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Small Axe #24 (October 2007)

Contents

From New World to Abeng: George Beckford and the Horn of Black Power in Jamaica, 1968-1970
Robert A. Hill

Infrastructures of the Imagined Island: Re-spatializing the Virtual Caribbean
Mimi Sheller

The Fact of Blackness?: The Problem of the Bleached Body in Contemporary Jamaica
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 Caribbean Feminist Ethic
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)