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Other Radicals: Anton de Kom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
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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Between Revolution and Repair: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa in a Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 66–83.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and intellectual tradition (in this case, the tradition of which West Indies cricket is a constitutive part). From a Caribbean point of view, Walter Rodney’s great book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa , first published in 1972, strikes me in exactly this way. 2 Though its express topic is Africa...
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Sisters Outside: Tracing the Caribbean/Black Radical Intellectual Tradition
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 217–229.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Carole Boyce Davies The authors response to Kevin Gaines' and Patricia Saunders' discussion of Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones. Claudia Jones Small Axe Incorporated 2009 Sisters Outside: Tracing
the Caribbean/Black Radical
Intellectual Tradition...
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Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Mimi Sheller This essay reviews Aaron Kamugisha’s reading of the works of C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter in his 2019 book Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition . Kamugisha issues a resounding call to reenergize the radical Caribbean intellectual...
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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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Abduction and the Grounds of Caribbean Reasoning
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Raj Chetty This review essay engages with Aaron Kamugisha’s 2019 Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition by focusing on its methodological commitment to seeking Caribbean answers to Caribbean political and social problems. The author argues that Kamugisha...
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Reprising the Past, Imagining the Future
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 187–198.
Published: 01 July 2016
... politics and society. Obika Gray and Maziki Thame contributed review essays, tackling many of the issues explored in the book, including the Caribbean black power movement, the Grenada Revolution and its demise, the contemporary state of Jamaican politics, Caribbean intellectual traditions...
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Reading for Time in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... emergency and in a tradition of challenging the constrictions of modern (imperial) time, alive in both elite and popular currents of the Caribbean intellectual tradition. The books Kofi Baadu and Lakshmi were deliberate acts of care for the future. Rodney believed that the promise of Guyana could only...
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Caribbean Freedom beyond Coloniality
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 190–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Aaron Kamugisha This essay proffers a response to three critical engagements with the author’s 2019 Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition . The author contextualizes Beyond Coloniality as a book that seeks to effect a challenging alliance between...
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Gender and the Americanist James
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 171–181.
Published: 01 July 2021
...H. Reuben Neptune This review essay asserts that Aaron Kamugisha’s 2019 Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition , for all its brilliance, does not do justice to the thought of C. L. R. James, especially in relation to gender. After claiming that Kamugisha...
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Introduction: Public Secrets and the Archives of Black Internationalism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 83–86.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in the Dutch Caribbean. This special section aligns with the author’s ongoing interest in Black anticolonial intellectual traditions of the Caribbean—in a project called Other Radicals—and the role of figures from the Dutch Caribbean in this project. More than an interest in the question of power...
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“That Area of Experience That We Term the New World”: Introducing Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis”
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
... interpretations of the black experience in the Western hemisphere ever written by a Caribbean intellectual. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Caribbean intellectual tradition Caribbean thought Sylvia Wynter, circa late 1950s. Photograph by Oswald Jones. Used with permission Sylvia Wynter, circa late 1950s...
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Returns to a Native Land: Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Anglophone Caribbean
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2013
... in the 1960s, this narrative of aboriginal absence was widely incorporated across a range of genres into texts that constitute the anglophone Caribbean's decolonizing intellectual tradition. The essay critically engages with the claim—made most poignantly by Sylvia Wynter and Kamau Brathwaite—that diasporic...
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Writing Caribbean Intellectual History
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 2008
... is a tricky matter. There are not only conven-
tional linguistic divides that balkanize Caribbean thought but also the more critical matter of
what constitutes Caribbean ideas and thought, and thus a Caribbean intellectual tradition.
Is this tradition constituted primarily of political ideas, literature...
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The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and Dutch Speaking Regions (2001); and vol. 3, Cross-Cultural Studies (1997). Michael A. Bucknor and Alison Donnell, eds., The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (London: Routledge, 2011). See also “Intellectual Formations: Locating a Caribbean Critical Tradition,” ed. Donette...
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On the Idea of a Caribbean Cultural Studies
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 43–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
... culture is in many ways inseparable from a study of its intellectual traditions in their social, political, and aesthetic dimensions. While this may seem unremarkable, it bears emphasizing that the study of culture and the creation of a Caribbean cultural studies emerged in a manner quite distinct from...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2009
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an important challenge for cultural-intellectual work. And that challenge might be described
as the working out of a theoretical program for a comparative inquiry of Caribbean intellectual
traditions. For it seems to me that to make productive use of this discrepancy it is not going
to be enough...
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Contexts, Criticism, and Quarrels: A Reflection on Edward Baugh's “The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History”
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 99–107.
Published: 01 July 2012
... for a decolonized Caribbean studies and innovative methodologies, “Quarrel” asserts the imperative of rethinking intellectual traditions and moving beyond the discursive limits of extant notions of history. Its theoretical cogency and relevance subsist on its awareness and reformulation of the central critical...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2002
... diffi culty in Caribbean life is decolonizing the
mind. , is is not to say that the original work done on the economy, history, politics,
and social structures of the Caribbean, work generated by the Caribbean intellectual
tradition to critique and root out the colonial, has been...
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Kamau at Ninety
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
Published: 01 March 2022
... in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019), 215. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Kamau Brathwaite Caribbean thought Barbados Caribbean literature I was in Nevada on 4 February 2020 when I heard that Kamau...
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