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Notes on Radical Hope; or, The Ethical Turn in Anthropology
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 186–198.
Published: 01 November 2021
... calls for more critical studies on what Haitians can teach us about the importance of hope in times of disaster, about the understanding of hope as a pervasive feeling. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Small Axe, Inc. 2021 radical hope Haiti postearthquake life and death...
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To the “Sons” of Dessalines and of Pétion: Radicalism and the Idea of a “New” Haiti
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 164–172.
Published: 01 November 2011
... in the transformation of Haitian society. This idea of a “new” Haiti, which is rooted in nineteenth- and twentieth-century independence struggles and political and economic challenges, resounds in the current postearthquake era. © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 To the “Sons” of Dessalines
and of Pétion: Radicalism...
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Sympathetic Graffiti in Haiti: Jerry's Murals as a Scene of Pedagogical Curiosity
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 22–43.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Chelsey L. Kivland Since 2010, “Jerry” has become Haiti's most prominent graffiti artist. Dealing with the most sensitive issues of the day—disaster, insecurity, illiteracy, aid dependency, corruption, and poverty—he has canvassed Port-au-Prince and other cities with murals that invite compassion...
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Expectations of Catastrophe: Mario Benjamin, Commissions, and Countercontext
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 227–243.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... Aujourd'hui Le Maroc , for example, in an apparent review of the exhibition, printed only one image, not of the show, the event, or any of the artworks involved but of a street in one of Haiti's urban centers devastated by the earthquake. 46 The show's postearthquake context was acknowledged by its...
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In the Presence of the Past: An Afterword on Red and Black in Haiti
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 173–187.
Published: 01 November 2011
... | In the Presence of the Past: An Afterword on Red and Black in Haiti
Haitians are enduring seems galaxies away from anything the country has ever experienced,
the political slogans powerfully connect postearthquake Haiti with the past, by reminding us
that a highly politicized population...
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Occupying the Center: Haitian Girlhood and Wake Work
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 140–150.
Published: 01 November 2018
...—that is subsequently normalized. That the photograph is from the “archives of disaster” (51) created in the aftermath of the earthquake also reinforces narratives of catastrophe and abjection about Haiti. Referencing how these narratives circulate, Sharpe mentions an article from the New York Times by David...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2014
... movement and the man who was, for a time, its most prominent symbol. Still, reparations are connected to the crisis of occupation in postcoup and postearthquake Haiti, and the situation of Haitian migrant workers and their descendants in the Dominican Republic. Instrumentalizing ancestors as relevant...
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Ordinary Sovereignty
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 152–165.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., for the inspiration, the model, and the duty. 1 Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “The Odd and the Ordinary: Haiti, the Caribbean, and the World,” Cimarrón: New Perspectives on the Caribbean 2, no. 3 (1990): 11, 3, 4. 2 Ibid., 5. 3 On postearthquake representations, see Sibylle Fischer, “Haiti...
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Theory versus Practice: On the Postcolonial Marginalization of Haitian Literature
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Rachel Douglas This review engages with fundamental questions regarding postcolonial canon formation and the marginalization of the Haitian Spiralist writers, the theory-centrism of postcolonial criticism, and “showing” versus “telling”—issues raised by Kaiama L. Glover's Haiti Unbound . Using...
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Michel-Rolph Trouillot's State Against Nation : A Critique of the Totalitarian Paradigm
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 203–212.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the neoliberal program that has guided Haiti's economy from the late 1960s to the current postearthquake catastrophe of 2012. Trouillot himself points out that the neoliberalism that became the leitmotif of Jean-Claude Duvalier's Jean-Claudiste ideology was François Duvalier's own project: The economic basis...
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The Myth of the Monolingual Haitian Reader: Linguistic Rights and Choices in the Haitian Literary Context
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 52–63.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Nadève Ménard French is usually referred to as an elite language in the context of Haiti. By contrast, Haitian Creole is acknowledged as the language of the people. In this essay, Nadève Ménard argues that it is crucial to move beyond this simplistic paradigm. While the Caribbean is generally...
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Translation in the Caribbean, the Caribbean in Translation
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., Denver, Colorado, 2010). See also Robert Munro, “Crowdsourcing and the Crisis-Affected Community: Lessons Learned and Looking Forward from Mission 4636,” Journal of Information Retrieval 16, no. 2 (2013): 210–66. 21 For a discussion on postearthquake intervention in Haiti and issues of “disaster...
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Germaine, Evangeline, and Other “Negro Girls”: Rudy Burckhardt's Caribbean
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., and the elegant
gestures of a white supremacy that nevertheless demeans both its “negro girls” and its other
black subjects. From the vantage point of postearthquake Port-au-Prince, Burckhardt’s Haiti
could be taken up as a nostalgic swoon over the discovery of a lost archive of a lost city, of a
postcard...
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Beyond Fugitive Speech: Rumor and Affect in Caribbean History
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 123–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
... violence, the lougawou rumors, and the chupacabras stories. 28 For more on the postearthquake lougawou rumors, see Alcimines, “The Loup-Garou Problem in Haiti,” Livejournal , 27 January 2010, alcimines.livejournal.com/146454.html ; Matthew Bigg and Joseph Guyler Delva, “Haiti Quakes Raises...
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Rupert Gray's Vulnerability … and Ours
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 71–83.
Published: 01 March 2013
... by Uruguayan peacekeeping forces in the southern region of Port Salut, the story seemed to exemplify the extent to which postearthquake Haiti is overrun by do-gooders who pose a danger to the body politic, but it also reinforced a connection between outside intervention and dishonor. 6 Matthew Russell Lee...
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An Excerpt of Marie Léticée’s Camille’s Lakou , with a Translator’s Note
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 171–187.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in postearthquake Haiti: Charlene Désir, “Diasporic Lakou: A Haitian Academic Explores Her Path to Haiti Pre- and Post-earthquake,” Harvard Educational Review 81, no. 2 (2011): 278–95. For further reflection on how Désir’s work on the diasporic lakou contributes to a broad cross-cultural framework of African...
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Transnational Migration, the State, and Development: Reflecting on the “Diaspora Option”
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 154–171.
Published: 01 July 2013
... trade zones, the financing of ministry-run initiatives by the international nongovernmental organization sector, or in the more extreme example of the remarkable admission by Prime Minister Max Bellerive in the postearthquake period, in response to allegations that Haiti had surrendered its sovereignty...
