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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., highlighting how this literature has long drawn on matrilineal genealogies to examine indentureship, its afterlife, and its significance for contemporary Caribbean feminisms. Critically seen, a focus on mutilated womanhood as individually experienced overshadows decades of Indo-Caribbean women’s empowerment...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Faith Smith This essay discusses Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing as framing an analysis of the curtailment of erotic autonomy in the United States and the Caribbean, the failures of liberal feminism and academia, and the propensity for military intervention, with an examination...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... engagement with discipliniza-
tion has been an insidious contraction of the category human and counterdiscourses that
aim to “facilitate structural failures in some of foundationalism’s most heinous formations—
racism, patriarchy, homophobia, ageism.”1 Caribbean feminisms tell such a story. Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 154–166.
Published: 01 October 2007
...—an ostensibly radical grouping—marking
boundaries around which the project of Caribbean feminism coheres, designating what counts
as feminist and what presumably falls outside of its parameters. The questions and charges
fall heavily, particularly in light of the vociferous contestations...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
... elaboration of two of Wynter’s conceptualizations: indigenization as an alternative to creolization and abduction as a kind of theorizing out from Caribbean reasonings. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Sylvia Wynter creolization antiblackness Caribbean feminism C. L. R. James You may as well stop...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
... notions of Caribbeanness have been forged and a significant medium
through which the Caribbean is imagined as a space to which some belong and not others.
Alexander avoided these rigid judgments other-ing law and, contradictorily, imbuing it with
3. Ngaire Naffine, “In Praise of Legal Feminism...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and Lisa Outar, eds., Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); Rhoda Reddock, “Diversity, Difference, and Caribbean Feminism: The Challenge of Antiracism,” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies , no. 1 (April 2007): 1–24; Linda Peake and D...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and the Problematics of Caribbean Feminism,” Small Axe , no. 5 (March 1999): 34–47; and Shirley Toland-Dix, “ The Hills of Hebron : Sylvia Wynter's Disruption of the Narrative of the Nation,” Small Axe , no. 25 (February 2008): 57–75. 7 For a fascinating account of the Institute of the Black World that takes...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 87–103.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of patriarchy and, at best, as a man caught between the feminist politics of the women in his life and the constraints of a male-centered Caribbean revolutionary and anticolonial tradition. By contrast, this essay argues that the feminism in the play must be read beyond James the man and instead in the context...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 19–33.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Online 16, no. 1 (2020); sfonline.barnard.edu/caribbean-feminisms/the-power-relations-in-the-personal-and-the-conspiracies-of-mutual-caring-we-organize-to-fight-them . 17 Honor Ford-Smith, “The Principle of Justice as a Labor of Caring,” third foreword to Andaiye, The Point Is to Change...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 65–80.
Published: 01 November 2020
... for understanding late colonialism in the Caribbean, it has caricatured Caribbean feminist interventions in nationalist projects, and it contributes to the feminization of an enduring Caribbean “coloniality.” © 2020 Small Axe, Inc. 2020 marriage gender nationalism black families In Jamaica...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2022
... into reading Capetillo, I endeavor to illustrate the richness in her being a lectora while respecting the fact that she consistently defied constraining labels. As a preamble, let us establish that Luisa Capetillo holds a significant place in the trajectory of Puerto Rican and Caribbean feminisms...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... a methodology akin to Glissant’s concept of errantry, a following of the roots and routes of the Crossing and their afterlives. Building on scholarship in Caribbean history, theory, aesthetics, feminisms, and diaspora, I engage relationality as a decolonizing methodology that allows for the critical linking...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 35–52.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of mouth, and chisme (gossip), we present an archive of the Tambourine Army’s work. 10 In doing so, we illuminate the ways Caribbean feminisms are constituted through ephemeral actions and sites that, although fleeting, propel change. The politics of respectability is a value complex...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 171–181.
Published: 01 July 2021
..., and Selwyn Cudjoe and has been extended, more recently, by Raj Chetty and others. 6 A particular urgency, moreover, informs the analysis in Beyond Coloniality because of its explicit and heavy investments in feminism. A major premise in this work is that Caribbean feminisms “constitute the single most...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., “Fictions of Citizenship, Bodies without Sex: The Production and Effacement of Gender in Law,” Small Axe , no. 7 (2000): 1–27; and “Gender, Feminism, and Constitutional Reform in the Caribbean,” in Bailey and Leo-Rhynie, Gender in the Twenty-First Century , 592–625. 61 Wynter, “Black Metamorphosis...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 February 2008
... Adams: Conversations with Contemporary West Indian Writers (1984; reprint
Yorkshire: Peepal Tree Books, 1992), 277.
32. Natasha Barnes makes a similar point in “Reluctant Matriarch: Sylvia Wynter and the Problematics of Caribbean
Feminism” in Small Axe no. 5 (March 1999): 43...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Barnes, “Reluctant Matriarch: Sylvia Wynter and the Problematics of Caribbean Feminism,” Small Axe , no. 5 (March 1999): 34–47. 25 Paget Henry, “Sylvia Wynter: Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Thought,” in Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2000), 117...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 71–83.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of another state. “Feminizing” a powerful leader compensated for the state's sense of dishonor. Critics such as M. Jacqui Alexander have pointed out that, faced with the ignominy of its own economic and political paralysis with the structural adjustment programs of the 1980s, the Caribbean state sought...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 63–72.
Published: 01 July 2024
... in bringing together elements thought to be incompatible or inappropriate, or that are socially segregated. Such a view may have empowered Cooper’s Caribbean gender politics. It would, though, betray a North American feminism in the 1990s that celebrated a “global sisterhood” but was ill at ease...
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