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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)): 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 (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 (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 (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 (1 (64)): 102–115.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and Stichting voor Culturele Samenwerking (Netherlands), Literatuuroverzicht van de Nederlandse Antillen (Amsterdam: Stichting voor Culturele Samenwerking, 1985), 367–90. 68 Rudolph A. J. van Lier, Samenleving in een grensgebied: Een sociaal-historische studie van de maatschappij in Suriname (1949...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 78–86.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and an aid to further reflection. [email protected] © 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 (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)): 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 (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Wigbertson Julian Isenia This keyword essay traces the historical trajectory of the term kambrada . It argues for a broader understanding of Caribbean sexual dynamics, utilizing sources ranging from travelogues and novels to modern activist interviews. Kambrada , which is akin to mati in Suriname...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 59–66.
Published: 01 March 2023
...., 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 ; Wij slaven van Suriname...
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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 (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 201–204.
Published: 01 July 2023
... © 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 T olin A lexander is a theater maker. His intercultural and interdisciplinary work draws inspiration from Suriname’s multiethnic culture, particularly as it relates to his own Maroon culture and traditions. He participates in numerous national...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 123–136.
Published: 01 November 2014
... discussion. Were you born in the Netherlands? Charl Landvreugd : No! I was born in Suriname, in Paramaribo, in 1971. I was born on the same day as Marcel Pinas (the Surinamese artist), I in Paramaribo and he in Moengo—which is funny. The same exact date, only a hundred kilometres apart. WM...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Price, in Rainforest Warriors , has movingly written about the present struggles by Saramaka Maroons to resist the threats posed by the granting of licenses by the government of Suriname to multinational companies from China, Canada, and other places, to perform extensive logging and mining...
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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
... if the authors “mov[ed] from lip service to practice in the recognition of Martinique's fundamental Caribbeanness,” to its place in the world of Afro-America, “adopt[ing] a genuine, as opposed to merely programmatic, opening to the whole of the Caribbean (from Cuba, down through Trinidad, to Suriname)—both...
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