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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
..., “New World and Its Critics,” in Meeks and Girvan, The Thought of New World , 17. See also Norman Girvan, “Caribbean Dependency Thought Revisited,” Canadian Journal of Development Studies 27, no. 3 (2006): 328–52. For a discussion on how Girvan’s time in the NWG shaped his career in government...
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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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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. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Caribbean thought coloniality postcolonial citizenship C...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 86–88.
Published: 01 March 2018
... prepared reading public. Referring to some recent global events, and drawing on a largely neglected pamphlet by Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, the author wonders if the time for the Éloge and the broader, related Caribbean theories of history and culture may have arrived and argues that Caribbean...
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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 (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 (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
... See, for example, Brian Meeks and Folke Lindahl, eds., New Caribbean Thought: A Reader (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2001); Silvio Torres-Saillant, An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); and Paul Gilroy, Small Acts: Thoughts...
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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
... intellectual production, and reminds us of the existential crises the region faces in the third decade of the twenty-first century. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Caribbean intellectual history black radical tradition Caribbean thought Caribbean studies History is the angel with whom all we Caribbean...
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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 (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. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Santo Domingo—delicately from 1844 and again in 1865, the Dominican Republic—has long been part of a geographic and human system. Under...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Brathwaite Caribbean thought Barbados Caribbean literature I was in Nevada on 4 February 2020 when I heard that Kamau Brathwaite had joined the ancestors. A couple of days previously, while in transit in Detroit, I had spoken to his wife Beverley, who confirmed that Kamau would accept the Bocas...
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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 (3 (66)): 116–126.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Brathwaite’s insights of how a psycho-poetics of thought shapes Caribbeanness. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Small Axe, Inc. 2021 diaspora freedom Black studies Caribbean studies Wherever he goes, the Negro remains a Negro. —Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks...
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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 (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
... scholars who have been granted the privilege to think and write from varying perspectives about the Caribbean condition, it is the paucity (until recently, with the multiplicity of government-driven “Vision” programs) of any reflection or consistent thought activity as to what the region might look like...