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One Sustained Moment: The Constant Re-creation of Caribbean Sexualities
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Rosamond S. King King responds to essays by noted scholars Faith Smith and Lisa Outar critiquing her 2014 book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination . In particular, she addresses the choice to examine interracial relationships between Caribbean men of color...
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Erotic Synergies and Variances in the Sexual Vernacular of the Postcolonial Dutch Caribbean
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Wigbertson Julian Isenia This keyword essay traces the historical trajectory of the term kambrada . It argues for a broader understanding of Caribbean sexual dynamics, utilizing sources ranging from travelogues and novels to modern activist interviews. Kambrada , which is akin to mati in Suriname...
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Indigenous Sexualities: Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies and the Radical Politics of Scholarship
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Lisa Outar This essay offers a critical engagement with Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014), arguing that King enacts a ground-shifting interdisciplinary and translinguistic approach to the study of Caribbean sexualities and gender...
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Queer Livity in the Caribbean: Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Faith Smith This essay responds to Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014) by noting the convergence of progressive legislation and violence that renders notions of transgression and freedom contradictory and fraught in our contemporary moment...
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Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
.... In so doing, the authors highlight the ways historical gender and racial stereotypes inform contemporary understandings of Caribbean gender and sexuality. Anchoring this discussion in recent theories about sex and sexuality and specifically examining mixed-race and white Caribbean women, Sam Vásquez...
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Sylvia Wynter's Theory of the Human and the Crisis School of Caribbean Heteromasculinity Studies
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and sexual minorities, masculinity studies does not take up the cause of masculinity. 24 While there is Caribbean masculinity scholarship that follows the patterns observed globally, there is also a distinct strand of policy, academic, and popular knowledge production that deviates from these larger...
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Categories, Citizenship, Erotic Agency, and the Problem of Freedom
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 147–158.
Published: 01 March 2015
... agential capacities of Caribbean working people in their relation with various manifestations of modern cultures of power. The essay questions the liberatory potential of erotic agency or power, arguing for it to be theorized beyond sexually active bodies, particularistic identities and the social...
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Transformista , Travesti , Transgénero : Performing Sexual Subjectivity in Cuba
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
... within queer Cuban and Caribbean studies, noticing the ways they push back against renderings of gender and sexuality as inherently distinct categories. Instead, for these artist-thinkers, trans subjectivity is informed by various experiences related to gender, sexuality, race, class, and geography...
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José E. Muñoz's Critical Caribbean Crossroads
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 78–84.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Maja Horn This essay is a personal reflection on how Horn's scholarship on gender, sexuality, and performance in the hispanophone Caribbean has been shaped by the oeuvre of the late critical theorist José E. Muñoz. In particular, Horn compares and contrasts the uses of “hybridity” and “performance...
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Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
... a discreet “buffer race” between the white minority and the black majority in the Caribbean after abolition. The experiment, which depended on the capacity for the Chinese to develop bourgeois domesticity in the Caribbean after abolition, failed because of sexual intimacies between people of African descent...
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S’habiller sexy en body string : The French Guianese “Bad Gyal” and the Image of French Caribbean Women
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2024
... to embrace her femininity and sexuality and challenge cultural and national codes of respectability. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 French Guiana dancehall French Caribbean women bad gyal Everybody know mi bad from mi born. Mo pa pè pèson, bad gyal a so mi tan...
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Poui before Rain
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 100–114.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Ira Mathur As the Me Too movement gathers momentum, the conversation about the historical exploitation of women and sexual power dynamics has spread to Caribbean literature. This story uses the Poui blossom that flowers in the dry season in Trinidad, an island in the Caribbean, as a metaphor...
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Forging Relational Difference: Racial Gendered Violence and Dispossession in Guyana
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... is gendered and sexualized, consisting of struggles that play out on and through the bodies of Guyanese women. In her analysis of the racialized political violence that followed the 1997 and 2001 elections in Guyana, which primarily targeted people marked as Indo-Guyanese, Caribbean feminist scholar D...
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Diasporic Disciplining of Caliban? Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Intra-Caribbean Politics
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 149–159.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Jana Evans Braziel In her contribution, Braziel resists Torres-Saillant's valorization of diaspora as the anti-dote to national paradigms. As an organizing rubric, “Caribbean diaspora” obscures nationality, class, race, gender, sexuality, and political economy as striating diasporas and diasporic...
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“ Only His Hat Is Left”? Resituating Not-Yet Narratives
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 197–208.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Faith Smith This essay uses the three interlocutors' reflections to return to Creole Recitations , and to reconsider Thomas's nineteenth century as an arena for thinking about Caribbean male intellectuals' self-fashioning and desire, diaspora and degeneration, the sexual politics of creolization...
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Bodies of Horror in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women and Clovis Brown's Cartoons
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Both artists excavate genealogies of horror at the root of Caribbean identity discourse, tracing this through sexual histories linked, respectively, to femaleness and male homosexuality represented as a male-feminine morphology. Ultimately, the texts excavate different spaces of a “demonic ground...
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The Tambourine Army: Sonic Disruptions and the Politics of Respectability
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 35–52.
Published: 01 July 2020
... their abusers, to break the silence surrounding sexual abuse, and to advocate for survivors. Situating the Tambourine Army within traditions of women’s protest and contemporary forms of cyberactivism in the Caribbean, this essay examines the ways the group enacted a sonic disruption to the public and cyber...
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“Our own gayful rest”: A Postcolonial Archive
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2010
... activism of the GFM and J-FLAG, respec-
tively, Caribbean women’s studies, specifically the work of M. Jacqui Alexander, Kamala
Kempadoo, and Tracy Robinson, makes valuable connections between the sociolegal con-
struction of gender and sexualities in the postcolonial Caribbean. Robinson...
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Dominican Pride and Shame: Gender, Race, and LGBT Activism in Santo Domingo
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., Photography, and Framing the Caribbean (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007); and Angelique V. Nixon, Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015). 31 Marzan, “Attacks on Brewster.” Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe...
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Constructing “Gaydren”: The Transnational Politics of Same-Sex Desire in 1970s and 1980s Jamaica
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 17–33.
Published: 01 July 2019
...,” or the creative interplay between what exists within and beyond the Caribbean region. See Rosamond S. King, Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014). 14 Tim Padgett, “The Most Homophobic Place on Earth,” Time , 12 April 2006...
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