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Pointe Des Chateaux, Guadeloupe
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 March 2003
... CHATEAUX, GUADELOUPE
(for Frantz and Dany Quillen)
Here at the lip of the Atlantic
where the huge cross rises—
waves are also like islands
coming forward—
thebathers’ rhythm
with surf lashing the rock’s coral
or volcanic formation.
Walking along, I consider
other islands, streets...
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Women in the Whirlwind: Withholding Guadeloupe's Archipelagic History
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 143–165.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Claire Tancons This article takes the 1928 Atlantic hurricane, remembered in Guadeloupe as le grand cyclone 28 , as the starting point for a selective genealogy of Guadeloupean women in times of catastrophe, following Melissa Harris-Perry's study of women and citizenship during Hurricane Katrina...
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The Politics of Disjuncture, or Freedom from a Caribbean Point of View
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 184–192.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Greg Beckett This essay offers a critical discussion of Yarimar Bonilla's Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015). It argues that Bonilla's account of labor politics in the French Department of Guadeloupe provides us with new ways of thinking about...
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The Caribbean Scorpion: The Saint-Barthélemy Archive and Swedish Colonial Amnesia
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 53–66.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Saint-Barthélemy was realized shortly after Sweden had taken over the island. Sweden subsequently made several attempts to enlarge its holdings in the archipelago, the best-known episode being the brief Swedish possession of Guadeloupe during the endgame of the Napoleonic Wars. 34 It was not for lack...
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Ciné woulé, ciné en progrès : An Investigation of the Francophone Caribbean Film Circuit, 1968–2010
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 45–68.
Published: 01 November 2010
... examines in detail the development of cultural initiatives in Martinique, Guadeloupe and Haiti, followed by recent regional and international events featuring Francophone Caribbean films. The last section of this paper considers three individual filmmakers who have had a verifiable impact on film culture...
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World Literature in French: A Caribbean Design?
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 89–98.
Published: 01 November 2010
.... Hailing from across the Caribbean region (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti) but now living and working in western metropolitan centers (New York, Montreal, Paris), Maryse Condé, Edouard Glissant, Danny Laferrière, Lyonel Trouillot and Gary Victor all straddle and travel the “spaces” of contact between...
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Edouard Glissant and the Art of Memory
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 25–36.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of slavery, 2004 was the 200 th anniversary of the Haitian Declaration of Independence and 2006 marked 60 years since Martinique and Guadeloupe became part of metropolitan France as overseas departments. French Caribbean writers have been vital to the public activities associated with remembrance of slavery...
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Everything Slackens in a Wreck
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Sinnapah Mary (Guadeloupe). Each of the four women is a descendant of indentured workers who traveled to the Caribbean in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and for each this history is a reference point in her practice. Gosine proposes a consideration of the Americas as a consequence...
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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
... of the world brought attention to the ever-present power of colonialism by toppling or defacing monuments commemorating colonial political and military figures. In the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, demonstrators toppled statues of three individuals that to them proved representative...
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Maryse Condé: Practitioner of Littérature-monde
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 78–88.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of literature.
The ideas of littérature-monde fit well with recent theories in francophone postcolonial
studies, which emphasize the limitations of concepts that continue to lock ex-colonies into an
unequal relationship with their former colonizers. In the case of Condé’s native Guadeloupe...
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All Creoles Now? Béké Identity and Éloge de la créolité
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 220–232.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., less neutral, reference to the béké is a somewhat defensive allusion to Saint-John Perse. Although the Nobel Prize–winning poet is consecrated as “l'un des fils les plus prestigieux de la Guadeloupe,” the subsequent caveat, “et cela malgré son appartenance à l'ethnoclasse béké,” suggests the uneasy...
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The Work of Disappointment
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 193–200.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of the scholarship that robustly examines Guadeloupe and Martinique. Still, in comparison to other parts of the Caribbean, the French departments remain underexplored. 2 Yarimar Bonilla, Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press...
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Between Plot and Plantation, Trespass and Transgression: Caribbean Migratory Disobedience in Fiction and Internet Traffic
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 23–42.
Published: 01 July 2012
... are written out of discourse. 18 Veronica is a product of the material history of the French Caribbean (Guadeloupe in particular), spaces that produced and grappled with Negritude and Glissant's Antillanité but are also deeply imbedded in the contradictions of French citizenship. 19 In refusing...
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Contributors
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 208–210.
Published: 01 November 2012
... widespread visibility to artists.
He lives in New York and in Guadeloupe.
Alessandra Benedicty is an assistant professor of Caribbean and francophone literatures in the
DivisionNewJournal York ofof (CUNY). HaitianInterdisciplinary StudiesShe has, andpublishedStudies Studies at inthe...
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Contributors
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 188–191.
Published: 01 November 2011
... 2011 Contributors
Thierry Alet (whose work appears on the cover of this issue) was born in Guadeloupe. He has
exhibited paintings and drawings in group and solo shows in New York, Paris, and Havana;
in Guadeloupe and Martinique; and elsewhere around the world. His latest work includes...
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Contributors
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 186–189.
Published: 01 November 2009
... Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Contributors
Stéphanie Bérard is assistant professor in the Department of French Language and Literature
at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Her research deals with francophone and creolo-
phone Caribbean theater from Guadeloupe and Martinique. She...
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Freedom, Sovereignty, and Other Entanglements
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 201–208.
Published: 01 July 2017
... political thought. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 freedom Caribbean Guadeloupe It is an honor and a pleasure to have my work discussed in this forum, in no short measure because the preoccupations that gave shape to Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment...
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Ordinary Sovereignty
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 152–165.
Published: 01 November 2013
...—not as transcendental principles—but as localized fictions that don the mask of transcendence. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 54 Fred Constant, “French Republicanism under Challenge: White Minority (Béké) Power in Martinique and Guadeloupe,” in Howard Johnson and Karl Watson, eds., The White Minority...
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Eulogizing Creoleness? Éloge de la créolité and Caribbean Identity, Culture, and Politics
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... The special section is therefore a timely intervention in the study of francophone Caribbean literature and thought, and not only because of the anniversary of the Éloge : the present marks something of a hiatus in the literary history of Martinique and Guadeloupe. Previously understood broadly...
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Caribbean Man in Space and Time
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2021
...: Institute of Jamaica, 1935). 29 Lenis Blanche, Contribution a l’histoire de la presse à la Guadeloupe (Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe: Imprimerie Catholique, 1935). 30 See, among others, Bascom (1950), Metraux (1959), Simpson (1965/1970), Moore (1953), Herskovits (1937, 1941, 1947, 1954), Barrett...
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