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When Is Poetry Political? Césaire on the Role of Knowledge in 1944
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and Knowledge,” the author compares the 1944 conference paper with the version published in Tropiques in 1945 to show a feedback loop between poetry and politics. The war, the isolation, and the intellectual evolution of Tropiques coalesced to form a new environment that prompted Césaire to rethink the relation...
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Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire: An Ecopoetic Theory of Caribbean Subjectivity
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 52–66.
Published: 01 November 2022
.... 4 Despite these significant developments, there remains much more to read both in the lines and between the lines of Césaire’s brief but rich body of work. This essay takes as its central premise that an interwoven reading of her seven essays published in Tropiques between 1941 and 1945...
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Revolutionary Genealogies: Suzanne Césaire's and Christiane Taubira's Writings of Dissent
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 91–101.
Published: 01 November 2015
... that reconsiders Césaire's legacy diachronically by placing it in conversation with the work of another singular figure, one who could very well be called her intellectual daughter: French minister of justice Christiane Taubira (b. 1952). When Suzanne Césaire cofounded Tropiques (1941–45) with her husband...
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Beyond the Great Camouflage: Haiti in Suzanne Césaire's Politics and Poetics of Liberation
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel Suzanne Césaire's essays in Tropiques make an important intervention in imagining a new Martinican and ultimately Pan-Caribbean identity during World War II. This study examines Césaire's joint politics and poetics of liberation in the context of dissidence in Martinique...
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“The Intuitive Lianas of My Hands”: Rebuilding Negritude as Embodied Ecopoetics
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 17–31.
Published: 01 November 2024
... as a trope celebrates the vine’s productive capacity while eliding its ability to harm the environment with which it also connects. 8 Suzanne Césaire, “Le grand camouflage,” Tropiques , nos. 13–14 (September 1945): 271. “Slow vegetal up-thrust”; Suzanne Césaire, “The Great Camouflage,” in The Great...
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The Living Word: Intracultural Translation in Ina Césaire's Zonzon tête carrée
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
... (November 2009): 63–73. 12 Arne Koch, “Intracultural Translations: Validating Regional Identities in Nineteenth-Century German Realism,” in Katherine M. Faul, ed., Translation and Culture: Bucknell Review (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2004), 76. 11 Aimé Césaire, Tropiques , x...
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Dark Horse Poetics: Lévi-Strauss, Benítez-Rojo, and Caribbean Epistemology
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
... is illuminated by a call-and-response between his Tristes Tropiques and Antonio Benítez-Rojo's The Repeating Island . A close reading reveals that the work of Benítez-Rojo extends one central discursive trope established by Lévi-Strauss—that of the cultural “transformation group.” For Benítez-Rojo, the Caribbean...
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The Void, the Distance, Elsewhere: Literary Infrastructure and Empire in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2020
... blockade. The Césaires did not simply endure these circumstances. Instead, they spearheaded a literary magazine called Tropiques with their friends and collaborators. Whereas Casanova’s concept of “literary resources” pertains to aesthetic—and not material—resources, Aimé Césaire’s conception...
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Forty Years with Césaire, 1968–2008
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 128–141.
Published: 01 October 2008
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de Raynal sisters. They had been Césaire’s pupils at the Lycée Schoelcher during the war years
and had retained good memories of his teaching. They had also kept their collection of the
magazine Tropiques, which they lent me with the intention that I should re-issue it. The fate...
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“Measured by the Compass of Suffering”: Reclaiming Negritude's Insurgent Dimension
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 138–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., 1996), 88; originally published in Tropiques , no. 1 (April 1941). 3 Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks , trans. Richard Philcox (1952; repr., New York: Grove, 2008), 201. 4 Alain Finkielkraut, quoted in “They Are Not Poor, They Are Arabs,” Haaretz , 19 November 2005. 5 “I...
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Un-nationalisms of the Federated Archipelago
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 69–77.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and Cultural History (London: New Beacon, 1992), 144. 30 Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, “Poetic Productions of Cultural Combat in Tropiques ,” South Atlantic Quarterly 115, no. 3 (2016): 503 (italics in original). See Aimé Césaire, “Poésie et connaissance,” Tropiques , no. 12 (January 1945): 166–69...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): v–viii.
Published: 01 October 2008
...—the
Paris-based L’étudiant noir of the 1930s (which he founded with fellow students Léopold Sédar
Senghor and Léon-Gontran Damas), and the Fort-de-France-based Tropiques of the 1940s
(which he founded with Suzanne Césaire, René Ménil, and others shortly after his return to
Martinique...
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Aimé Césaire: The Poet's Passion
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 119–123.
Published: 01 October 2008
... by Aimé Césaire and his friends (including his wife, Suzanne Césaire,
and René Ménil) in the journal Tropiques, among them a manifesto that even today has been
insufficiently considered, “Poetry and Knowledge.” In 1941, the journal, along with Césaire’s...
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Rethinking Aimé Césaire: Presentation
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 86–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
... makes clear, attention to this history reveals much about Césaire's evolution as a poet and thinker: from the still “romantic” and under-studied 1939 edition published in the journal Volontés , to the polemical “En guise de manifeste littéraire” (published in Tropiques in 1942), which includes...
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The Public Sphere and Jamaican Anticolonial Politics: Public Opinion, Focus , and the Place of the Literary
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 56–82.
Published: 01 July 2010
... away from the
catch-all political, social, and cultural newspapers of the 1930s, like the Beacon, and toward
the more exclusively literary journals of the 1940s, like Bim, Kyk-Over-Al, Orígenes, La poesía
sorprendida, and Tropiques.
In her diary, Edna Manley suggests some of the uneasiness...
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Forêts del Sur and the Pretexts of Glissant's Tout-Monde
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2015
... in a special issue of Tropiques —continually renders Césaire-as-verse and as-author in terms that suggest buoy and illumination. The tropes continue: “Toutes ces ombres grimaçantes se déchiraient, se dispersaient … ainsi la voix de l'homme n'était en rien brisée, couverte, elle se redressait ici comme l'épi...
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Queer Césaire
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
... démesurément le champ de la transcendance”; “A n’est plus A”; “des villes étranges, d’extraordinaires campagnes, des mondes tordus, broyés, déchiquetés[,] . . . l’être rendu au devenir”; Aimé Césaire, “Poésie et connaissance,” Tropiques , no. 12 (January 1945): 167, 166, 169. Unless otherwise indicated, all...
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Revistas y trayectorias culturales en el Caribe
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 85–91.
Published: 01 July 2016
... Sorprendida (República Dominicana, 1944), Tropiques (Martinica, 1941), Orígenes (Cuba, 1944), Focus (Jamaica, 1940), Revista del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Puerto Rico, 1945), Conjonction (Haití, 1946), y las ya mencionadas Gaceta del Caribe (Cuba, 1944) y Caribbean Quarterly (Jamaica...
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Contemporary Art as Cultural Product in the Context of Haiti
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
Published: 01 October 2008
... narrative, magical real-
ist painting and seized on ways of representing a poetic, sub-aquatic universe peopled with
6. See La Révolution sous les tropiques, exhibition catalogue (Paris: Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens, 1989).
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Créolité and the Regime of Visibility: Reading Les neuf consciences du Malfini by Patrick Chamoiseau
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 115–125.
Published: 01 March 2018
... depths of “being,” they do not link it to the unconscious. The psychoanalytic discourse present in Aimé Césaire’s and René Ménil’s Tropiques , in Glissant’s Caribbean Discourse , and in Frantz Fanon’s Peau noire, masques blancs is here replaced by a geographical understanding of identity. Exploring...
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