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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 9 Myrlande Constant, Haiti madi 12 janvye 2010 (Haiti, Tuesday 12 January 2010), 2012. Fabric, beads, sequins; 239 × 249 cm. The Fowler Museum at UCLA, X2013.35.1. Photograph by Don Cole. Courtesy of the Fowler Museum More
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 61–68.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Raphael Dalleo Examining the West Indies Federation during the twentieth century against the backdrop of the US occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934 shows the complex roots of decolonization and helps us understand the occupation as a foundational event for the twentieth-century Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 44–52.
Published: 01 March 2020
... (1857), a romantic novella about the conquest of Puerto Rico, and “A Cuba Libre” (1871), a biographical essay about Haiti’s first president, Alexandre Pétion, the author explores Betances’s vision of Caribbean unity and its connections to race, gender, republicanism, and decolonization. Although he...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 78–95.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Greg Beckett Set against the backdrop of soaring inflation, rolling blackouts, fuel riots, roadblocks, and antigovernment protests, this essay explores a new language of political crisis in Haiti that draws on the concept of unlivable life. In so doing, it seeks to directly connect political...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Nadège Veldwachter Using the field of humanitarianism as the critical locus, this essay reflects on what Haiti, called the “Republic of NGOs,” can teach us about unsettling the coloniality of being, power, and freedom if we acknowledge in our critical thought system the acts of humanitarianism...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 60–78.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Figure 9 Myrlande Constant, Haiti madi 12 janvye 2010 (Haiti, Tuesday 12 January 2010), 2012. Fabric, beads, sequins; 239 × 249 cm. The Fowler Museum at UCLA, X2013.35.1. Photograph by Don Cole. Courtesy of the Fowler Museum ...
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 2 Ceremony at Le Péristyle de Mariani, Haiti, 1985. Photograph by Marilyn Houlberg. EEPA 2012-004-0819 More
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 3 Artist Yves Telemak with drapo for Loco, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, ca. 1993. Photograph by Marilyn Houlberg. EEPA 2012-004-1022. More
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 4 Yves Telemak, drapo for La Sirene Diamant, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1998. Photograph by Marilyn Houlberg. EEPA 2012-004-2553 More
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 8 Pierrot Barra with mixed media sculpture of Ogun, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1998. Photograph by Marilyn Houlberg. EEPA 2012-004-2528 More
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 163–176.
Published: 01 June 2007
...: Pantheon, 2004, ISBN: 037542282X Haitian Novels and Novels of Haiti: History, Haitian Writing, and Madison Smartt Bell’s Trilogy Martin Munro Ab s t r a c t : This essay reads Madison Smartt Bell’s Haitian trilogy in the context of contemporary Haitian literature, and considers...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 149–159.
Published: 01 June 2008
... of Caliban? Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Intra-Caribbean Politics Jana Evans Braziel Ab s t r a c t : In her contribution, Braziel resists Torres-Saillant’s valorization of diaspora as the anti- dote to national paradigms. As an organizing rubric, “Caribbean diaspora” obscures...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... would argue, was born not of an irrational or disproportionate fear, as Claude-Narcisse's use of the term phobia might suggest, but of a reasoned perspective on the state of community—at least of the communities on offer—in postoccupation Haiti. I am suggesting, then, that Chauvet's reticence to join...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 55–71.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Matthew J. Smith This essay revisits the central arguments made in Red and Black in Haiti and explains their relevance in understanding Haiti's political course since the Duvalier era. The essay responds to ones by Millery Polyné and Michael Deibert 1 and addresses some of the comments made...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
...David Scott This essay inquires into the uses of Haiti and its revolution as emblematic for contemporary theory. It raises a question about the new “philosophic” construction of Haiti—and its revolution—as an originary or exemplary moment of “human rights,” less to impugn universality as such than...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 162–177.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Chris Bongie This essay provides an overview of Colin Dayan's work that attends, specifically, to her representations of slave law in Haiti, History, and the Gods and The Law Is a White Dog . It takes as its point of departure Dayan's indictment in the final chapter of Haiti, History, and the Gods...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
Published: 01 July 2016
.... A close reading of her essays alongside previously uncited personal correspondence reveals Haiti to be central to her vision for a Caribbean cultural renaissance after the death and destruction of the war. Suzanne Césaire's politics and poetics of liberation took on a more Caribbean outlook...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 62–79.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Régine Michelle Jean-Charles This essay explores the poetics and the politics of AIDS representation in the Haitian context through an examination of Arnold Antonin's film Le president a-t-il le SIDA? ( Does the President Have AIDS? ; 2006) and Myriam J. A. Chancy's novel Spirit of Haiti (2003...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 135–141.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Leah Gordon Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Kanaval a people’s history of haiti Leah Gordon Fantom (Ghost) small axe 33 • November 2010 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-2010-028 © Leah Gordon Kouvre fey (Lanse kòd group called Curfew) 138  |  Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Donald Cosentino A description and analysis of the symbiotic relationship between Vodou-inspired arts and the political, economic, and social calamities that have enveloped Haiti in the last half-century, from the Duvalier dictatorships to the recent election of Michel (“Sweet Micky”) Martelly...