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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 52–63.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., and monolingual. Further, defining the authentic Haitian as monolingual essentially perpetuates the denial of linguistic rights for the majority of the Haitian population. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Haiti Haitian literature Haitian linguistic situation monolingual Haitians Haitian readers While...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 99–110.
Published: 01 November 2010
... production and consider alternative responses to the issues of belonging and cultural identity evoked in the manifesto. I note in particular the absence of Haitian Spiralist writers Frankétienne and Jean-Claude Fignolé from the list of signatories, arguing that the non-inclusion of these authors strikingly...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2015
... such as Caribbean Creoles is often dangerously lacking, but assistance can increasingly be provided via the application of new translation technologies and practices. 20 The Haitian earthquake reveals the risks of external intervention in situations where local knowledge—in this case, linguistic—is not only...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 58–70.
Published: 01 October 2008
...: the spiral and quantum writing . ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 Haitian Revolutions in Literature:
The Case of Linguistic and Visual
Inventiveness in Frankétienne
Rachel Douglas
Ab s t r a c t : This article argues that there is a conspicuous lack...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 132–154.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the Past , with a new foreword by Hazel V. Carby. On Haitian Creole, see also Albert Valdman, “The Linguistic Situation of Haiti,” in Charles Robert Foster and Albert Valdman, eds., Haiti Today and Tomorrow: An Interdisciplinary Study (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984), 77–99. 7 See...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
... competition—cockfighting—over the island reflective of nationalist historiography, 3 Eugenio Matibag’s Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint: Nation, Race, and State in Hispaniola situates Dominican nation-state formation and the Haitian other within a contrapunctal Pan-island framework. Matibag argues...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., and her adherences to but also reservations about the dominant discourses and counterdiscourses of her time. Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain should be read as the pioneering anthropologist, linguist, early Haitian feminist, folklorist, and Africanist she was, as evident from both her published scholarship...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., for the black, and for the other to coexist. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 disidentification anti-Haitianism Latinidad Latina/o performance Dominicanidad In thinking through José E. Muñoz's influence on hispanophone Caribbean studies, I am immediately brought to a moment we shared at a brunch prior...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... This situation of imperial tutelage is precisely where Haiti now finds itself. The 2004 coup was followed by military occupation under the direction of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). The Haitian National Police and MINUSTAH have suppressed Haiti's popular democratic movement. 12 In the wake...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 18–36.
Published: 01 March 2016
... a chance to become president when Boyer fell but did not capitalize on the moment, leaving Rivière's path free to assume the presidency. No doubt easy for the Haitians of the day to decode, this song is of its moment: a response to a specific political situation in a period of heightened censorship...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 189–201.
Published: 01 September 2005
... literature.
It was necessary for Haitian authors to take a look at themselves because there was
a strange situation in that behind all this historical literature, there was a backdrop of
Romantic and French literature. Th ere was Jules Solime Milscent,³ who wrote a lot...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 208–219.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., or even atomized, regularly divided in geographic terms or according linguistic or European colonial boundaries. Freedom’s Mirror exposes how profoundly the history of the Haitian Revolution shaped the nature of nineteenth-century Cuban slave society, in ways more political, more cultural, and more...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 39–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
... written that Danticat’s narratives are “monuments
to life, resistance, and survival,” transnational sites of memory in which Haitians at home and
in the dyaspora can remain hopeful for a country that, despite its desperate social situation
and the extremely negative media...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 24–39.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Marie-Agnès Sourieau Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Dessalines in Historic Drama and Haitian
Contemporary Reality
Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Qui donc ira jeter des fl eurs
Au Pont Rouge
A Vertières
Au Champ de Mars
Les off randes coulées dans la honte
Blessent...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 199–207.
Published: 01 November 2012
... on a concomitant notion of the Haitian people's endless capacity for suffering. Furthering the trope of Haitian resilience, this narrative functions in tandem with that of Haitian barbarism, situating the country and its populace in a space—a state?—of exception; it subtly disables true empathy, so allowing...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 160–165.
Published: 01 November 2021
... In the case of “Speech at the Masonic Lodge of Port-au-Prince,” he translated the Cuban struggle for abolition and independence as a relationship of equivalence with the history of Haiti, situating the Haitian people—or to be more precise, the nation’s political elite—as enlightened subjects of liberation who...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., the
suppression of the impact of the Haitian Revolution from historical memory was also
accompanied by a proliferation of negative reports in the Western press. Disparaging
accounts by nineteenth-century European and North American observers, travelers, and
diplomats portrayed the black republic as a land...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 142–150.
Published: 01 October 2008
... ethnically diverse
black diasporic communities while traversing generation lines through the assistance of first-
generation Haitians whose knowledge of and connection to Haiti is not limited to Vodou.
One of the striking aspects of Continental Shifts is that it situates Duval...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
...
the Etonnants voyageurs roster of Haitian stars. These same Haitian writers were called on to
act as extra-literary mediators and mediagenic intelligent commentators for Haiti in numerous
French newspapers at the beginning of 2010. This situation really exposed, I would argue,
how French...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
... powers to the Haitian situation. Haitian exceptionalism functions to obscure Haiti's integration into a world dominated by Christianity, capitalism, and whiteness. The more Haiti appears weird, the easier it is to forget that it represents the longest neocolonial experiment in the history of the West...
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