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Against “Cultures of Hiatus”: History and the Archive in the Political Thought of John La Rose
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 39–54.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Chris Moffat This essay examines the relationship between a radical politics and the institution of the archive through a history of the George Padmore Institute (GPI), a community archive attached to New Beacon Books in London. Focusing on the life and thought of John La Rose (1927–2006...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2004
....
—Elsa Goveia
hen Andrew Salkey, John La Rose, and Samuel Selvon traveled together from
London to Georgetown in February 1970 to attend the Caribbean Writers and
Artists Conference, there seemed about their journey a disquieting ambivalence.
WOr anyway Salkey’s account...
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The Jamaican 1970s and Its Influence on the Making of Black Britain
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... might be cautious about figures, the black Caribbean and African proportion of the population is something in the region of 3 percent). 3 Interestingly, John La Rose regarded black Britons as having turned their supposed “minority” status on its head by way of becoming some sort of cultural/political...
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Not a Usual Man
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 108–110.
Published: 01 March 2022
... say that I knew him well, but I immediately take comfort in the fact that few people of my acquaintance seemed to have known him well. His dear friends and supporters from his days in England, John La Rose and Sarah White of New Beacon Books; Jessica Huntley of Bogle L’Ouverture; Anne Walmsley; and my...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2021
... fortune to meet with the remarkable John La Rose at his home in Finsbury Park, London, not far from the legendary New Beacon Books, but he was already unwell and, alas, he would pass away in February 2006 before I could arrange a more prolonged discussion. And so I do not know the story of CAM in exactly...
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Redefining Mestizaje : How Trans-Caribbean Exchanges Solidified Black Consciousness in Cuba
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of Peoples.” Prominent Caribbean intellectuals attending included John La Rose (Trinidad and Tobago), Andrew Salkey (Jamaica), C. L. R. James (Trinidad and Tobago), and Aimé Césaire (Martinique). Many of these men arrived a week early and stayed after the conference to get a better sense of the changes...
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Beyond Francophonie: Contextualizing Éloge de la créolité
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 199–210.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the anglophone Caribbean was moving rapidly into more and more wide-spread independence) by three men of different Caribbean origins living in London—poet Edward (Kamau) Brathwaite from Barbados, activist publisher John La Rose from Trinidad, and journalist/radio broadcaster Andrew Salkey from Jamaica. From...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): vii–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of the Caribbean Artists Movement, initiated in Britain in the mid-
1960s (the first of its meetings was held on 10 March 1967) largely through the creative and
organizational energies of Kamau Brathwaite (poet, historian, and critic), John La Rose (poet
and publisher), and Andrew Salkey (novelist...
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A Literary Friendship: Selected Notes on the Correspondence with Kamau Brathwaite
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 124–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... had recently been formed by Kamau, John La Rose, and Andrew Salkey, as a gathering of poets, novelists, painters, sculptors, intellectuals, other people interested in Caribbean letters, and musicians, most of whom were either permanently resident in England or were like Kamau, Patterson, and me, doing...
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Widening Horizons
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
... founded in London in the 1960s by Brathwaite and others such as Andrew Salkey and John La Rose. 13 The article provided an exposition on Kumina, a little-known African-derived religious practice, and also demonstrated the leadership role of women in such a cultural domain. 14 Later, further...
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Kamau Brathwaite, a Memoir: The Road to and from New York City
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
Published: 01 March 2022
... at the University of the West Indies’ Extra Mural Department in St. Lucia, moving in 1963 to the History Department at UWI’s flagship Mona campus. Two years later, he returned to England to do a history doctorate at the University of Sussex (1965–68). These became dramatic years. In 1966, in London, Kamau, John La...
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Julián del Casal
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 131–154.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Gasset’s critique of Proust in “Le teps, la distance et la forme chez Proust,” in Les Cahiers de Marcel Proust I: Hommage à Marcel Proust (Paris: Gallimard, 1927), 296. See Cruz-Malavé, “Julián del Casal,” n20. 6 Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound , trans. James Scully and C. John Herington (Oxford...
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Deceptive Benevolence: Witnessing Whiteness in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
... anxiety, this moment involved increasingly “racially discriminatory legislation and unprecedented brutality towards slaves.” 11 Indeed, in an attempt to consolidate local colonial power, John Garrigus argues, Creoles crafted a new colonial identity based on “white purity,” specifically by restricting...
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Césaire Reads Toussaint Louverture: The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Departmentalization
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2011
...John Patrick Walsh © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 This article argues that Césaire’s essay, Toussaint Louverture: La Révolution française et le problème colonial brings the Haitian Revolution into contact with the departmentalization of the French Caribbean. Situated between the epic Cahier...
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Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the “Routes” to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 28–58.
Published: 01 February 2006
... John La Rose, that Cuba under Castro has achieved racial equality, in a manner reminiscent of Venezuela s own claims of racial parity: nothing absolutely white on two legs in Cuba . . . Don t you know the Cuban boast? Cuba s mulatto country In addition to his own optimism, Salkey says that he...
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Re-membering Défilée: Dédée Bazile as Revolutionary Lieu de Mémoire
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 57–85.
Published: 01 September 2005
... recently translated by
Christopher Bongie. Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargall, trans. Christopher Bongie (New York: Broadview Press, 2004);
John Greenleaf Whittier, “Toussaint Louverture” (1833), in Selected Poems, ed. Brenda Wineapple (New York:
Th e Library of America, 2004...
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Tasks without Solutions: Why Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams Matters to Translation Culture and Caribbean Poetics
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... , trans. Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokurov (New York: Pantheon, 1997), 27–28. 19 Ibid., 27–28. This passage is footnoted by Chamoiseau; in the note, he gives the citations for his Maman Dlo contre la fée Carabosse: Théâtre-conte (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1982). 20 Erich Auerbach, Mimesis...
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Dark Horse Poetics: Lévi-Strauss, Benítez-Rojo, and Caribbean Epistemology
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Rose Réjouis This article argues that the concept of bricolage in the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss is part of a greater poetics, an underdog or “dark horse” poetics that advocates for “the culture of the weak” and embodies an activist historiography. This reexamination of Lévi-Strauss's work...
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Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 30–54.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Enz, Yale French Studies , no. 107 (2005): 131–45; Jacques de Cauna, ed., Mémoires du Général Toussaint-Louverture commentés par Saint-Rémy (Guitalens-L’Albarède: La Girandole, 2009); Daniel Desormeaux, ed., Mémoires du général Toussaint Louverture (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011); John Patrick...
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Nation, Race, and Performance in the Poetics of Nicolás Guillén and Nancy Morejón
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 125–141.
Published: 01 July 2021
...: A Guide to Recent Scholarship,” Latin American Research Review 23, no. 1 (1988): 110–22; John Patrick Leary, “Havana Reads the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Nicolás Guillén, and the Dialectics of Transnational American Literature,” Comparative Literature Studies 47, no. 2 (2010): 133–58; Edward...
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