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“Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café”: Race and the Cuban Revolution in Nicolás Guillén Landrián's Coffea arábiga

Anne Garland Mahler
Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 55–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2873341
Published: 01 March 2015
... political statement on Cuba's racial discourse, responding directly to the state's hypocritical position toward racial equality. Considering the controversy over P.M. , the importance of the ICAIC newsreels to the Tricontinental's propaganda, as well as the gap between the Revolution's international...
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From Louverture to Lenin: Aimé Césaire and Anticolonial Marxism

Nick Nesbitt
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 129–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3341729
Published: 01 November 2015
...Nick Nesbitt This essay argues that Aimé Césaire remained committed to a nonaligned, tricontinental Marxism well beyond his resignation from the Parti Communiste Français in 1956. It describes this commitment positively in relation to “black Jacobinism” as well as the limitations of Césaire's...
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Calibán : Roberto Fernández Retamar's American Intelligence

Peter Hulme
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 115–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726902
Published: 01 November 2016
... and Windus, 1993), 257–58; and Robert J. C. Young, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), 210. 3 Fernández Retamar, Calibán , 65; “it is the hour of the furnace, and only light should be seen” (“Calibán,” 18). See Ernesto Che Guevara, “Mensaje a la tricontinental...
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Un-nationalisms of the Federated Archipelago

Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 69–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190589
Published: 01 March 2020
... Americanness Cuba claimed instead by spearheading “Tricontinentalism.” 28 James nonetheless positions the island as superlatively West Indian. In my reading, this incongruous move reveals that he defined Cuba through the lens of resistance and revolution, implicitly encoding West Indianness as an anti...
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Global Sisyphus: Rereading the Jamaican 1960s through A Brief History of Seven Killings

Sheri-Marie Harrison
Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 85–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4272013
Published: 01 November 2017
... on Marley's life in a larger narrative whose threads include the nonaligned tricontinental movement, the Cold War, and the OPEC crisis. A Brief History of Seven Killings is also a study in mischievous formal and thematic contradictions: as many reviews have noted—to the point of cliché—the novel...
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On the Idea of a Caribbean Cultural Studies

Aaron Kamugisha
Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 43–57.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323310
Published: 01 July 2013
... in the pursuit of freedom. Their work remains the hallmark of a radical tradition that will not lie down and be still. For James and Wynter, all of these insights pose profound questions about the responsibilities of Caribbean and Africana intellectuals. Speaking at the 1968 Tricontinental Congress in Cuba...
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Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War

Jason Frydman
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912310
Published: 01 November 2019
... through the Tricontinental Movement inaugurated in Havana in 1966. Caribbean studies suffers doubly from this splintering and fragmentation: already divided internally by imperial languages and histories, the area studies paradigm has worked to obscure how national and regional Cold War histories...
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Introduction: Literature and the State in Nancy Morejón

Antonio López
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 83–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384272
Published: 01 July 2021
... Américas 246 (January–March 2007): 3–16; and Anne Garland Mahler, From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018). 12 “Bringing to light and doing things for people whose main concern was loving literature...
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The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought

Minkah Makalani
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985654
Published: 01 July 2018
... the character of the independent African state. In “The Weapon of Theory,” his 1966 speech to the Tricontinental Conference in Havana, Cuba, Cabral offered his most sustained engagement with Marxist theory, specifically Marx’s claim that class struggle is the motive force of history, and with the corresponding...
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