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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 87–99.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Mitchell Esajas Anton de Kom was an anticolonial thinker, resistance fighter, father, author, and poet—a renaissance man par excellance born in the Dutch colony Suriname. In his Wij slaven van Suriname (1934), De Kom, as a descendant of enslaved peoples in Suriname, described with razor-sharpness...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 67–77.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha This essay seeks to speculate on the reception of de Anton de Kom’s Wij slaven van Suriname (1934) within a very different context of political debates on race; decolonization; the politics of solidarity; and internationalist and anticapitalist struggles—all themes...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Guno Jones Through a close reading of Anton de Kom’s Wij slaven van Suriname ( We Slaves of Surinam e), this essay explores the complex legal, symbolic, social, and political lives of differentially positioned humans in the Dutch colonial and postindependent context. Firstly, De Kom’s 1934 book...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 85–92.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in Suriname and in the Netherlands used for themselves in different periods? What have Whites called African descendant people in Suriname and in the Netherlands in different periods? When does Black come to the fore? Who mobilizes the term and for what purposes? This exercise brings forward important...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 102–115.
Published: 01 March 2021
... was distinctively different. 39 Twentieth-century milestones relative to Dutch Caribbean decolonization nevertheless generally concur with similar events in the region. In the late 1930s legal and political discussions took place both in Suriname and the Dutch Antilles, arguing for a new model of governance...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 78–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and an aid to further reflection. k.j.fatah@hum.leidenuniv.nl © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Anton de Kom Dutch Caribbean canonization Suriname In 2020 Anton de Kom was included among the “fifty windows” onto Dutch history and culture that form the official Canon of the Netherlands. 1...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Wayne Modest; Susan Legêne This essay is an introduction to a special section that focuses on the life and work of Anton de Kom, and especially on his seminal 1934 Wij slaven van Suriname . It forms part of a larger project that explores how a Caribbean intellectual tradition can be thought...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
... enable an unremembered history to enter our field of vision, thereby generating an alternative wartime narrative. After tracing Nassy’s family history in Suriname and the conditions of his European incarceration, this essay discusses two paintings that demonstrate the significance of visual art...
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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 (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 199–210.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Sally Price This essay sets Éloge de la créolité (and the créolité movement) in the comparative context of earlier identitarian movements in the Caribbean and Afro-America, such as the Caribbean Artists Movement (anglophone Caribbean), Wie Eegie Sanie (Suriname), and the Grupo Antillano (Cuba...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 59–66.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Kom , 121. 14 Ibid., 43. 13 Irene Stengs, Worshipping the Great Moderniser: King Chulalongkorn, Patron Saint of the Thai Middle Class (Singapore: NUS Press, 2009), 38. 12 The three films are available online. See Children of Suriname , www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZnCEl_keCg...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 228–230.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., Curaçao,
andcities. Suriname Her edited and volume is currently The Caribbeandeveloping City a project (2008) onpresents crime anda cross-disciplinary citizenship in Caribbean range of
contemporary perspectives on the urban Caribbean.
Patricia Kaersenhout (whose art appears on the cover...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 123–136.
Published: 01 November 2014
...? 10 Antón de Kom, Wij slaven van Suriname (1934; repr., Bussum, Netherlands: Het Wereldvenster, 1981). © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 In the introduction to the recently published Dutch Racism , editors Philomena Essed and Isabel Hoving assert an exceptional quality to racism in the Netherlands...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
... by the government of Suriname to multinational companies from China, Canada, and other places, to perform extensive logging and mining in the Suriname rainforests. Price documents the Saramaka people’s struggles for recognition and justice through the Inter-American Court of Human Rights but also raises questions...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 169–172.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and Tobago; to the vodun in Haiti; to the winti in
Suriname and kumfa in Guyana; or with ancestors, such as those observing Maroon reli-
gions in Suriname and Jamaica; kumina, convince, and etu in Jamaica; saraka and nation
dance in Carriacou and Tobago; and palo monte in Cuba. Dreams...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 185–199.
Published: 01 July 2009
...
at the Crossroads: Grounding
the Miraculous with Tooy
Kenneth Bilby
Travels with Tooy may be both the most readable and the most complex and demanding of
Richard Price’s works on the Saramaka people of Suriname.1 Gone are the relatively transpar-
ent and somewhat mechanical textual devices...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 211–219.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., as opposed to merely programmatic, opening to the whole of the Caribbean (from Cuba, down through Trinidad, to Suriname)—both to its thinkers/writers and to its political/historical/cultural realities.” 12 Let us turn, then, to creolization-with-a- z . (With the excuse that not all literary scholars...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 88–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
.... Through this revision, the Bahamas, Haiti, and Suriname were added to the region and the common-market structure moved to a single-market economy. The addition of nonanglophone countries, such as Dutch-speaking Suriname (in 1995) and French- and Creole-speaking Haiti (in 2002), has produced more legal...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., Costa Rica, and Panama—in addition to the major strongholds of Amerindian survival in Surinam, Guyana, Belize, and Guiana, we find that the Indian has not vanished. We can then see that the Indian remains indomitably with us despite the violence, dismissal, and dispossession, she has endured since...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2008
... her with” in Harris’s List of Covent-
Garden Ladies; or as the paramour in the narrative of a mercenary soldier in Surinam; or as a
brothel owner in a traveler’s account of the prostitutes of Barbados; or as a minor character in
a nineteenth-century pornographic novel.1 Variously named Harriot...
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