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Appropriating Anton de Kom Today: Canonization, Translation, Celebration

Karwan Fatah-Black
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 78–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461857
Published: 01 March 2023
...Karwan Fatah-Black This essay explores the renewed attention for Anton de Kom and the ways this engagement revisits older questions about his life and work and opens new avenues for inquiry. This renewed interest has led to new forms of appropriation: the use of his likeness and his name...
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Citizenship Violence and the Afterlives of Dutch Colonialism: Rereading Anton de Kom

Guno Jones
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461885
Published: 01 March 2023
...Guno Jones Through a close reading of Anton de Kom’s Wij slaven van Suriname ( We Slaves of Surinam e), this essay explores the complex legal, symbolic, social, and political lives of differentially positioned humans in the Dutch colonial and postindependent context. Firstly, De Kom’s 1934 book...
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Other Radicals: Anton de Kom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition

Wayne Modest, Susan Legêne
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461814
Published: 01 March 2023
...Wayne Modest; Susan Legêne This essay is an introduction to a special section that focuses on the life and work of Anton de Kom, and especially on his seminal 1934 Wij slaven van Suriname . It forms part of a larger project that explores how a Caribbean intellectual tradition can be thought...
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More Relevant Than Ever: We Slaves of Suriname Today

Mitchell Esajas
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 87–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461871
Published: 01 March 2023
...Mitchell Esajas Anton de Kom was an anticolonial thinker, resistance fighter, father, author, and poet—a renaissance man par excellance born in the Dutch colony Suriname. In his Wij slaven van Suriname (1934), De Kom, as a descendant of enslaved peoples in Suriname, described with razor-sharpness...
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Displacing Wij slaven van Suriname : Other Collateral Effects

Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 67–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461843
Published: 01 March 2023
...Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha This essay seeks to speculate on the reception of de Anton de Kom’s Wij slaven van Suriname (1934) within a very different context of political debates on race; decolonization; the politics of solidarity; and internationalist and anticapitalist struggles—all themes...
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Canonizing De Kom: Sacrality, Blackness, and the Nation in Postcolonial Netherlands

Markus Balkenhol
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 59–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461828
Published: 01 March 2023
...Markus Balkenhol How did Anton de Kom become national heritage? This essay argues that De Kom’s successful canonization is owed in significant part to his sacralization. It shows that in De Kom’s case, the sacralizing power of heritage has three dimensions: his narrative framing, his image, and his...
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Decolonization, Otherness, and the Neglect of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean Studies

Margo Groenewoud
Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 102–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8912808
Published: 01 March 2021
... S. Hassankhan, Jerry Egger, and Eric R. Jagdew, eds., Verkenningen in de historiografie van Suriname: Van koloniale geschiedenis tot geschiedenis van het volk / Explorations in the Historiography of Suriname: From Colonial History to History of the People (Paramaribo: Anton de Kom University...
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On the Self-Evidence of Blackness: An Interview with Charl Landvreugd

Wayne Modest
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 123–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2826497
Published: 01 November 2014
... intellectuals from a Caribbean intellectual tradition. In my preliminary search to find out about this lack, the first name that comes up is Antón de Kom and his book We Slaves of Suriname , not Cairo. 10 To what extent did the writing of de Kom influence the work of Cairo, or influence your own interest...
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Making History Visible: Caribbean Artist Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Nazi Internment

Sarah Phillips Casteel
Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8912768
Published: 01 March 2021
... entanglements between wartime Europe and its Caribbean and African colonies. Indeed, Nassy was not the only Surinamer to be imprisoned by the Nazis. The anticolonial thinker and revolutionary Anton de Kom, who was born in 1898 in Suriname’s capital, Paramaribo, was arrested in the Netherlands as a member...
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Reading for Time in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Richard Drayton
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10899176
Published: 01 November 2023
... to works as varied as Anton de Kom’s Wij sklaven von Suriname , Fernando Ortiz’s Contrapunteo cubano , C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins , Henri Bangou’s La Guadeloupe , Eric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery or From Columbus to Castro , and Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa...
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One and Divisible: Meditations on Global Blackness

Silvio Torres-Saillant
Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 4–25.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3697226
Published: 01 July 2009
... the Great’s Russia, differently from the ways it mattered to Surinamese political thinker Anton de Kom in the 1930s or to his US contemporary Marian Anderson, the revered operatic singer from Philadelphia. Similarly, if we wished to organize a political panorama whereby a global blackness...
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