Small Axe #32

Contents

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
Petrine Archer

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