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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 133–143.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Rican poetry—has provided the author with insight about the colonial conditions that structure translation as word-making practice, survival strategy, and decolonial methodology. In collaborating with Puerto Rican writers, translators, investigators, and scholars and sustaining a dialogue with a long...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
...” also gestures to the “new” poetics and unexpected, fresh, bomba -inflected sounds that came about in the city's Latino enclaves. 34 Algarín defines bomba —an Afro–Puerto Rican drumming rhythm—as the grammar that organizes the mixed English and Spanish words of Nuyorican poetry: “It is a bomba...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
... creative expression and new scholarship continued to grow, and it did not take long for island and stateside Puerto Rican feminists and other women of color and, later on, for a vast array of progressive women and men writers and artists to gravitate toward Burgos's poetry. In many ways, the real meaning...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 138–150.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of translation in By Word of Mouth are evident in “Prelude in Boricua,” his translation of “Preludio in Boricua,” the opening poem in Luis Palés Matos's influential 1937 collection Tuntún de pasa y grifería: Poemas afroantillanos , a cornerstone of modern Puerto Rican poetry and a landmark of Afro-Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 209–218.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of my trip, I had been connected virtually to Jack Agüeros (1934–2014), a New York Puerto Rican community activist, poet, writer, and translator and the former director of El Museo del Barrio. Agüeros had authored four collections of poetry, but my real interest in meeting him during my summer research...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
.... Here, Laviera posited movement as the state of being for Puerto Ricans in the diaspora. In other words, the tension between land/solidity and migration/water that was previewed in Burgos's poetry is not only present but in fact foundational to the literary production of the Puerto Rican diaspora...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203–208.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . Chapters 4 and 5 analyzes the important legacy of Burgos for the Harlem–New York–Puerto Rican and US Latin@ communities and the dialogues that different writers and artists have with her work. From poetry by Luz María Umpierre, Manuel Ramos Otero, and María Teresa Fernández, to art installations...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 61–83.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Michelle Joan Wilkinson Small Axe Incorporated 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Small Axe 16, September 2004: pp. 61 83 ISSN 0799-0537 Haciendo Patria: The Puerto Rican Flag in the Art of Juan...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2020
... not allowed formal membership into the political and revolutionary clubs, black Puerto Rican and Cuban women organized auxiliary clubs and wrote for several of the newspapers and journals. One publication in particular, Minerva: The Biweekly Magazine for Women of Color , was first published in Cuba in 1888...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2016
.... The severed relationship to Spain and Europe led to stronger ties with Spanish America in an effort to adopt a defiant stance toward the United States. The Spanish-Cuban-American war and the shift in power in the region marked the work of Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban intellectuals who remembered...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 220–223.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Afro-descended landowner father from Hispaniola and a local White Puerto Rican mother, at the age of ten he was sent to France, where he studied medicine and embraced the ideals of the French Revolution of 1848. Upon his return to Puerto Rico in 1856, he became active in abolitionist circles, for which...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 92–97.
Published: 01 July 2016
... anglophone Caribbean figures such as Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming, Gordon K. Lewis, and Lorna Goodison. Major Puerto Rican writers such as Luis Rafael Sánchez, Pedro Juan Soto, and Ana Lydia Vega were featured in early issues as well. After publishing nine issues in a bound letter-page format, Sargasso...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 50–68.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Cristina Pérez Jiménez Drawing from Earl Browder’s papers, this essay examines the Communist-sponsored, New York Spanish-language newspaper Pueblos Hispanos (1943–44), arguing that the publication staged an uneasy alliance between the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and the US Communist Party...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 68–73.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Julio Ramos This brief essay is an introduction to the work of Puerto Rican anarchist and feminist activist and writer Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922) and opens the special section on Capetillo in this issue of Small Axe . [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.
Published: 01 July 2013
... could still flatly admit, “Of course we are ex-colonials, and we have only recently begun to move our cultural capital within our own borders.” 10 This “postcolonial” character of his interpretation of the US past is on full display in the scholarship that appeared prior to his Puerto Rican...
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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 (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 219–221.
Published: 01 November 2017
...-winning Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait (2006). She received her PhD from Columbia University and has been a visiting professor at Cornell University and a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton and Yale Universities. J ossianna A rroyo is a professor in and the chair...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Puerto Rican) aesthetics, culture, and history that are distinctly presented and theorized in each of the scholarly interlocutor’s book-forum essays, this essay thinks about reading itself and other perceptual modes, such as listening, qua Whiteness, “the ontic,” and “slow violence.” In its (re...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., in La noche oscura del Niño Avilés by the Puerto Rican Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá and the poetry collection Exigencias de un cimarrón by the Dominican Blas Jiménez. 32 The cimarrón also appeared in public monuments such as the statue of the sixteenth-century cimarrón Sebastián Lemba erected in 1980...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
...., African Roots / American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), 139–52; Lisa Sánchez González, “Boricua Modernism: Arturo Schomburg and William Carlos Williams,” in Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora (New York: New...
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