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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 53–66.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and are now held in France. Examining the history of this archive that stands as a metaphor for Swedish colonial amnesia, this essay discusses the reluctance in Sweden to recognize a past that goes against a self-image untainted by slavery and colonialism. The essay also discusses a project that aims to open...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 208–210.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Miguel, Con-federating the Archipelago, a special section of Small Axe 61 (2020), and she translated the poetry collection Spinning Mill (2019) by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias. fredrik thomaSSon is an associate professor of history at Uppsala University, where he works on the Swedish possession (1784 1878...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 193–202.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the baton Trouillot handed us and ask ourselves what other than our historicist ways of thinking renders History's sans papiers and the stories told about them so distinctly “unthinkable”? This essay was written while I held a Fellowship at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Uppsala. My...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2018
... at the level of discourse—focusing their attention, for example, on how descriptions of plant reproduction served as metaphors for human sexuality. 25 A central text in such studies is Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus’s widely influential Systema Naturae . First published in 1735, Linnaeus’s work promoted...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 1–21.
Published: 01 July 2012
... been murdered in the Eastern Caribbean: the honeymooning couple in Antigua, the brutally slain Swedish tourists in Tobago, to say nothing more of the Natalie Holloway Aruba murder case. However, it is generally accepted that “violent crime rarely touches tourists.” 8 Why not? Why have the thinly...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 112–132.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in their ancestors places. Antillean art is this restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archi- pelago becoming a synonym for pieces broken off from the original continent Walcott delivered these observations before the Swedish crown, entrenched in what he...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 187–200.
Published: 01 July 2023
... that elaborate and further develop the ideas from the book. Duets is a shifting project, sorting itself out over the next two years in varying iterations of collaborations with companion creatives. I wake up one morning thinking of Swedish Italian friends I have not seen in over a decade, and a web search...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 28–46.
Published: 01 March 2021
.... In March 1944, of the 329 American prisoners at Tittmoning 28 were repatriated to the United States on the Swedish liner SS Gripsholm . Among these were 6 African American prisoners (there were 17 black prisoners altogether in Tittmoning). 17 Why a disproportionate number of Tittmoning’s black...
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