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Tasks without Solutions: Why Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams Matters to Translation Culture and Caribbean Poetics

Rose Réjouis
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2826470
Published: 01 November 2014
... is legible. Clifford remembers Freud because the latter's expansion of the archive has left its mark on cultural translation. Twentieth-century Caribbean poetics has revisited the Freudian idea of an interpretative legibility that is partial, fragmentary, provisional, and subjective, but legitimate...
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Localizing the Aesthetic Search: Walcott's Caribbean Poetics in Abandoning Dead Metaphors

Harold McDermott
Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 177–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-177
Published: 01 March 2003
...: Walcott’s Caribbean Poetics in Abandoning Dead Metaphors Harold McDermott Abandoning Dead Metaphors: e Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry, Patricia Ismond. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2001. ISBN 976-640-107-1 atricia Ismond’s study of what she terms...
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A Case for Relation: Mapping Afro-Latinx Caribbean and Equatoguinean Poetics

Yomaira C. Figueroa
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190526
Published: 01 March 2020
... of color feminist thought has allowed for an expansion of the ways we can map the crossings between Africa and the Caribbean. Focusing on Equatorial Guinea alongside the hispanophone Caribbean through their diasporic poetics has offered me the opportunity to track some of the shared ethics and decolonial...
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Absence and Disappearance: A Black Caribbean Women’s Poetics of the Body

Warren Harding
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 1–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724009
Published: 01 March 2022
... for self-possession and self-pleasure. Through an analysis of absence and disappearance, we can read the works of Philip and Ríos as meaningful expressions of Black Caribbean women’s poetics of the body during the 1980s. As poets who traverse raced, gendered, and national boundaries, they forge voices...
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Dark Horse Poetics: Lévi-Strauss, Benítez-Rojo, and Caribbean Epistemology

Rose Réjouis
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642791
Published: 01 March 2014
...-Rojo's elusive “a certain kind” alludes to this mystical residue in its explicit elevation of the Caribbean's alternative body of knowledge. Out of the discursive tropes established by Lévi-Strauss—as interpreted and extended by Edouard Glissant into a poetics of the diversité of the transformation...
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Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship

Tao Leigh Goffe
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985666
Published: 01 July 2018
... and Asian diasporas. Positioned in the United States and Canada, the artists also mediate another layer of diasporic identity. The photographic poetics formed are from the position of artists who do not live in the Caribbean, which is significant because in many ways the future of the Caribbean Chinese...
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Modern Dermabrasions: Black/Brown after Ren Ellis Neyra’s The Cry of the Senses

Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 163–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901738
Published: 01 July 2022
...Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús This essay sketches out a protocol for reading Ren Ellis Neyra’s The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020) from the vantage point of Ellis Neyra’s more recent work on Brownness and (non)relation. The essay aims to explore further the tensions...
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White Mythologies

Ren Ellis Neyra
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901752
Published: 01 July 2022
...Ren Ellis Neyra This response essay engages the three book discussion essays by Ronald Mendoza–de Jesús, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, and Rocío Zambrana on The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020). Following questions of anti-Blackness in Spanish Caribbean (especially...
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When Tía Ate the Telegram: Defiance, Solidarity, and Multipoetic Sensorial Listening

Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901724
Published: 01 July 2022
...Petra R. Rivera-Rideau This essay applies Ren Ellis Neyra’s concepts of defiance, solidarity, and mulitpoetic sensorial listening from The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020) to the author’s own family story about how her great-aunt ate the telegram announcing her...
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Sensorial Errancy in Decolonial Key

Rocío Zambrana
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901710
Published: 01 July 2022
...Rocío Zambrana This reflection on Ren Ellys Neyra’s The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020) engages their reading of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s cinema, paying particular attention to sensorial actualities that offer apprehension of the past of colonial violence...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901766
Published: 01 July 2022
... of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020). Three new book projects are underway: one titled “Re-reading: The Violence of Relation”; another about the Kardashians, Bobbitts, and domesticity and violence; and a third about the long history of sovereignty in Caribbean literature. A ndil...
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Beyond the Great Camouflage: Haiti in Suzanne Césaire's Politics and Poetics of Liberation

Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3626716
Published: 01 July 2016
...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel Suzanne Césaire's essays in Tropiques make an important intervention in imagining a new Martinican and ultimately Pan-Caribbean identity during World War II. This study examines Césaire's joint politics and poetics of liberation in the context of dissidence in Martinique...
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The Hispanic Caribbean Question: On Geographies of Knowledge and Interlaced Human Landscapes

Silvio Torres-Saillant
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 32–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726842
Published: 01 November 2016
... accounting for a particular relationship with the sea and evoking the discernible trappings of a differentiated culture. I will not begrudge these estimable Antillean men of letters their poetic investment in deciphering keys to the logic of signification in the Caribbean world. But I will express a measure...
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Contemporary Art of the Hispanophone Caribbean Islands in an Archipelagic Framework

Tatiana Flores, Michelle Stephens
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 80–99.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726878
Published: 01 November 2016
..., a field of observation quite in tune with the objectives of Chaos.” 2 Despite these obstacles, locating a distinct Caribbean poetics is very much his goal and continues to be an urgent project for literary scholars, writers, and theorists. 3 When Benítez-Rojo, Edouard Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite...
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Caribbean Regionalism, South Africa, and Mapping New World Studies

Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi
Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2873332
Published: 01 March 2015
... production of the 1920s and 1930s. In Caribbean Discourse , Glissant invites the reader to remember that Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon have Caribbean origins, that despite the universal appeal of their “poetics” and “politics,” they were not “abstract thinkers,” but steeped...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-191
Published: 01 June 2008
... Poetics (1997). He also directs the New World Studies Series at the University Press of Virginia. Caribbean critiques 3YV 'EVMFFIER EXLIVMRK SJ 0IWFMER ERH +EVMXMRK JVSQ XLI %RXMPPIW XLSQEW KPEZI IHMXSV TEKIW TETIV &EGGLEREPMER 7IRXMQIRXW 1YWMGEPTIVMIRGIW ERH...
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For a Caribbean American Graininess: William Carlos Williams, Translator

Urayoán Noel
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 138–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378964
Published: 01 November 2013
... of Caribbean/American landscapes (akin to Edouard Glissant's paysage ), this essay considers the nonequivalences in Williams's translations within a poetics of Caribbean/American graininess. In Caribbean Discourse , Glissant theorizes a poetics of landscape distinct from “the physical nature...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 229–233.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3723125
Published: 01 July 2009
... of the senior editors of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States and an associate editor for Latino Studies, he has authored, among other works, An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (2006), El retorno de las yolas (1999), Caribbean Poetics (1997...
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Conversation Manqué: On Judging Someone Else's Book

Silvio Torres-Saillant
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 179–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-179
Published: 01 June 2008
... Caribbean poetics of earlier literary generations” or to “a more recent generation of Caribbean intellectuals,” to use the temporality suggested by Braziel. My omission of “the deplorable conditions of Haitian migrant workers,” for example, might have seemed less “lamentable...
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Writing the Autobiography of My Father

Curdella Forbes
Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 172–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-1-172
Published: 01 March 2003
...: Walcott’s Caribbean Poetics in Abandoning Dead Metaphors Harold McDermott Abandoning Dead Metaphors: e Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry, Patricia Ismond. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2001. ISBN 976-640-107-1 atricia Ismond’s study of what she terms...
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