...Claudette Anderson Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Caliban’s Reason and the Future of Afro-Caribbean Philosophy Claudette Anderson aget Henry, in his book Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy, has done an excellent job of excavating what he terms the “implicit...

...Paget Henry Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro- Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics Paget Henry must begin by thanking Brian Meeks, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Patrick Goodin, and Claudette Anderson for taking the time to put down so clearly...

...Yomaira C. Figueroa This essay contends that Caribbean conceptualizations of relation, understood through the theorizing and political organizing of women of color feminists, offer decolonial possibilities that enable radical remappings of the Afro-Atlantic. The essay argues that the political...

... of the light it sheds on the mechanics of anglophone Afro-Caribbean intellectual formation, self-representation, and epistemology posited in newspapers, nonfiction books, and speeches produced in the Caribbean during this period. This article is a reading of a conceptual thread that runs through Smith's book...

... colonial discourse. Through it, Thomas and other Afro-Caribbean intellectuals shaped the perception and material reality of their individual, ethnic, and national communities. © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 BOOK DISCUSSION: Faith Smith, Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation...

...Evelyne Laurent-Perrault This essay engages Vanessa K. Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg . It traces Valdés’s main contributions and notes that her work invites readers to expand their views of Schomburg’s Afro-Caribbean/Latinx/Latin American identity...

...Elizabeth E. Sine This essay explores the making of a radical cultural politics amid the global crisis of the 1930s and 1940s through a study of the life and work of dancer Si-lan Chen. Born in Trinidad to Afro-Caribbean and Chinese parents, trained as a ballerina in Moscow, and an active supporter...

...Patrick Goodin Small Axe Incorporated 2002 BOOK DISCUSSION: CALIBAN’S REASON Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy, Paget Henry. New York: Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0415926459 Caliban’s Cry: Reflections on the Meaning of Philosophy in Caliban’s Reason Patrick...

... previously charted: that of Afro-Caribbean philosophy. PHis central thesis is the confi rmation of the existence of an Afro-Caribbean philoso- phy, albeit a minor tradition, operating in the interstices of the more dominant forms of Caribbean intellectual production. He divides Afro-Caribbean philosophy...

... of heterosexual masculinity but, as Rinaldo Walcott argues in a different context, “a heterosexual black masculinity is assumed and always found wanting.” 26 Thus Walcott's analysis brings together the assumed heterosexuality of (Afro-)Caribbean masculinity, the normalization of heterosexuality...

... of translation in By Word of Mouth are evident in “Prelude in Boricua,” his translation of “Preludio in Boricua,” the opening poem in Luis Palés Matos's influential 1937 collection Tuntún de pasa y grifería: Poemas afroantillanos , a cornerstone of modern Puerto Rican poetry and a landmark of Afro-Caribbean...

... on local experiences. By this I mean issues such as the American occupation, the national sentiment it created, and the rise in Africanity and African ideology. At the same time, much Caribbean poetry has, of necessity, been a revolutionary poetry. Th us, the poetry of Afro-Dominicans³ in particular...

... on a book that explores the influence of Haitian Vodou on black American feminism. Moving from the interwar ethnographies of Zora Neale Hurston and Katherine Dunham to the resurgence of Vodou imagery in texts by Audre Lorde and Lucille Clifton, this work argues that Afro-Caribbean spirituality has taught...

.../Caribbean region of the Com- monwealth Prize 2004, and her second, The Scorpion’s Claw was released in 2005. She is also the author of two books of literary criticism, Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (1997); and Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile...

..., economic thought, or the historical knowledge of the region? In this mix, where do Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean religious practices fit? Do these religious practices not invoke, as Joan Dayan argues, a “project of thought,” with the “intensity of interpretation” that is allowed by such practices...

... all too familiar to those in the Caribbean, itself one of the oldest contributors to Britain's wealth. When, for instance, the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection societies drafted resolutions against forced labor in postwar South Africa, it was Pan-African activists such as the Afro-Caribbean J. E...

... lines in a number of ways. Before independence, calypsonians from other countries—usually, like most Trinidadian calyp- sonians, from the Afro-Caribbean diaspora—could and did participate in competitions. As Rohlehr recalls, “Since the thirties, musical bands would come across Guyana to play...

..., Antoinette’s caretaker during childhood and the novel’s only prominent Afro-Caribbean character, remains “tangential” and “cannot be contained by a novel which rewrites a canonical English text within the European novelistic tradition in the interest of the white Creole rather than the native.” 21...

... to Caribbean sexuality and nonbinary gender are addressed. King ends by introducing her current research project, which uses existing and imagined archives to examine Afro-Trinidadian women's protest and performance in the late nineteenth century. I will be very happy when the realities...

... no serious indigenous intellectual life.” 51 In 1970 Jamaican playwright, historian, and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter drew on the work of late Haitian ethnographer Jean Price-Mars when she argued that Afro-Caribbean rural culture had become indigenous: “The more total alienation of the New World...