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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2016
... gifted political intellectuals is heard in the United States and in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Both the quality of social thought and regard for political intellectuals as agents of transformative change are alleged to be in steep decline in these islands. Brian Meeks's recent collection of essays...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of intergenerational responsibility that shape climate adaptation, and they examine the shifting meaning of technology to regional identity. Caribbean technological thought has emerged alongside a distinct indigenized politics of intergenerational responsibility and knowing for engineers. Many I know trace...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 2008
... as modes of thought. It also argues that if Caribbean thought gets knotted up in the trope of Caliban, it will not decolonize itself and begin to wrestle with what Kamau Brathwaite has called the “inner plantation.” Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Writing Caribbean Intellectual History Anthony Bogues...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 190–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
... studies of the anglophone Caribbean’s postindependence social and political order and scholarship on Caribbean thought. Ultimately, Beyond Coloniality engages in a quest for freedom beyond neocolonial citizenship. I would like to thank the reviewers for their reflective and considered responses...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 86–88.
Published: 01 March 2018
... thought needs to rediscover and reengage with its radical foundations. Was the world ready for Éloge de la créolité when it appeared in 1989? The broader world, of course, paid little attention to a manifesto written by three French Caribbean intellectuals—Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the most important unpublished nonfiction work by an anglophone Caribbean intellectual and is the major guide to the transition in Wynter's thought between her work mainly on the Caribbean and black America in the 1960s and 1970s and her theory of the human from the early 1980s onward. Not only does...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 21–32.
Published: 01 November 2010
... globalization, or mondialisation, as it is often termed in French), that the international movement between francophone Caribbean thought and writing and those of other traditions (anglophone writ large or European, for example) does not seem to be any more smooth or successful than...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that subverts itself— is the primary focus of this essay. I arrive at the GPI adventitiously. I am, in the first place, a historian of modern India and thus appear as parvenu within the vibrant debates constituting the history of black British political thought and an emergent Caribbean intellectual history...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Kate Perillo This essay situates Nalo Hopkinson’s science fiction novel Midnight Robber within an understudied tradition of critical and creative thought that theorizes technological futurity in distinctly Caribbean terms. Although not typically read as “science fiction,” Édouard Glissant’s...
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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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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean Studies,” 102–15; and Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi, “Peter Abrahams’s Island Fictions for Freedom,” 84–101. 51 Hearne, introduction, xi. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Caribbean intellectual history black radical tradition Caribbean thought Caribbean studies...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
...— This Island Now (1966) and The View from Coyaba (1985)—fictionalize the transition to independence in the anglophone Caribbean and how that transition related to the set of concerns unfolding across the rest of the black world. This essay traces Abrahams’s thought on questions of race and decolonization...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
Published: 01 March 2022
... homeland, Barbados, and an admirer of his marvelous creative voice and uniquely insightful sustained vision of the future of the Caribbean. What follows is an account of my fraught attempt to shelter and represent this legacy of a living tradition of Caribbean thought in the form of a major praise song...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 80–94.
Published: 01 July 2014
... popular thought promises to elucidate connections across the island as well as ties to networks and neighbors throughout the Caribbean. Santo Domingo—delicately from 1844 and again in 1865, the Dominican Republic—has long been part of a geographic and human system. Under other monikers, parts...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 June 2008
... intellectual traditions against the hegemony of what he terms the “Western intellectual industry” is one more and meritorious attempt to enunciate the elusive movement and dispersed geography of Caribbean thought.1 In a performative way the book is a sort of treaty on the subject. It is also...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and the migration of black Caribbean thought to Romantic-era London. Her essay in this issue is part of her book project, Romantic Commons: Resisting Enclosure in Great Britain and the Caribbean, 1750 1850. Eddie Chambers i s a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas, Austin...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 187–198.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., and the Black Power movement, not to mention Dudus and Zeeks, would have laid the basis for such an investigation. I am particularly concerned with Gray in this respect, where he says, “Regarding Meeks's urgent concern for finding new directions in Caribbean thought, his deft summaries and critique of a variety...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2019
... is a thoughtful critical reflection on the Caribbean, its multiplicity, and its course of change over a lifetime. The discussion also traces Birbalsingh’s migrations to India, Canada, New Zealand, and Nigeria and examines how these journeys have shaped his critical work within the fields of Commonwealth...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 116–126.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Brathwaite’s insights of how a psycho-poetics of thought shapes Caribbeanness. Let me begin with an assertion that will worry some: Caribbean studies and Black studies are twins. I do not come to this claim easily nor facilely, but I have arrived here after seriously thinking about the stakes of Black...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 186–189.
Published: 01 November 2009
... founded the journal Arthème in 1999. Celia M. Britton is professor of French and francophone literature at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy. She has published widely on French Caribbean litera- ture and thought, particularly on the work of Edouard Glissant. Her books...