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Defending the Dead, Confronting the Archive: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip

Patricia Saunders
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 63–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-63
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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In Conversation with History: An Interview with M. NourbeSe Philip

Marta Fernández Campa
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 85–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724079
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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Absence and Disappearance: A Black Caribbean Women’s Poetics of the Body

Warren Harding
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 1–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724009
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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On Ecstatic-Aesthetic Universality—In Zong!

Daniel Benjamin
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7374418
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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Zong! Poems

M. NourbeSe Philip
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 80–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-80
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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Not Child but Meager: Sexualization and Negation of Black Childhood

Tezeru Teshome, K. Wayne Yang
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7249292
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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Introduction: On the Archaeologies of Black Memory

David Scott
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): v–xvi.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-v
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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Mine the Ruins

Petal Samuel
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912478
Published: 01 November 2019
... University, 2015), 149; M. NourbeSe Philip (and Setaey Adamu Boateng), Zong! (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011), 201–2; Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 7. Copyright © 2019 by Small Axe, Inc. 2019 Jamaica Kincaid...
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Venus in Two Acts

Saidiya Hartman
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-1
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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Contributors

Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-191
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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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
... 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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A Queer Pier: Roundtable on the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition

Nijah Cunningham
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665452
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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Din as Discourse in the Anglophone Caribbean

Supriya M. Nair
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 226–236.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10899218
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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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
.... 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 and Velma Pollard. 8 The journey was meant to continue...
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Partus sequitur ventrem : Law, Race, and Reproduction in Colonial Slavery

Jennifer L. Morgan
Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4378888
Published: 01 March 2018
... the catalyst for a collective abandonment. Drake’s pretense 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...
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Forging Relational Difference: Racial Gendered Violence and Dispossession in Guyana

Shanya Cordis
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912298
Published: 01 November 2019
... Importantly, it is the biopolitical capacities, or the mining of the black female body for sexual and reproductive exploitation—what poet and theorist M. NourbeSe Philip calls “the space between the legs”—that informs geographic terrains of domination. 46 As an enslaved body, whose flesh reproduces...
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Empire in the Mine of History

Christopher Taylor
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 185–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912490
Published: 01 November 2019
... with the invocation of a shared figure to name what is at once an archival method 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...
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Woman Overboard: The Perils of Sailing the Black Atlantic, Deportation with Prejudice

Patricia J. Saunders
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 203–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2008-016
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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“And to Survive”

Christina Sharpe
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 171–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7249304
Published: 01 November 2018
... In the Wake I hoped to situate us in the urgency of our present. And in that present, I continue to think care as shared risk, as an attempt to answer the question posed by Teshome and Yang, “How do we care for the meager girl, recorded yet erased then found by M. NourbeSe Philip or by Christina Sharpe...
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The Black Experience of New World Coloniality

Aaron Kamugisha
Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 129–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3481414
Published: 01 March 2016
... is an excerpt from the 1967 Detroit speech. See “Black Metamorphosis,” 251, for Wynter's paraphrase of this quote. 46 Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality,” 306. 47 M. Nourbese Philip, “Managing the Unmanageable,” in Selwyn Cudjoe, ed., Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International...
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