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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Shanna Jean-Baptiste This essay explores the decolonial future imagined by the Black women who make up Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020). A much-needed project of historical redress, Joseph-Gabriel’s study...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> and Their Discontents in the <span class="search-highlight">French</span> Context
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 162–173.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel This response essay engages the three book discussion essays by Shanna Jean-Baptiste, Grace Sanders Johnson, and Tobias Warner on the author’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020). Building on the speculative...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 154–161.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Tobias Warner Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020) models the critical possibilities of attending to the overlooked records of Black women’s political imaginations. This discussion essay explores what happens if we...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 131–142.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Grace L. Sanders Johnson This conversation piece celebrates Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s inspiring study Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020) through the parallel histories of the Martinican theorist Suzanne Césaire and the Haitian intellectual...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 206–214.
Published: 01 November 2024
... and imperial powers overseas? How does a Black feminist ethics become mobilized as a praxis? What might it mean to bring the fire this time? Those familiar with contemporary Haitian politics will know that those fomenting class rebellion in Haiti today would be met not by the French military or the US Marines...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2024
... controversial conversations on topics related to Black popular culture in the French Caribbean. In Lyrics and Chill , one of his web series, Specta and his cohosts discuss Bamby’s style of s’habiller sexy en body string (dressing sexy in a body string) and the representation of women in the media. He asks...
View articletitled, S’habiller sexy en body string : The <span class="search-highlight">French</span> Guianese “Bad Gyal” and the Image of <span class="search-highlight">French</span> Caribbean <span class="search-highlight">Women</span>
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 143–165.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of the African American woman turns into a squared quandary
for the French Antillean woman. For her, negotiating what it means to be black and French
under the universal ideal of a republican political regime is overshadowed by what being a
citizen of her country—Guadeloupe, Martinique, or Guyane—might...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 164–173.
Published: 01 July 2011
... already been a complicated contest for power
among British (Protestant) settlers, “French (Catholic) creoles,” the “French mulatto elite,” and
the increasingly powerful the black middle and working classes—not to mention the distinct
“panyol” peasantry. Until Creole Recitations, this complex...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 69–84.
Published: 01 March 2022
... gods, Maximin further upsets the perceived supremacy of the colonizer as constituted through the archives. 34 Resistance is also manifested through the voices and actions of Black women protagonists who represent those who are the most silent in French colonial records. 35 Maximin recounts...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 244–246.
Published: 01 November 2013
... to debates about sovereignty in the (French) Caribbean. After her tenure with the society, she will join Yale University's faculty as assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies. W endy A squith is a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom and an AHRC...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of the
IDEOLOGY IN region.
The volume includes an extensive introduction
BLACK WOMEN’S by the editors and essays by Antonio Benítez-
FILM AND Rojo, Derek Walcott...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 156–166.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Vincent McDoom, a Black Caribbean-born model from St. Lucia and French TV personality known for cross-dressing, as Krys’s lyrics denounce the visibility of flamboyant homosexual individuals whose presence hides “real” Black Caribbean masculinity: Brilé Tout’ Bisexuel Transsexuel Homosexuel é Travèsti...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 116–139.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Characters,” in Race
and the Enlightenment, ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997), 30–33.
See also T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in
French (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), 24. Here Sharpley...
View articletitled, Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives on <span class="search-highlight">Women</span> in the Discourses of Radical <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> Caribbean Men
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., documentary film, and theater and performance since the 1930s that have critiqued—and imagined alternatives to—the gendered anti-Black violence produced through the imposition of ethnonational discourse on the colony and its diaspora. F atoumata S eck is an assistant professor of French at Stanford...
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Régine Jean-Charles’s Black Feminist Ethical Reading of Twenty-First-Century Haitian Women’s Fiction
Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., Jean-Charles emphasizes the ordinariness of the characters’ lives. She identifies joy, care, and the erotic as central to the other worlds the writers invite readers to imagine. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Black feminism Haitian women’s fiction ethics of care...
View articletitled, Régine Jean-Charles’s <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> Feminist Ethical Reading of Twenty-First-Century Haitian <span class="search-highlight">Women’s</span> Fiction
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 91–101.
Published: 01 November 2015
... French republicanism but to deconstruct the essentialism behind the latter's purported colorblindness and challenge the persistence of antiblack racism. Ultimately, both thinkers rebut charges of divisiveness by formulating a “radical Black humanism” that recognizes the thorny complexities of France's...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
... that citizenship and association with Whiteness do not always work as shields for Black women in colonial (and even noncolonized) spaces, in the case of Ethiopia. Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (Champaign: University of Illinois Press...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 239–242.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Studies, and Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. deBorAh A. thoMAs is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and the director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 17–33.
Published: 01 July 2024
... as a seemingly meek maid, dutifully reading French letters to the Europeanized Marie-Jeanne, and once as a powerful Vodouwizan who, in a dance with Dessalines, is possessed by a revolutionary lwa (imperfectly translated as god or spirit). These two seemingly polarized portraits of Black women’s spiritual...
View articletitled, “A New Rhythm Starts Immediately”: <span class="search-highlight">Women’s</span> Spiritual Literacy in The <span class="search-highlight">Black</span> Jacobins
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 100–107.
Published: 01 July 2022
... history and culture, similarly has become a steady presence in French media. The year 2017 alone saw the production of several documentaries that center the experiences of Black women in France, such as Amandine Gay’s Ouvrir la voix ( Speak Up ) and Mame-Fatou Niang’s Mariannes noires . It also saw...
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