarkson
Art/Work
Canute Caliste: The Assassination of Maurice Bishop
Meg Conlon
Stories
Sunday Morning
Esther O’Neale
Kele and the Elevator Ride
Shirley Brathwaite
Review Article: Grenada in Caribbean Historiography
Ron Sookram
Small Axe #21 (October 2006)
Contents
Come we go burn down Babylon:
A Report on the Cathedral Murders and
the Force of Rastafari in the Eastern Caribbean
Glenn A. Elmer Griffin
Engendering History A Poetics of the ‘Kala Pani’ in Ramabai Espinet’s
The Swinging Bridge
Brinda Mehta
“What if he did not have a sister?”
Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother as Remittance Text
Kezia Page
Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Dub Poetry and
the Political Aesthetics of Carnival in Britain
Ashley Dawson
Colonization/Creolization/Globalization:
The Art and Ruses of Bricolage
Wendy Knepper
Race, Creole and National Identities in Rhys’s
Wide Sargasso Sea and Phillips’s Cambridge
Vivian Nun Halloran
On a Knife Edge:
Sistren Theatre Collective, Grassroots Theatre, and Globalization
Sharon L. Green
Passa Passa Wednesdays:
Dancehall as Renewal in Kingston’s Inner City
Donna Hope
Art/Work
The Pink Elephant in the Room
Dionne Benjamin-Smith
Poem
3 poems
Christian Campbell
Story
Waiting for Mel
Jennifer Rahim
Book Discussion:
CAROLYN COOPER’S
SOUND CLASH: JAMAICAN DANCEHALL CULTURE AT LARGE
Inside Out: Dancehall & the “Re-Cooperation” of Meaning
Mike Alleyne
Clashing Interpretations in Jamaican Dancehall Culture
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Slackness Personified, Historicized, Delegitimized
Sonjah Stanley Niaah
Un-Theory
Idara Hippolyte
At the Crossroads
— Looking for Meaning in Jamaican Dancehall Culture: A Reply
Carolyn Cooper
Small Axe #20 (June 2006)
Contents
The Operations of the Closet and the Discourse of
Unspeakable Contents in Black Fauns and My Brother
Jennifer Rahim
Martin Carter and George Lamming: Authority and
the Occasion for Speaking in the Caribbean Literary Field
Raphael Dalleo
“Join, Interchangeable Phantoms”:
From Metaphor to Metonymy in Walcott’s Omeros
Nicole Matos
Two Healing Narratives: Suffering,
Reintegration and the Struggle of Language
Maria Cristina Fumagalli and Peter L. Patrick
Caribbean Tabula Rasa:
Textual Touristing as Carnival in Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Writing
Angeletta Gourdine
“To Be Liberated from the Obscurity of Themselves”:
An Interview with Rex Nettleford
David Scott
Art/Work
Kutiya Geometries
Steve Ouditt
Poem
From “The Museum of Love”,
Mark McWatt
Book Discussion:
MICHELLE STEPHENS’ BLACK EMPIRE:
THE MASCULINE GLOBAL IMAGINARY OF
CARIBBEAN INTELLECTUALS IN THE UNITED STATES, 1914-1962
African-American Manhood in the Making of Caribbean Nationalism
Belinda Edmondson
At Sea: The Caribbean in Black Empire
Harvey Neptune
Reply
Michelle Stephens
Small Axe #19 (February 2006)
Contents
Crossing Borders of Language and Culture
Guest edited by Charles V. Carnegie and Samuel Martinez
Introduction
Charles V. Carnegie
The Elusive Organization of ‘Identity’:
Race, Religion, and Empire among Caribbean Migrants in Cuba
Jorge L. Giovannetti
Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the ‘Routes’ to
Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean
Shona N. Jackson
Imported Topics, Foreign Vocabularies:
Dread Talk, the Cuban Connection
Velma Pollard and Samuel Furé Davis
Dislocated Geographies:
A Story of Border Crossings
Hilda Lloréns
Da Inna Who Fa Mout’ Mi Tongue/In Whose Mouth is My Tongue:
Writing as a Belizean American
Ingrid M. Reneau
Art/Work:
From Amor Eterno to Sabana de la Mar
Scherezade Garcia-V.
The Anthropology of Ourselves: An Interview with Sidney W. Mintz
Charles V. Carnegie
Blackness and Meaning in Studying Hispaniola
Silvio Torres-Saillant
Book Discussion:
SHALINI PURI’S THE CARIBBEAN POSTCOLONIAL:
SOCIAL EQUALITY, POST-NATIONALISM, AND CULTURAL HYBRIDITY
Transnationalism, Diaspora, and The Caribbean Postcolonial
Timothy Chin
‘The Contemporaneous Local’ in Time:
Problems of History in Shalini Puri’s The Caribbean Postcolonial
Eleni Coundouriotis
Localizing Hybridity:
Shalini Puri’s The Caribbean Postcolonial
Marc Brudzinski
After the Fact: A Response to Critics
Shalini Puri
Small Axe #18 (September 2005)
Contents
Profondes et nombreuses: Haiti, History, Culture, 1804-2004
Guest edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Foreword: David Scott
Introduction: Re-interpreting the Haitian Revolution
Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
The Founding Myths of the Haitian Nation
Maximilien Laroche
The Theatre of the Haitian Revolution/ the Haitian
Revolution as Theatre
J. Michael Dash
Dessalines in Historic Drama and Haitian Contemporary Reality
Marie-Agnès Sourieau
My Love is like a Rose:
Terror, Territoire and the Poetics of Marie Chauvet
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Art/Work:
Vladimir Cybil
Re-Membering Défilée:
Dedée Bazile as Revolutionary lieu de mémoire
in Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!
Jana Evans Braziel
Haitian and Dominican E/migration and
the (Re)construction of National Identity in
the Poetry of the Third Generation
Nicole Roberts
Blending with Motives and Colours:
Haitian History Interpreted by Édouard Duval Carrié
Carl Hermann Middelanis
The Sign of the Loa
Patricia Mohammed
Art/Work:
Maxence Denis
The Haitian Revolution, Memory,
and Haiti’s Humanist Thinkers:
The Examples of Anténor Firmin and Jean Price-Mars
Gérarde Magloire-Danton
Master of the New:
Tradition and Intertextuality in Dany Laferrière’s Pays sans chapeau
Martin Munro
WRITER’S ROUNDTABLE:
Dany Laferrière, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Edwidge Danticat, Evelyne Trouillot
J. Michael Dash, moderator
Afterword: Dany Laferrière
Small Axe #17 (March 2005)
Contents
Stuart Hall’s Ethics
David Scott
Resistance, Atlantic Orders and
the Migrant Male in the Writings of Caryl Phillips
Elena Machado Sáez
Audible Entanglements:
Nation and Diasporas in Trinidad’s Calypso Music Scene
Jocelyne Guilbault
Caribbean Women Writers and the Politics of Style:
A Case for Literary Anancyism
Ifeona Fulani
Art/Work:
Transformation Set
Charles Campbell
Stories:
Who’s your Daddy?
Geoffrey Philp
Gran’s Teeth: A True Tale of Migratory Hell
Peter Dean Rickards
Book Discussion:
BRENT HAYES EDWARDS’ THE PRACTICE OF DIASPORA:
LITERATURE, TRANSLATION AND
THE RISE OF BLACK INTERNATIONALISM
Disarticulating Black Internationalisms:
West Indian Radicals and The Practice of Diaspora,
Michelle Stephens
Translation, Black Internationalism, Politics
Michael Hanchard
Diaspora, Difference, and Black Internationalisms
Nadi Edwards
Erasures and the Practice of Diaspora Feminism
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Pebbles of Consonance: A Reply to Critics
Brent Hayes Edwards
Small Axe #16 (September 2004)
Contents
Caribbean Locales and Global Artworlds
Guest edited by Annie Paul and Krista Thompson
Introduction
Annie Paul and Krista Thompson
Before 1868: Victor Patricio de Landaluze’s
Earliest Afro-Cuban Representations in Context
Evelyn Carmen Ramos
“Black Skin, Blue Eyes”:
Visualizing Blackness in Jamaican Art (1922-1944)
Krista Thompson
Resonance: the Essence of the Playing Field
Rocio Aranda
Art/Work:
Khary Darby
Facing the Nation:
Art History and Art Criticism in the Jamaican Context
Andrea N. Douglas
Haciendo Patria:
The Puerto Rican Flag in the Art of Juan Sánchez
Michelle Joan Wilkinson
Visual Narratives of Cultural Memory and Diasporic Identities:
Two Contemporary Haitian American Artists
Jerry Philogene
From Jamaica to the Diaspora
Catherine Amidon
Art/Work:
John Beadle
Discussion Forum:
“Redemption Song”: Laura Facey Cooper’s Emancipation Monument
An Interview with Laura Facey Cooper, Petrina Dacres
Monument and Meaning, Petrina Dacres
Enslaved in Stereotype: Race and Representation in Post-independence Jamaica, Carolyn Cooper
Whose Monument?, Narda Graham
Monumentally Caribbean: Borders, Bodies, and Redemptive City Spaces, Susan Mains
Art/Work:
Peter Dean Rickards
Reviews:
The Ellisonian Injunction: Discourse on a Lower Frequency
(Review of Gerard Aching, Masking and Power)
Grant Farred
Moving History in the Aftermath
(Review of Mimi Sheller, Consuming the Caribbean)
Harvey Neptune
Of Créolité and Creolization (Review of Okwui Enwezor et al [eds.],
Créolité and Creolization: Documenta 11_Platform3)
Nadi Edwards
Small Axe #15 (March 2004)
Contents
Guyana: The Present against the Past
Preface
David Scott
Between Despair and Hope:
Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana
Alissa Trotz
The PPP on Trial
Cary Fraser
“If freedom writes no happier alphabet”:
Martin Carter and Poetic Silence
Gemma Robinson
Resisting Orthodoxy:
Notes on the Origins and Ideology of the Working Peoples Alliance
Nigel Westmaas
The Importance of Being Cultural:
Nationalist Thought and Jagan’s Colonial World
Nalini Persram
Creoleness and Nationalism in Guyanese
Anti-Colonialism and Post-Colonial Formation,
Percy Hintzen
Counting Women’s Caring Work: An Interview with Andaiye
David Scott
Stories
Memories, Jan Lowe Shinebourne April
Ruel Johnson
Art/Work:
The House of Windsor, Hew Locke
Imaging Historical Traces: A Virtual Exiles Project
Roshini Kempadoo
Reviews:
Coming to Terms, Stewart Brown
The Tragedy of the Zong
Geoffrey Philp
Small Axe #14 (September 2003)
Contents
Editorial Comment
David Scott
Political Rationalities of the Jamaican Modern
David Scott
Beyond Resistance: Notes Toward a New Caribbean Cultural Studies
Shalini Puri
C.L.R. James and George Lamming: The Measure of Historical Time
Bill Schwarz
Shake Keane's "Nonsense": An Alternative Approach to Caribbean Folk Culture
Philip Nanton
Claiming an Identity we Thought they Despised:
Contemporary White West Indian Writers and their Negotiations with Race
Kim Robinson-Walcott
Story
Here
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Art/Work
Terrastories (notes)
Christopher Cozier
Book Discussion:
Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects:
Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867
Subject to Question: Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects
Madhavi Kale
Aiding Imperialism: White Baptists in Nineteenth Century Jamaica
Patrick Bryan
Fishers of Men: Catherine Hall's Narrative and the Framing of History
Rhonda Cobham
How the English became English: Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects
Faith Smith
Narratives of Empire: Reply to Critics
Catherine Hall
Small Axe #13 (March 2003)
Contents
Public Spectacles:
Caribbean Women and the Politics of Public Performance
Belinda Edmondson
Becoming the People's Poet: Claude McKay's Jamaican Years, 1889-1912
Winston James
The Harder They Come: Rougher Version
Loretta Collins
Predation Politics and the Political Impasse in Jamaica
Obika Gray
Is Not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk:
Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace
Patricia J. Saunders
Nineteenth- and Early-Twenty-Century Perspectives on Women
in the Discourse of Radical Black Caribbean Men
Wigmoore Francis
Stories:
Elephant Dreams
Ifeona Fulani
Reckoning
Robert Edison Sandiford
Poetry:
Elemental
John Robert Lee
Pointe des Chateaux, Guadeloupe
Cyríl Dabydeen
The Doctor
Cyríl Dabydeen
Pearl and Me
Cyríl Dabydeen
Reviews:
Writing the Autobiography of My Father, Curdella Forbes
Localizing the Aesthetic Search: Walcott's Caribbean Poetics
in Abandoning Dead Metaphors, Harold McDermott
Small Axe #12 (September 2002)
Contents
"Roots beyond Roots": Heteroglossia and
Feminist Creolization in Myal and Crossing the Mangrove
Heather Smith
Modern Blackness: "What We Are and What We Hope to Be"
Deborah A. Thomas
Remttance; Or, Diasporic Economies of Yearning
Jenny Burman
The Sovereignty of the Imagination:
An Interview with George Lamming
David Scott
Reviews:
Thoughts on Writing from Exile:
Review of The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson, Rachel Manley
Exposing Caribbean Tourism: Review of Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean edited by Kamala Kempadoo, Paula Aymer
Small Axe #11 (March 2002)
Contents
Preface: The Frame of Nation
Anthony Bogues
Politics, Nation and Postcolony: Caribbean Inflections
Anthony Bogues
Taking Possession: Symbols of Empire and Nationhood
Patricia Mohammed
George Lamming's Literary Nationalism:
|Language between The Tempest and the Tonelle
Nadi Edwards
Songster
Jennifer Rahim
Dubbing the Nation
Philip Maysles
Derek Walcott: Imagination, Nation and the Poetics of Memory
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Black Women, Politics, Nationalism and Community in London
Tracy Fisher
Book Discussion:
Paget Henry's Caliban's Reason Caliban's Cry:
Reflections on the Meaning of Philosophy in Caliban's Reason
Patrick Goodin
Reasoning with Caliban's Reason
Brian Meeks
Caliban's Reason and the Folk: A Comment, Maureen
Warner-Lewis
Caliban's Reason and the Future of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Claudette Anderson
Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro-Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics
Paget Henry
Small Axe #10 (September 2001)
Contents
Deconstructing Nationalisms: Henry Swanzy,
Caribbean Voices and the Development of West Indian Literature
Glyne Griffith
Guerrillas, Games and Governmentality
Nalini Persram
"You Know You're West Indian If...":
Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain
Faith Smith
Introduction to Walter Rodney
David Austin
African History in the Service of Black Liberation
Walter Rodney
The Weight of the Night
Yanick Lahens
The Dialect of Defeat: An Interview with Rupert Lewis
David Scott
Reviews:
Seasons of Exile and Rebirth
Meredith Gadsby
Dancehall Ethnography in Jamaica
Avram Bornstein
Small Axe #9 (March 2001)
Contents
The Popular
Guest-edited by Nadi Edwards
Preface: Talking about Culture:
Re-Thinking the Popular
Nadi Edwards
The Calypsonian as Artist: Freedom and Responsibility
Gordon Rohlehr
Technology Constructing Culture: Tracking Soca's First "Post-"
Curwen Best
Shakespeare, Other Shakespeares and West Indian Popular Culture:
A Reading of the Erotics of Errantry and Rebellion in Troilus and Cressida
Curdella Forbes
Raggamuffin Cultural Studies:
X-Press Novels' Yardies and Cop Killers Put Britain on Trial
Loretta Collins
Aunt(y) Jemima in Spiritual Baptist Experience in Toronto:
Spiritual Mother or Servile Woman?
Carol B. Duncan
Caribbean Pop Culture in Canada;
Or, the Impossibility of Belonging to the Nation
Rinaldo Walcott
"Notting Eh Strange": Black Stalin Speaks!
Winthrop R. Holder
Music is Made out of Smoke
Tanya Shirley
Art/Work:
Don Drummond Series
Clinton Hutton
Reviews:
Uncovered Roots: Review of Stir It Up:
Reggae Album Cover Art by Chris Morrow
Mike Alleyne
No More Londoners:
Review of White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Jan Lowe
Small Axe #8 (September 2000)
Contents
Preface
David Scott
Fictions of Gender, Fictions of Race:
Retelling Morant Bay in Jamaican Literature
Rhonda Cobham
William Knibb and the Constitution of the New Black Subject
Catherine Hall
Esplanade Poem
Kamau Brathwaite
The C.L.R. James Lectures
Preface
Robert A. Hill
Lectures on The Black Jacobins, C.L.R. James
Afterward
Anthony Bogues
The Re-Enchantment of Humanism:
An Interview with Sylvia Wynter
David Scott
Book Discussion:
B. W. Higman's Writing West Indian Histories
Bridget Bereton
The Challenge of Rewriting West Indian Histories
O. Nigel Bolland
On Reading Writing: A View of B.W. Higman's Writing West Indian Histories
Michele A. Johnson
History-Writing in the English-Speaking Caribbean
B.W. Higman
Small Axe #7 (March 2000)
Contents
Genders and Sexuality
Guest-edited by Faith Smith
Preface
Faith Smith
Fictions of Citizenship, Bodies without Sex:
The Production and Effacement of Gender in Law
Tracy Robinson
AIDS and the Question of Memory:
Patricia Powell's A Small Gathering of Bones
Aparjita Sagar
Transforming the Skin-Shedding Soucouyant:
Using Folklore to Reclaim Female Agency in Caribbean Literature
Giselle Anatol
The "Unruly Woman" in Nineteenth Century Trinidad Carnival
Pamela Franco
Jahaji Bhai: Notes on the Masculine Subject and
Homoerotic Subtext of Indo-Caribbean Identity
Sean Lokaisingh-Meighoo
Body Talk: Notes on Women and Spectacle
in Contemporary Trinidad Carnival
Natasha Barnes
Homophobia and Gay Rights Activism in Jamaica
"Lawson Williams"
Story:
Ecce Homo
Michelle Cliff
Rain
Ramabai Espinet
Statement Toward a Nobility of the Imagination:
Jamaica's Shame
Thomas Glave
Review:
Belinda Edmondson's Making Men
Antonia MacDonald-Smythe
Small Axe #6 (September 1999)
Contents
Debating the Contemporary in Caribbean Art
Guest edited by Annie Paul and Christopher Cozier
Thinking the Diaspora: Home-thoughts from Abroad
Stuart Hall
Between Narratives and Other Spaces
Christopher Cozier
Confounding Categories:
The Global and the Local in the Process of a Caribbean Art
Philip Scher
Unistalling the Nation:
The Dilemma of Contemporary Jamaican Art
Annie Paul
Conceptualizing the Boundaries of Nation-Space:
Some Thoughts on Art, Criticism and the Creation of a Canon
Gabrielle Hezekiah
Culture and Politics:
From a Museum to an Independent Project
Virginia Perez-Ratton
Artist's Projects:
Windows, Not Mirrows
Annalee Davis
Time
Wendy Nanan
The Pyramid Series
Eddie Bowen
The Cloth
Robert Young
Gallery: Images by different artists including Guy Beckles, Samuel Walrond, Parma and Prabhu Singh, Ché Lovelace, Johnny Stollmeyer, Peter Minshall, Francisco Cabral, Anna Serrao, Steve Ouditt, Wendy Nanan, Eddie Bowen, also images from the Big River Workshop
Interview:
A Conversation with Chris Cozier, Annalee Davis
Reviews:
Whose Mirror Image? A review of Art in Barbados
Joscelyn Gardner
Caribbean Art
Judith Bettelheim
Small Axe #5 (March 1999)
Contents
Garvey and the Black Transnation
Charles Carnegie
A Man who Knows his Roots: J.J. Thomas and Current
Discourses of Black Nationalism and Canon Formation
Faith Smith
Jamaica Kincaid and the Genealogy of Exile
Belinda Edmondson
Jamaican Popular Culture, Caribbean Literature,
and the Representation of Gay and Lesbian Sexuality
in the Discourses of Race and Nation
Timothy Chin
Reluctant Matriarch: Sylvia Wynter and the
Problematics of Caribbean Feminism
Natasha Barnes
Three Stains on Paper: A Visual Essay
(from the artist's "Cultural Autopsy" series)
Christopher Cozier
The Archaeology of Black Memory:
An Interview with Robert A. Hill
David Scott
Reviews:
The "Limbo" Imagination and New World Reformation in Earl Lovelace's Salt
Jennifer Rahim
"No Problem for Whom? Tourism Matters in Jamaica
(review of Frank Taylor's To Hell with Paradise)
Jenny Burman
Unsilencing the Past, Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones
Donette A. Francis
Small Axe #4 (September 1998)
Contents
Editor's Note
Anthony Bogues
Philosophy and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
Paget Henry
Investigating the Radical Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
Anthony Bogues
The Problem of Biography in the Study of
the Thought of Black Intellectuals
Lewis R. Gordon
Legislating Taste: The Curator's Palette
Annie Paul
"No Savior from on High": An Interview with Ken Post
David Scott
Art/Work:
Trinidad Theatre Workshop
Abigail Hadeed
Book Discussion:
Charles Mills
The Racial Contract
Contracting White Normativity
Lewis Gordon
Race and Revising Liberalism
Anthony Bogues
Opening up the Intellectual Closet of Modern Western Philosophy
Clinton Hutton
Reply to Critics
Charles Mills
Small Axe #3 (March 1998)
Contents
Requiem for Trevor
Laurie Gunst
Do they Mean Us?: A Reflection on
the Making of the Yardie Myth in Britain
Geoff Small
Doing Harm/Doing Violence:
British Media Representations of Jamaican Yardies
Tracey Skelton
The Discourse of AIDS in Caribbean Popular Music
Curwen Best
Memories of the Left: An Interview with Richard Hart
David Scott
Art/Work:
Catching Shirt
Dawn Scott
Story:
The Story of Oretto Delgado
Harold Delgado Napier
Poems:
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Steve Light
Dinah Washington
Steve Light
Aimé Césaire
Steve Light
Amiri Baraka
Steve Light
Book Discussion:
Anthony Bogues, Caliban's Freedom:
The Early Political Thought of C.L.R. James
Caliban's Freedom: Its Significance
Richard Small
Classical Marxism, Caribbean Radicalism, and the Black Atlantic Intellectual Tradition
Brian Alleyne
C.L.R. James, Black radicalism, and Critical Theory: A Reply
Anthony Bogues
Small Axe #2 (September 1997)
Contents
"Left to the Imagination":
Indian Nationalism and Female Sexuality in Trinidad
Tejaswini Niranjana
Midnight's Children and the Legacy of Nationalism
Patricia Mohammed
Obscure Revolt, Profound Effects:
The Henry Rebellion, Counter-Hegemony, and Jamaican Society
Brian Meeks
Walking Around the Language Barrier:
A Caribbean View of the Ebonics Controversy
Hubert Devonish
"Wi a di Govament": An Interview with Anthony B
David Scott
Story
Light in the Shop
Victor Chang
Songs
Ashes on the Window Sill
Della Manley
City Lights
Della Manley
Ribbons
Della Manley
Poems
Turn Thanks Miss Mirry
Lorna Goodison
Busha Graver's Saddle, Richmond, Hanover
Margaret Bernal
Reviews by Robert Buddan (Rachel Manley, Drumblair), Nadi Edwards (Heather Royes, The Caribbean Raj), Annie Paul (Richard Powell, Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century), and David Scott (Laurie Gunst, Born Fi' Dead; and Geoff Small, Ruthless).
Small Axe #1 (March 1997)
Introducing Small Axe
David Scott
Learning to Blow the Abeng:
A Critical Look at Anti-Establishment Movements
of the 1960s and 1970s
Rupert Lewis
"An Obscure Miracle of Connection":
Discursive Tradition and Black Diaspora Criticism
David Scott
Iconic Drummond:
The Musician as Muse in Four Jamaican Poems
Nadi Edwards
Pirates or Parrots:
A Critical Perspective on the Visual Arts in Jamaica
Annie Paul
Shades of Black and Red: Freedom and Socialism
Anthony Bogues
The Michael Manley/Kari Levitt Exchange,
with a preface
Rex Nettleford
The Vocation of a Caribbean Intellectual:
An Interview with Lloyd Best
David Scott
Politics, Contingency, Strategy:
An Interview with Stuart Hall
David Scott
Reviews by Glyne Griffith (No Critics Please!),
and Nadi Edwards (Lorna Goodison, To Us all Flowers are Roses)
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