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The Beginning is the End and the End is the Beginning
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 147–158.
Published: 01 July 2023
... during the crisis. Further, the series hopes to examine the impact of ashfall on the terrestrial, coastal, and submarine environments, as well as the built environment. [email protected] © 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 La Soufrière St. Vincent and the Grenadines Caribbean volcanoes...
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“The Intuitive Lianas of My Hands”: Rebuilding Negritude as Embodied Ecopoetics
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 17–31.
Published: 01 November 2024
... landscape only to capture the destructive power of the elements manifested in the Caribbean’s volcanoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes. She then conjures the destruction of the islands by the plantation system, the ongoing exploitation of local workers, and the dream of reclaiming the land by the peasant...
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Deceptive Benevolence: Witnessing Whiteness in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
... duplicity remains hyper present. Dance on the Volcano anticipates the continued salience of White benevolence-cum-saviorism and the necessity of its unmasking. White saviorism and its rhetoric are not unique to Haiti but a fact of life in the Caribbean and global South writ large. Scholars have been eager...
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Edouard Glissant: The Poetics of Risk
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 102–107.
Published: 01 November 2011
... in the literary imagination of the
Caribbean. From the outset, Glissant was never inclined to write about himself or to see “the
writer” in heroic, visionary terms. As he states in Caribbean Discourse, “The author must
be demythified: certainly, because he must be integrated into a common resolve. The ‘we...
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Aimé Césaire: The Poet's Passion
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 119–123.
Published: 01 October 2008
... 1940 to 1943 and 1944, in a Martinique that was cut off from the world, occupied
by the sailors of Admiral Robert, the delegate of the Vichy regime, and surrounded by the
US fleet of the Caribbean and Atlantic. The poem was enriched by the resistance texts pub-
lished at that moment...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Merle Collins Small Axe Incorporated 2007 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Tout Moun ka Pléwé
(Everybody Bawling)
Merle Collins
The headlines for our stories down here in the Caribbean always...
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“A Question to Be Lived”: Creoleness and Ethnographic Fiction
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and reflect empiricist desires in literature, gesturing toward a fictional form that would connect with the Real in ways that earlier modes of Caribbean writing could not; and, finally, they become figural modes in fictional texts, informing the créolistes ’ senses of narrative and characterology. Copyright...
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Créolité and the Regime of Visibility: Reading Les neuf consciences du Malfini by Patrick Chamoiseau
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 115–125.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in another direction. In order to do away with this internalized exterior self-representation, the Éloge advocates that writers and artists set out to rediscover Martinican and Caribbean reality. It is thus not the optic mode per se that is questioned; the issue is rather what is in focus and valued...
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Beyond the Great Camouflage: Haiti in Suzanne Césaire's Politics and Poetics of Liberation
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
Published: 01 July 2016
... believed sound and expansive. He does not yet know that he is participating in the island's absence of equilibrium. But this sudden access to terrestrial madness illuminates his heart: he begins to think about the other Caribbean islands, their volcanoes, their earthquakes, their hurricanes”; Césaire...
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Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Mark Harris This essay asks how the soundscapes represented in Caribbean literature and music provide alternative paradigms for conceptualizing noise and silence. As American and European sound studies have drawn from the writings of John Cage, Murray Schafer, and Jacques Attali to articulate...
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Shake Keane's “Nonsense”: An Alternative Approach to Caribbean Folk Culture
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 71–92.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Philip Nanton Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Shake Keane’s “Nonsense”: An Alternative
Approach to Caribbean Folk Culture
Philip Nanton
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Two Healing Narratives: Suffering, Reintegration, and the Struggle of Language
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 61–79.
Published: 01 June 2006
... of struggle.
—Derek Walcott1
Following the devastating passage of Hurricane Ivan through the Caribbean in 2004, an
e-mail inquiry to the H-Net Network on Caribbean Studies regarding popular songs about
hurricanes was rebuffed as “displacing” and “crass” by outraged contributors. Readers...
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Rereading the Diminutive: Caribbean Chaos Theory in Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 20–36.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Jeannine Murray-Román In the early 1990s, chaos theory captured the imagination of Caribbean writers by offering a new approach to interpreting scientific data. In its analysis of Edouard Glissant's Poétique de la Relation alongside Antonio Benítez-Rojo's introduction to The Repeating Island...
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Daniel Maximin’s Lone Sun : Disrupting the Tides of History and Memory
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 69–84.
Published: 01 March 2022
... through its archival system and selective memory commodification. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 colonial archives francophone literature French Caribbean history memory Daniel Maximin In 2020 and 2021, protestors and activists in many parts...
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My Love Is Like a Rose: Terror, Territoire , and the Poetics of Marie Chauvet
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 40–51.
Published: 01 September 2005
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or because it has such a singular history; it is rare because there are few Caribbean
Awomen writers who have explored the workings of terror like Marie Chauvet. Th e
violent content of the work makes it diffi cult to read. Ronnie Scharfman describes the
text as “a nightmare that undermines rest...
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“Awful Pirates” and “Hordes of Jackals”: Santo Domingo/The Dominican Republic in Nineteenth-Century Historiography
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 80–94.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Anne Eller Historiography of the nineteenth-century Caribbean often holds Santo Domingo (later, the Dominican Republic) to be something of an anomaly. This essay reconsiders that scholarship in a Pan-Caribbean frame, demonstrating how such a characterization can lead to a number of distortions...
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Aimé Césaire’s Yugoslav Detour
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2023
... (French) and Vesna Hart (Croatian), Caribbean Quarterly 68, no. 2 (2022): 268–79. 12 Jovic Humphrey is one of the rare scholars to have probed deeper into the relationship between Césaire and Guberina. She analyzes the three existing prefaces to Césaire’s Notebook —Benjamin Péret’s, André...
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Soundscapes of Disaster and Humanitarianism: Survival Singing, Relief Telethons, and the Haiti Earthquake
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., between humanitarianism and culture in the Caribbean, and between the photojournalism of disaster and the musicology of the disaster telethon. Even as Haitians sang widely in response to the earthquake, the disaster telethon, in its visual depiction of the sufferers, did not broadcast Haitians singing...
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Madison Smartt Bell's Toussaint at the Crossroads: The Haitian Revolutionary between History and Fiction
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 194–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
... triumphs into the pocket
of his coat, though it was too large to fit.
“Captain,” Isaac said. “I did not take you for a thief. That is my father’s property.”
3. See Alfred N. Hunt, Haiti’s Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean (Baton Rouge:
Louisiana...
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In the Penumbra of the Antillean Hallucination
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 1–20.
Published: 01 July 2017
...; there would be fifteen more by the end of that December. 20 In 2009, there were twenty murders that occurred within the federation—fifteen in St. Kitts and five in Nevis. 21 The rates for murders, assaults, and rapes in St. Kitts and Nevis became some of the highest in the Caribbean, which itself has...
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