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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Patricia J. Saunders A discussion of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Small Axe Incorporated 2009 Woman Overboard: The Perils
of Sailing the Black Atlantic,
Deportation with Prejudice
Patricia J. Saunders
Homing pigeons gather aimlessly...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Phanuel Antwi Rereading dub poetry under the pressures of and with the resources of black feminist and queer theory, and treating the practice of dub poetry as a production of a sound archive, one that embodies and aurally animates the intimacies of the black Atlantic, this essay highlights...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 95–107.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Pablo F. Gómez This essay offers the Spanish Caribbean as a showcase for the central role black Atlantic healers and their culture played in shaping the Atlantic world of knowledge production about the body and the natural world during the seventeenth century. The author examines how...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 63–72.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Louis Chude-Sokei This essay gauges the significance and legacy of Carolyn Cooper’s Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the “Vulgar” Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993). It discusses the book’s impact across and against the “Black Atlantic” paradigm, the rise and limits of global...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
... glimpses of the diversity of perspectives and political imaginaries among people of African descent and their extensive ties to a wider black Atlantic. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 black Britain empire/colonialism postimperial racism intimacy interracial children Straddling the Atlantic Ocean...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 255–273.
Published: 01 July 2013
... a painter and critic for the New York–based Arts Magazine is of singular importance to the historiography of the visual culture of the “black Atlantic.” In particular, the six articles he wrote for the magazine between 1969 and 1971, in which he meditated on the notion of “black art,” reveal the ambivalent...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Espinet's The Swinging Bridge , characterize the black Atlantic's colonial history as an outstanding debt. Collectively, they demonstrate that this past continues to overdetermine the transnational present. This assertion challenges cultural studies' tendency to parse “the colonial,” “the postcolonial...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 80–88.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Dominique Aurélia This article sheds light on an original fiction by the young award-winning Martinican writer Fabienne Kanor, who uniquely problematizes questions of collective memory and gender in the Black Atlantic. This paper examines the use of the poetics of staggering and the dislocation...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 175–184.
Published: 01 March 2016
... as an alternative to the different varieties of absolutism which would confine culture in ‘racial,’ ethnic or national essences.” 1 To say that these statements are the basis of his beyond influential The Black Atlantic is both obvious and a little skewed. 2 The Black Atlantic argues for a rethinking...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 100–107.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Grégory Pierrot This essay presents and studies five different words used in French to express the notion of Blackness . The five words analyzed— nègre , noir , black , renoi , and négro —entered the French language between the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and the Mighty Sparrow’s calypsos concern the impact of centuries of Atlantic slavery on black hearing and speaking. They expose the racial and economic determinants of sound studies’ advocacy of indifferent listening and pure sound environments. In contrast, Caribbean histories of resourceful hearing...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 88–99.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the beginning of a real and sustained dialogue between Hall's brand of black British cultural studies and, on the other side of the Atlantic, African American studies. At the start of this dialogue, each had their blind spots—on the one hand, in its Marxist orientation British cultural studies, like...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., Black Atlantic . 56 See Byron Farwell, The Great Anglo-Boer War (New York: Harper and Row, 1976). Also see Michael Barthorp, The Anglo-Boer Wars: The British and Afrikaners, 1815–1902 (New York: Blandford, 1987). The use of concentration camps by the Germans for the Herero in what is now...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 41–49.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the juxtapositions of various voices this work examines how the legacy of black families in the Caribbean connects with the stories of European maritime `hero's, such as Frances Drake, Christopher Columbus, Walter Raleigh and James Cook. Images of state sanctioned and educational authorities are placed alongside...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., the essay author revisits her hesitations regarding slavery’s archive and the stakes of approaching the silences of enslaved people in the records. Drawing on pivotal work in black feminist studies, this essay rearticulates the nuances of Saidiya Hartman’s “critical fabulation” to bring attention back...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of Independence and the calls to maintain that independence in accordance with their imperialistic ambitions in the Caribbean. The contest over Haitian history thus became a means through which to discuss the nature of imperial control and black independence in the Atlantic world. In the creation of each...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 209–212.
Published: 01 July 2011
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plinary Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2010). She is the author of the forthcoming book
Committed to Memory: The Slave Ship Icon in the Black Atlantic Imagination and coauthor
of Harlem: A Century in Images (2010) and Diaspora, Memory, Place: David Hammons, Maria
Magdalena...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 84–99.
Published: 01 September 2004
... areas to visualize the history of the Middle Passage. Blind Memory: Visual
Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780–1865 (New York: Routledge, 2000), 14–77. Also, in
Th e Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), Paul...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940 (Durham, NC: Duke University
Press, 2008). See also Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1993); and Joseph Roach, Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (New...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 213–227.
Published: 01 July 2012
... parts. In light of the number of people involved in producing Annotating Art's Histories, this cooperative dimension in intellectual life is exactly what has enabled black Atlantic dialogues to flourish over the past twenty years. Chambers and I are both part of that motley cohort of black Brits who...
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