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Kamau Brathwaite, a Memoir: The Road to and from New York City

Timothy J. Reiss
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724121
Published: 01 March 2022
...Timothy J. Reiss This essay tracks Kamau Brathwaite’s life, his poetic and critical writing, and his travails and thinking, from youth and early career—in Barbados, England, Ghana, and the Caribbean, but mainly from his arrival at New York University in 1991—through his retirement in 2013...
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A Literary Friendship: Selected Notes on the Correspondence with Kamau Brathwaite

Gordon Rohlehr
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 124–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724135
Published: 01 March 2022
...Gordon Rohlehr This essay, an extract from a longer two-hundred-page manuscript, traces the author’s literary friendship with Kamau Brathwaite from their first meeting in 1968 to Brathwaite’s passing in 2020. It relies on correspondence over fifty years, memories of meetings, and critical responses...
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Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow

Mark Harris
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384184
Published: 01 July 2021
... alternative practices of listening and soundmaking, they have marginalized black experience. Caribbean noise, formed out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, has been excluded from informing those alternative practices. The depths of sonic experience revealed by soundscapes of Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry...
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Front and back covers of Edward [<span class="search-highlight">Kamau</span>] <span class="search-highlight">Brathwaite’s</span> spoken word albums Ma...

Front and back covers of Edward [Kamau] Brathwaite’s spoken word albums Ma...

in Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow > Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2021
Figures 2 and 3 Front and back covers of Edward [Kamau] Brathwaite’s spoken word albums Masks , 1968 (Argo, London, Mono PLP 1183), and Islands , 1973 (Argo, London, PLP 1184/5). Photographs by Mathieu Bonnefont More
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The Importance of Being (In)Authentic

Belinda Edmondson
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 254–262.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10899260
Published: 01 November 2023
... to the present. It puts into conversation related progressive concepts of Creole, such as Kamau Brathwaite’s formulation of nation language, with early racist ventriloquist Creole narratives by White creoles in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It does so as a way of disentangling what we mean when we...
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Not a Usual Man

Lorna Goodison
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 108–110.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724107
Published: 01 March 2022
...Lorna Goodison This essay takes the form of a brief tribute to the life and work of Kamau Brathwaite and his first wife, Doris Brathwaite. It is written from the point of view of a writer who knew Kamau personally and who considers herself to be the beneficiary of his immense wisdom and iconoclasm...
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Kamau at Ninety

Aaron Kamugisha
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724093
Published: 01 March 2022
...Aaron Kamugisha This introduction opens a special section featuring a series of tributes in homage to Kamau Brathwaite. The author’s generational perspective becomes the occasion for a reflection on Brathwaite’s legacy, creative voice, and sustained vision of the future of the Caribbean. The essay...
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The Questions Kamau Asked of Us

Elaine Savory
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 145–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724149
Published: 01 March 2022
...Elaine Savory Kamau Brathwaite left us just before COVID-19 changed our world. This memoriam essay explores the questions his work poses in his role as mentor/teacher/Griot to other writers, toward whom he was always very generous and encouraging. He asks us to embrace uncertainty, making...
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Caribbean Studies in Digital Space and Time

Kelly Baker Josephs
Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 105–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583446
Published: 01 November 2021
...Kelly Baker Josephs This essay is part of a special section on Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” (reprinted in the issue), briefly tracing the dissemination history of Brathwaite’s essay, then focusing on two main lines of argument in it to explore...
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The Politics of Style in “Caribbean Man in Space and Time”

Nadi Edwards
Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583474
Published: 01 November 2021
...Nadi Edwards This essay reads Kamau Brathwaite’s seminal 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” in terms of its rhetorical politics. Conceptually, the essay’s hybrid and heterogeneous discourses and registers are theorized in terms drawn from Clifford Geertz, Leah Rosenberg, and Mandy...
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Black Caribs / Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness

Paul Joseph López Oro
Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583488
Published: 01 November 2021
...Paul Joseph López Oro This essay uses Kamau Brathwaite’s conceptualizations of the “inner plantation” and “neglected Maroons” in his field-making 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” to meditate on the multiple meanings of home within Garifuna political subjectivity. St. Vincent holds...
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On the Question of Caribbean Studies

David Scott
Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 1–7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323283
Published: 01 July 2013
... briefly refers to two generative moments in the history of Caribbean studies: one in the 1950s framed around M. G. Smith's A Framework for Caribbean Studies and another in the 1970s framed around Kamau Brathwaite's “Caribbean Man in Space and Time.” The point in considering these moments in the figuring...
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Lamentin

kamau brathwaite
Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1443313
Published: 01 November 2011
...kamau brathwaite © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 Edouard Glissant Remembering 100  |  Remembering Edouard Glissant Edouard Glissant, Saint-Malo, France, 31 May 2009. Photograph by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images. 36 • November 2011...
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Writing Caribbean Intellectual History

Anthony Bogues
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 168–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-168
Published: 01 June 2008
... as modes of thought. It also argues that if Caribbean thought gets knotted up in the trope of Caliban, it will not decolonize itself and begin to wrestle with what Kamau Brathwaite has called the “inner plantation.” Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Writing Caribbean Intellectual History Anthony Bogues...
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On the Very Idea of a Black Radical Tradition

David Scott
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 1–6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665398
Published: 01 March 2013
... in which the idea of a black radical tradition has been employed. The essay suggests that “Africa” and “slavery” are recurrent tropes of this tradition and gives the example of Edward Kamau Brathwaite's discussion of Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa . © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013...
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Créolité , Creolization, and Contemporary Caribbean Culture

H. Adlai Murdoch
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 180–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3843938
Published: 01 March 2017
... accomplishments? One key predecessor, Kamau Brathwaite, suggested that the binarisms undergirding the principle of cultural distinctness on which much of the historical definition of the region was drawn be abandoned in favor of an increasing recognition of its intrinsic cultural heterogeneity. For many...
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Toward a Genealogy of Water: Reading Julia de Burgos in the Twenty-First Century

Rebeca L. Hey-Colón
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4272076
Published: 01 November 2017
... and Kamau Brathwaite. Ultimately, this essay discusses the uneasy relationship between rooted, land-based constructs of identity and flowing water imagery, arguing that exploring the tensions between them is productive not only in the case of Puerto Rico but also in other Caribbean settings. © Small Axe...
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Where Do Journals Come From? The Case of Sargasso

Lowell Fiet
Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 92–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3626812
Published: 01 July 2016
... anglophone Caribbean figures such as Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming, Gordon K. Lewis, and Lorna Goodison. Major Puerto Rican writers such as Luis Rafael Sánchez, Pedro Juan Soto, and Ana Lydia Vega were featured in early issues as well. After publishing nine issues in a bound letter-page format, Sargasso...
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Returns to a Native Land: Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Anglophone Caribbean

Melanie J. Newton
Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 108–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323346
Published: 01 July 2013
... in the 1960s, this narrative of aboriginal absence was widely incorporated across a range of genres into texts that constitute the anglophone Caribbean's decolonizing intellectual tradition. The essay critically engages with the claim—made most poignantly by Sylvia Wynter and Kamau Brathwaite—that diasporic...
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Beyond Geography, Past Time: Afrofuturism, The Rainmaker's Mistake , and Caribbean Studies

Kelly Baker Josephs
Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 123–135.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323355
Published: 01 July 2013
... to create a counterhistory of the present. Reading the novel through the lens of Afrofuturism and via Kamau Brathwaite's conception of a Caribbean cosmology and Sylvia Wynter's theories of aethetics, this essay examines the novel's representation of “the free”: a rapidly changing present existing...
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