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in At the Crossroads of Many Worlds: Marilyn Houlberg and Arts Patronage in Haiti
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
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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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Grace L. Sanders Johnson This essay tells the story of Estrea Jean Gilles, a nineteen-year-old girl who was killed by Marines during the US occupation of Haiti (1915–34). With the crash described as an “unavoidable” accident and the documents cataloged under “miscellaneous,” Estrea’s archived life...
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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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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Fatoumata Seck This essay explores the early work of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain in Congo. Despite Comhaire-Sylvain being renowned as Haiti’s first woman anthropologist, her life and extensive scholar-ship in Africa have been largely overlooked. Given her unique positionality and formal training...
View articletitled, From <span class="search-highlight">Haiti</span> to Congo: Colonial Fault Lines in the Life and Work of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain
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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...
View articletitled, Regionalism, Imperialism, and Sovereignty: West Indies Federation and the Occupation of <span class="search-highlight">Haiti</span>
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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. Copyright ©...
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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...
View articletitled, Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and “Failed” Nations: <span class="search-highlight">Haiti</span> and Jewish Refugees in the 1930s
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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...
View articletitled, The Sway of Stigma: The Politics and Poetics of AIDS Representation in Le président a-t-il le SIDA? and Spirit of <span class="search-highlight">Haiti</span>
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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...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 155–163.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Michael Deibert Engaging Matthew J. Smith's recent book Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957 , Deibert argues that Smith covers a pivotal and heretofore largely ignored two-decade period in the nation's development. Deibert shows that the battle to form...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 164–172.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Millery Polyné This article examines the benefits and limitations of radicalism in Haiti during the post–US occupation period—1934–57. This critical and underexplored period, which Matthew J. Smith examines in his Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 173–187.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Matthew J. Smith In this essay Matthew J. Smith revisits the central arguments made in Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957 and explains their relevance in understanding Haiti's political course since the Duvalier era. He responds to the essays of Millery...
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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 (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...
View articletitled, Diasporic Disciplining of Caliban? <span class="search-highlight">Haiti</span>, the Dominican Republic, and Intra-Caribbean Politics
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... occupation. 2 One of Haiti's most significant and mystifying writers, Chauvet has long been placed at a remove from her well-canonized predecessors and contemporaries. Though increasingly a subject of interest for scholars of Haitian women's literature and of Haitian feminism, Chauvet's work is only very...
View articletitled, “Black” Radicalism in <span class="search-highlight">Haiti</span> and the Disorderly Feminine: The Case of Marie Vieux Chauvet
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