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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 115–127.
Published: 01 July 2018
... affirmation of the artistic movements in the 1960s. 3 Consequently, when we analyze Montez’s impact in the United States and the Dominican Republic we get a glimpse of how Stuart Hall’s conception of the “burden of representation” can be applied to Latina actresses such as Montez in Hollywood during...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 57–69.
Published: 01 March 2017
... sees similarities in their ways of working and defining the female body and in their ways of using historical and contemporary references in the narratives in which they place these gendered bodies. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 contemporary art Latina artists gender studies This essay explores...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 94–103.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., “pick your teeth” in public, “wear clothes that are too tight,” and be too much in the spatial demands of tact (182). These features of personae unfold in the comedic and campy work of Cuban chusma artist Carmelita Tropicana who co-opts the “flagrant” Latina by becoming its agent of excess. 8 Muñoz...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 197–200.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and African diasporic literatures, with particular attention to fiction, narrative ethics, and post-nineteenth-century movements in world literature and world health. K aren J aime is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts and the Latina/o Studies Program...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 85–98.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Sharina Maillo-Pozo This essay examines Raquel Cepeda’s memoire, Bird of Paradise. How I Became Latina , through the intersections between Dominican latinidad , gender, race, and hip-hop. By exposing other discourses of latinidad as performed and imagined in New York City by an afrodominicana...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 219–221.
Published: 01 November 2017
... -C olón is an assistant professor of Spanish at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, where she teaches Caribbean and Latinx studies. Her current book project, “Rippling Borders in Latina Literature,” explores the relationship between water, borders, bodies, and spirituality in Chicana and Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
... to consider, as Ginetta Candelario reminds us, is that this generation of Dominicans still struggles with “domestic racial projects—where ‘domestic’ refers to both the homeland and the hostland—and the racialized geopolitics of US–Latin American relations are fundamental to Latina/o racial formations.” 22...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 93–99.
Published: 01 July 2022
... intentionally left untranslated. As an illustration—the moment Black diasporic people at an AfroLatinaled comedy show share laughter and joy when the loud White Latina in the room who has been overly boisterous and taking up sonic space is told by the AfroLatina comedian host, “Mami, please, shut the fuck up...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 205–208.
Published: 01 March 2022
... at the University of Scranton. Many of her courses support the women’s and gender studies and Latin American studies programs. Her publications have appeared in journals such as Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies , Chicana/Latina Studies , Afro-Hispanic Review , MaComère: The Journal...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 206–209.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context (2014). W illiam L uis is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where he also directs Latino and Latina studies and edits Afro-Hispanic Review . His books include Literary Bondage...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... Here I turn to José's critical writing on black queer Latina/o performance—specifically his essay on African American/Mexican performance artist Vaginal Crème Davis in Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics —as a framework to read through and unpack the work of Dominican...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203–208.
Published: 01 November 2017
... as a symbol goes back to the iconicity of the myth that Pérez-Rosario wants to avoid. In other words, the temporal breaks and continuities of these artistic creations fall, in Pérez-Rosario's description, in the creation of a unitary multicultural Latina subject. What lies behind this contradiction...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 189–198.
Published: 01 November 2016
... to be considered antihegemonic. In my analysis of these two Dominican American women artists, I wanted to challenge some of the currents in US-centric Latina/o and African diaspora studies in which the US space necessarily leads to eureka moments while the non-US space remains backward, caught in the realm...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 115–122.
Published: 01 November 2016
... Latina (Havana: Fondo Editorial Casa de las Américas, 2005). See also two substantial volumes: Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan, Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991); and Nadia Lie and Theo D'haen, eds., Constellation Caliban: Figurations...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 June 2008
.... He is one of the senior editors of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States and an associate editor for Latino Studies. He is the author of An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (2006), El Retorno de las Yolas (1999), The Dominican Americas (1998), and Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2016
... visual artist who was born in the Dominican Republic, and a liquid border in Ana-Maurine Lara's novel Erzulie's Skirt . 34 Refocusing on Caribbean and Latino literary and visual representations of the sea as border and frontier will expand the conversation between Caribbean and Latina/o traditions...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 229–233.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of the senior editors of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States and an associate editor for Latino Studies, he has authored, among other works, An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (2006), El retorno de las yolas (1999), Caribbean Poetics (1997...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 164–166.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City . Her current projects examine the racial aesthetics and architecture of the real estate market, the global circuits of planning ideas, the landscapes produced by Caribbean engineers, Afro-Latina/o/x experience, and mobile segregation. J oan F lores...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of comporting as good Latina/o/xs” (37; italics in original). As such, Ellis Neyra reads this as a moment of “anticolonial pleasure” (54). Similarly, Jocelyne Guilbault has argued for a politics of pleasure in live soca performance that gathers together audiences and artists in a sense of community...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
... within the Puerto Rican and other Latina/o communities in the United States and the rest of the hemisphere. Pérez-Rosario skillfully interweaves the poet's life with her poems, letters, articles, and speeches, making it possible to appreciate the wider significance of Burgos's unforgettable legacy...