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The Spanish Caribbean Confederation: Modern Subjectivities and a Rhetoric of Failure
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 53–60.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Ángel A. Rivera This essay explores Eugenio María de Hostos’s and Ramón E. Betances’s notions of modern subjectivities, in the context of Romantic narratives, to index the fractures of collective and communal nationalist imaginaries within the Caribbean Confederation. Hostos and Betances were...
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Future Impossible Communities
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Jossianna Arroyo This response essay reviews the six contributions to the special section “Con-Federating the Archipelago: The Confederación Antillana and the West Indies Federation.” These key interventions on the Spanish Caribbean Confederation projects in the nineteenth century and the West...
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Spanish Caribbean Literature: A Heuristic for Colonial Caribbean Studies
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 65–79.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... Then it focuses on the meaning of the nineteenth century in the Spanish Caribbean, with particular attention to the Caribbean confederation and 1898 as key moments in the colonial and decolonial process of this region. Then the essay turns to the notion of criollismo in the Spanish Caribbean and its dialectic...
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Con-Federating the Archipelago: Introduction
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 37–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Antillana West Indies Federation comparative Caribbean studies Pan-Caribbean discourse The Confederación Antillana (Antillean Confederation), a project that was conceived in the Spanish Caribbean during the second half of the nineteenth century without acquiring any legal jurisdiction, and the West...
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West Indian Literature and Federation: Imaginative Accord and Uneven Realities
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 78–86.
Published: 01 March 2020
... realities of economic markets and measures and caught between national and international belongings. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 federation West Indian literature Caribbean regionalism belonging aesthetic In as much as the late nineteenth-century Antillean Confederation...
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Regionalism, Imperialism, and Sovereignty: West Indies Federation and the Occupation of Haiti
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 61–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
... that project as ambitiously multilingual and Pan-Caribbean, simultaneously calling for a “confederation” of British colonies alongside a “union” with subjects of other empires and nominally independent nation-states. He arrives at his vision by building on the lessons of Haiti’s occupation, demanding not only...
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History and the Idea of Hispanic Caribbean Studies
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 49–64.
Published: 01 November 2016
... did political and intellectual work in support of a Caribbean—rather than a strictly national—independence. In the Dominican Republic, independence leader Gregorio Luperón actively supported the independence of Cuba and Puerto Rico. These men and others advocated a Caribbean or Antillean confederation...
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Displacements: The Jamaican 1950s
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
Published: 01 November 2020
... for our presents. Here, Jamaica has been mobilized as an “instance,” one Caribbean geopolitical and historical terrain on which to carry out a methodological exercise. Our intention was not to reify Jamaica but to use it as the paradigmatic basis on which to reconsider the conceptual idioms...
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“The Antilles for the Sons of the Antilles”: On Translating Ramón Emeterio Betances
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 160–165.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of Caribbean decolonization. This speech represents a unique inter-Caribbean intervention in the anti-imperial struggle of the time. With the Cuban Ten Years’ War against Spain in the background, Betances, in contrast to his fellow Cuban and Puerto Rican activists, advocates a vision of Caribbean sovereignty...
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On the Impossibility of All Possibility in Caribbean Theory
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 June 2008
...José F. Buscaglia-Salgado Silvio Torres-Saillant's passionate defense of Caribbean intellectual traditions is far from being “an intellectual history of the Caribbean.” Nevertheless, this is an indispensable book, both for what it says and for the Antillean passion that drives the author's...
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Conversation Manqué: On Judging Someone Else's Book
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 179–190.
Published: 01 June 2008
... in the Caribbean.
The case merely shows a man who in the colonial period thought in accordance with the
articulation of territorial belonging common at the time. Buscaglia-Salgado wishes for political
organization in the Caribbean to happen as a “broad and loose confederation of city states...
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Otto Huiswoud and the Demise of the Red Black Atlantic
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 110–123.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., and the Caribbean, can be reconstructed from his two annual reports on the activities of the ITUCNW, as well his correspondence with Zusmanovich on the establishment of cells in West Africa and a few letters from those in charge of the cells in Liberia and the Gold Coast. 7 Huiswoud’s correspondence...
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Jews and Frenchies: The White Ethnic Minority in the US Virgin Islands
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 69–82.
Published: 01 July 2021
... by their younger generation. 12 See Harry Ezratty, Five Hundred Years in the Jewish Caribbean: The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish in the West Indies (Bulverde, TX: Omni, 2002). 13 Sharon Ebberson, “A Storied Synagogue on St. Thomas,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , 14 February 2014, www.startribune.com...
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Community Building through Creative Placemaking in Bristol, England
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 49–62.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of a Caribbean space, this essay highlights the invisibilized colonial legacy still lingering in metropolitan spaces and the role of the “Black spatial imaginary” in combating this legacy. 1 Creative placemaking is a community-driven, arts-focused initiative typically associated with enhancing an area’s...
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Forêts del Sur and the Pretexts of Glissant's Tout-Monde
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2015
... in a struggle for a confederation of the Antilles is evident, as is the shared belief (or faith, fe ) in the capacity of popular forms of art to give moving expression to a Pan-Americanism that connects the Caribbean to the Latin Americas while also protecting it from an encroaching, anglophone United States...
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Caresser's Dominion: Race, Nation, and Calypso in Postwar Canada
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 29–55.
Published: 01 July 2015
... accounts of the evolution of Canadian national identity. See “Dreams of a Tropical Canada: Race, Nation, and Canadian Aspirations in the Caribbean Basin, 1883–1919” (PhD diss., Duke University, 2010) and “Rounding Off the Confederation.” For reasons that I hope will become obvious, I am deeply sympathetic...
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Inter-Asia Journal Work
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 106–114.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., and of linking with its counterparts in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 cultural studies intellectual community Small Axe 's invitation to celebrate its twentieth anniversary has created a moment of pause outside the routine of production to reflect on what journal...
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Black Memory versus State Memory: Notes toward a Method
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 45–62.
Published: 01 June 2008
... structures, resembles many postcolonial regimes in Africa,
Asia, and the Caribbean after World War II, particularly those formerly administered by the
British Empire. As Anthony Bogues has noted, the Jamaican nationalist project in its statist-
sovereign form was led by Creole elites...
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William Galwey Donovan and the Struggle for Political Change in Grenada, 1883-1920
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 17–38.
Published: 01 February 2007
... as well as judiciously using
oral interviews with some of Donovan’s descendants, additional light is shed on an important
moment in Grenada’s political history.
Reduction of Civil Rights
In common with most other British Caribbean colonies, by the late...
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The PPP on Trial: British Guiana in 1953
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 21–42.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... It suggests the ways in which the events in British Guiana represented the inten-
sifi cation of the crisis of colonial rule in the British West Indian colonies, a crisis that
rocked the Caribbean in the 1930s. In British Guiana, the introduction of universal
suff rage and internal self...
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