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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 136–145.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Corinna Campbell; Tolin Alexander This essay features discussions with and among Suriname Maroons engaged in cultural work about the names they choose in self-reference. Maroon is just one choice of many; others include Fiiman (free person) and Busikondeesama (hinterland person). Each name...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
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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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 128–135.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of “picaroon” warfare. Attempting to consider the condition of instability and ungovernability and the current crises of Haiti in light of Maroon histories poses the question of whether the concept of “social banditry” has any value when generalized banditry comes to permeate an entire country amid...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Ronald Cummings This essay uses the concept of “Maroon in/securities” to refer to a number of creative practices of survival and a range of experiences and feelings that converge in the Maroon narrative. These two terms, when brought together, productively facilitate a dialogue between Maroon...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the essay’s purpose is to sketch the transnational community of formerly enslaved and free men and women from whom Schomburg inherited what the author calls his Maroon political consciousness. The essay also emphasizes how Valdés invites African diaspora scholars, activists, educators, artists, and so...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
...— marronner , to maroon or to go maroon , to marronize —a memory and fluency manifest in Wynter and her “Césairean” work for the future. 7 The vital reference points for a hemispheric or international black intellectual history in Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
...SJ Zhang This essay proposes the historical term simarrona (used in colonial Louisiana archives) as a heuristic for unlearning certain reading practices of the term maroon and its persistent “etymology plot.” Simarrona not only troubles the neat linguistic geographies of the term maroon...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 185–199.
Published: 01 July 2009
... for the primacy of cultural dynamism, creativity and change. Drawing on ethnographic and philosophical insights gained from his close engagement with the book's protagonist, a Saramaka Maroon healer, Price seeks to transcend (if not nullify) the terms of the “hoary debate” kept alive by these opposed “camps...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 210–217.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Deborah A. Thomas This article reflects upon Richard Price's newest work, Travels with Tooy . In it, the author argues that the book - on the surface, a text about the transmission of esoteric knowledge passed down from “First Time” to the present among Saramaka Maroons - is actually...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 218–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
... are apparently exotic or marginal peoples, such as the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname, truly part of the Caribbean world? While considering long-standing debates about African continuities vs. New World creativity, and discussing what Michel-Rolph Trouillot has called “the miracle of creolization,” the essay draws...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 24–44.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Rueda’s 1998 Las metamorfosis de Makandal , in which François Makandal is imagined as a protean god. The author argues that Rueda’s Makandal is best understood as the embodiment of the vanguard poetic movement, Pluralismo . The Maroon becomes a central figure in the island’s story, as well as a figure...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
... surrounding him and his contemporaries. The exchange includes ruminations about marronage and Maroon subjectivity; the futurity of the archive, including its omissions; and a redefining of blackness as a force that ruptures and disrupts facile categorization. 2 For a fictional rendering of Estevanico, see...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... grounds as a land commons that produce food sovereignty and communal identity. Then he represents the Jamaican Maroons’ local ecological knowledge as a source of resistance to plantation economies. Using Sylvia Wynter’s environmental theories of resistance, this essay argues that Wedderburn’s political...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 201–204.
Published: 01 July 2023
... SJ Z hang is assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. Their current project, “Going Maroon and Other Forms of Family,” considers how reproduction and carceral forces shaped the decisions and triggered the archives of four women who went maroon in North America...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 184–192.
Published: 01 July 2017
... Caribbean history, not in the terms set out by the epic story of the Haitian Revolution or by the anticolonial struggle but rather in terms of the politics of practical activity. 13 Freedom for maroons was often fleeting and provisional. It required living on the margins of the plantation system...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 61–79.
Published: 01 June 2006
... (the symbolic free space of the Maroons
and obeahmen/women), she understands
Why the ants had sent her this message to come to the wood
where the wound of the flower, its gangrene, its rage
festering for centuries, reeked with corrupted blood,
seeped the pustular drops...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 151–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
... as the outcome of an encirclement of unfreedom. Indeed, black unfreedom and antiblack violence is a priori to fugitivity and marronage, and once we acknowledge this concern, the question of how to think freedom takes on a different tenor. Similarly, the turn to marronage and Maroons encircled by freedom’s...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 123–128.
Published: 01 November 2018
... blind in his determination to record what he knows of what took place in the days of the Trade, by copying bills of lading and recounting the story of the child who was the first Maroon. He had been taught to read and write by some wayward priest, when for a slave to do so was a crime punishable...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 156–163.
Published: 01 February 2007
.... There was the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, the revolt of the Caribs in St. Vincent
in 1795, and the Maroon uprisings in Jamaica in 1795. While Steele correctly links Fedon’s
Rebellion with the French Revolution, she does not elaborate on the general implications for
the wider Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2013
... successfully replaced the Amerindians as the folk or ‘little tradition’ of the society.” 30 In an analysis of Jamaica's 1831 Baptist War Brathwaite identifies Caliban as “the black/slave rebel, trying, from cultural impulse, to return to align himself with his submerged/maroon ancestral heritage...
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