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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 63–79.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Patricia Saunders Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Defending the Dead, Confronting
the Archive: A Conversation with
M. NourbeSe Philip
Patricia Saunders
Law and poetry both share an inexorable concern with language—the “right” use of the “right” words,
phrases or even marks...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Marta Fernández Campa This interview with acclaimed Trinbagonian Canadian author M. NourbeSe Philip offers an insight into her creative process, particularly in relation to Zong! As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng . It delves into the critical querying and ethical concerns guiding...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Warren Harding This essay argues for a comparative approach to studying and reading Black Caribbean women’s poetry. In particular, it focuses on the works of Cuban Soleida Ríos and Tobagonian Canadian M. NourbeSe Philip in their publications at the close of the 1980s. The essay asks, How does...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Daniel Benjamin This essay argues that M. NourbeSe Philip’s 2008 book-length poem Zong! offers aesthetic experience as an undetermined exposure toward communality. As readers, we are not merely consuming the poem, which emerges from Philip’s reading of a 1781 court decision regarding a slave...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 80–111.
Published: 01 June 2008
...M. NourbeSe Philip Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Zong! Poems
M. NourbeSe Philip
Prologue
The story of the eighteenth-century slave ship Zong is one that continues to haunt the
imaginations of artists and writers. Among those who have engaged with the horrific events...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
Published: 01 November 2018
... , as a verbal and visual signifier for a black girl not-yet-adolescent is an analysis that Sharpe develops in “The Ship,” chapter 2 of In the Wake . She is extending a moment of insight by M. NourbeSe Philip, shared in Small Axe in 2008, when during one of the many heartbeats spent reading the names...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): v–xvi.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., Confronting the Archive:
A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip
Patricia Saunders 63
Zong! Poems
M. NourbeSe Philip 80
Subverting Colonial Portraiture...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of “prophetic discourse,” argue that A Small Place “becomes more about acknowledging the trauma of lived time rather than measuring society’s departure from order.” Tobagan Canadian poet M. NourbeSe Philip turns our attention to the optic of the “fragment,” a generative reading practice that proceeds from...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2008
... Culture (New York: Routledge, 2005).
3. See M. NourbeSe Philip, She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (London: The Women’s Press, 1993).
4. Michel Foucault, “Lives of Infamous Men,” in The Essential Foucault, ed. Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose (New
York: New Press, 2003...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 191–193.
Published: 01 June 2008
... was awarded the Gold Musgrave Medal of the Institute of
Jamaica for Distinguished Contribution to history.
SX26 • June 2008 • Contributors | 193
M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet, essayist, novelist, and playwright living in Toronto. She...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 90–102.
Published: 01 July 2024
.... In Jamaican, to draw somebody tongue mean to incite them to lose them cool and make them say things them would rather hold inside out of propriety. Is not what I mean, though. Or, not totally. I mean try like experiment , which is how the Tobago-born poet M. NourbeSe Philip mean it in the title of She...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
... to that imposition of non/being” suggests to her these same Caribbean poets—M. NourbeSe Philip, Dionne Brand, Brathwaite, Glissant—who are decolonizing the language by furthering this process of decontamination and reinvention that incorporates an African past. 56 Caribbean singers and writers of African...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to a question about the price of recognition. Put simply, what does it mean to be recognized as part of the black radical tradition? Hazel Carby addressed this issue of recognition when she quoted M. Nourbese Philip in order to speak to the challenges of telling “the story that cannot be told.” 5...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 226–236.
Published: 01 November 2023
...,” in Caribbean Discourse , 120–34. The quote used as an epigraph to this essay is found on 124. 15 Ibid., 120; M. NourbeSe Philip, “Discourse on the Logic of Language,” in She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989; repr., London: Women’s Press, 1993), 30–33. 16 Mikhail Bakhtin...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Barbadian intellectual and Linden Lewis on race in Barbados. The immensely productive term nation language was to be the next theme, in which a selection from Brathwaite’s History of the Voice would be paired with an exceptional dialogue between Kamau and Édouard Glissant, along with M. NourbeSe Philip...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that Maria would “populate the place” was stark in its unadulterated violence, but it was also prescient. Her abandonment resulted from what the poet M. NourbeSe Philip names as the “space between the legs”—the productive site of racialized meaning wherein enslaved women’s reproductive capacities...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006). 47 McKittrick, Demonic Grounds , 46 (italics in original). 46 M. NourbeSe Philip, “Dis Place—the Space Between,” in A Genealogy of Resistance, and Other Essays (Toronto: Mercury, 1997), 77; see...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 185–193.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and a political attunement: mining. 1 Reading Kathleen DeGuzman, M. NourbeSe Philip, and Christina Sharpe together, Samuel finds in and across their work “a unified call to the field to move beyond seeking repair and instead to mine the ever-accumulating ruins of colonialism for new liberatory forms, visions...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 March 2009
... not American.
The idea of “belonging,” particularly in the context of citizenship, is worthy of further
reflection here. I am deploying this term in the sense evoked by M. NourbeSe Philip in her
discussion of African dispora subjects in newly emergent nation-states such as Canada.5
The term...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 171–180.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., recorded yet erased then found by M. NourbeSe Philip or by Christina Sharpe or by ‘some one of us’—and to each other, how do we care for some one of us?” 28 My sincere thanks to David Scott for this invitation. Deep thanks to Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Rinaldo Walcott, Tezeru Teshome, and K...
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