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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 133–143.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Raquel Salas Rivera Working as principal investigator and head of the translation team for El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña / the Puerto Rican Literature Project (PRLP)—a free, bilingual, user-friendly, and open access digital portal that anyone can use to learn about and teach Puerto...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 174–176.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 N ancy B ird -S oto is professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she teaches Latin American and US Latinx literatures. In 2018 she published Dissident Spirits: The Post-insular Imprint in Puerto Rican / Diasporic...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 55–69.
Published: 01 March 2018
... alike patronize Piñones’s kiosks that sell popular fritura that reflects Puerto Rico’s African roots. Dominicans and Puerto Ricans in Piñones and Loíza have worked together in community organizations in response to development projects that threaten the natural resources and cultural institutions...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the Nation in Puerto Rican Art and Literature,” MLN 117, no. 2 (2002): 451. Soto-Crespo argues that El velorio , like other works of Puerto Rican art and literature, is an “incomplete” or “unfinished space in mourning for previous forms of national connectedness” (ibid.). Renan, Qu’est-ce qu’une nation...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 160–165.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of Betances, began a project to compile in Spanish all his works, publishing his collected writings through a small Puerto Rican press. Continuing their project through another independent local press, Ojeda Reyes and Estrade eventually published the fifteen-volume Betances: Obras completas . Although...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203–208.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jossianna Arroyo This review essay focuses on a critical reading of Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon with the aim to shed light on these following questions: How can we read the writing of community in the work of Julia de Burgos? And to what...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
...-nationalist projects that he once immersed himself in on his arrival in New York City in 1891. Although Sinnette was relaying what some of his Puerto Rican contemporaries reported about Schomburg (e.g., Pura Belpré, Jesús Colón, and Bernardo Vega), many understood this to mean that he gained what his...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 61–83.
Published: 01 September 2004
... axe 78 in general. In 1999 Sánchez presented a similarly provocative recoloration project. One of his new series of Puerto Rican fl ag paintings depicted Malcolm X and employed the color scheme of red, black, and green, referencing Hammons s African American Flag, albeit as it outlined the dimensions...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., it should be clear, was not against the project of imagining a Puerto Rican nationality. He in fact fully appreciated the context in which patriotic cultural politics had become viable if not necessary on the island, remarking on the powerful challenge “Americanization” posed to the cultivation...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., a group that gave visibility to women's participation in the nation-building project for a sovereign Puerto Rico, and became a noted public speaker for the liberation cause. In retaliation for the Río Piedras Massacre killings, Colonel Riggs was assassinated by two Puerto Rican nationalists in early...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Sánchez González, Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora (New York: New York University Press, 2001), 81. 41 “Working-class intellectual”; “democratizer of the written word”; Ramos, introduction to Amor y anarquía , 37. 42 “Let us educate our own will so...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2016
... identity among Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans. 21 “Our lack of communication,” says Sánchez, “is not limited to the French- or English-speaking Caribbean.” Our ignorance about the Dominican Republic's literature is astonishing unless the text comes via a Spanish publisher...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 64–77.
Published: 01 November 2014
...—effaces Puerto Rican authors from the US literary canon and, subsequently, from the world republic of letters; as Casanova has argued, the world republic of letters grants texts literary legitimacy on the condition that they possess a literary nationality. 25 If canonical literary works project...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 122–132.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of San Juan have already increased 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since 1950, “historically unprecedented warming” of between 2 and 5 degrees is projected to occur in the Puerto Rican environs by the year 2100, with increased frequency of extreme heat events. 18 These shifts imply huge consequences...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
... conference titled “Images and Identities: The Puerto Rican in Literature,” which brought together creative writers and critics from Puerto Rico and the diaspora for the first time, Algarín evoked the cultural and epistemic violence that migration signified: What does it mean, then, to the New York Puerto...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 232–234.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. She specializes in transdisciplinary approaches to Black and Afro-Latina feminism and literary and performance theory. Her first manuscript, titled “Impositions: The Aesthetic Blackening of Puerto Ricanness,” explores works of literature, music...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that confront the ongoing depredations of environmental colonialism. This essay takes a first step toward establishing a field of multispecies Caribbean studies by analyzing the work of the contemporary Puerto Rican artist Dhara Rivera. Rivera’s installations critically reimagine multispecies relations...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 44–52.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Emeterio Betances Puerto Rico Caribbean decolonization anticolonialism Caribbean literature Although he did not originate the concept of a Caribbean federation, the Afro–Puerto Rican intellectual Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827–98) was its principal and most fervent advocate in the second half...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 209–218.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Vanessa Pérez-Rosario This essay—a response to a discussion of the author's 2014 book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon —focuses on the importance of generations, intellectual genealogies, iconicity, and the afterlives of Puerto Rican poet and writer Julia de Burgos. ©...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 115–129.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Patería is a Puerto Rican Spanish-language vernacular synonym for “queerness” as a sign of gender and sexual transgression. It invokes stigmatized LGBTQIA+ local language practices that coexist in tension with the modernity, paradoxes, and challenges of other words...
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