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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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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
...-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 to critique White saviorism discourse in North Atlantic media following disasters in the Caribbean, and yet we lack...
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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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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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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 (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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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 115–125.
Published: 01 March 2018
... in another direction. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2016 creole identity francophone Caribbean narrative perspective animal studies ecopoetics Language has always been a central issue for critics of Éloge de la créolité . 1 Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant...
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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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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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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 WEEK FOUR Kaiso Calypso Mauby Maw-beer...
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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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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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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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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 40–51.
Published: 01 September 2005
... 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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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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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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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2023
... could no longer understand. Whereas Martinican Creole has moved beyond this need for “camouflage,” it remains marked by it. Other examples of detour include syncretic religions, marronage, and emigration. It is only after they arrive in France that people from the Caribbean realize that they are deemed...
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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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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 1–20.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of the Emotions Oualie, Nieves , or Nevis is a conical protuberance on the spine of the Caribbean Plate. It moves in a crescent of shifting and uneasy federations with St. Christopher, Anguilla, Barbuda, Antigua, Montserrat, and the other islands of the “Lesser Antilles.” It was a last refuge...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 35–62.
Published: 01 November 2013
... all point toward vibrant prospects for essayistic fiction in the Caribbean and represent a productive appropriation and transformation of what is often considered a deeply rooted European form. 35 Ibid., 884. 36 Deleuze and Guattari explain, “Un rhizome comme tige souterraine se distingue...