back issues
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
Contributors
Small Axe #23 (March 2007)
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
Contributors
Small Axe #22 (December 2006)
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
Contributors
Small Axe #21 (October 2006)
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 Disscussion
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 (September 2006)
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 Disscussion
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
Contributors
Small Axe #19 (March 2006)
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 Disscussion:
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
Issue Cover:
From the project, “Bon Dieu Bon,” in the series “In-Transit,” by Edgar Endress.
The artist writes: “The content is a series of objects abandoned by illegal immigrants in the bush at various landing sites on St. John, USVI. Items include identity cards, passports, letters to and from friends and family, and personal items like sunglasses and identifying jewelry, etc. These objects are left by Haitians, Dominicans, Chinese, and other Caribbean island peoples as they migrate into the USVI seeking employment.”
See:http://www.eendress.com/BDBmain.htm
Small Axe #18 (September 2005)
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)
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 Disscussion
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
"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)
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 Disscussion
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)
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)
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)
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 Disscussion
B. W. Higman's Writing West Indian Histories
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)
Genders and Sexualities
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)
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)
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)
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 Disscussion
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)
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 Disscussion
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)
"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 by 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)
