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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
Published: 01 March 2019
... moves through Immanuel Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment to contend that aesthetic experience as such requires this kind of ecstatic movement. The sociality assembled by aesthetic judgment is an ecstatic, de-structured collectivity. Zong! ’s sensus communis is not an a priori universality...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2021
... city is always already engaged in an exercise of political and philosophical deliberation regarding property rights, use of voice, aesthetic judgment, and ethical values. 21 Even more important here: the public city, “whose existence is organised around a commons of the image ,” is a place where...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 172–176.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is uninterested in the former.) G ese issues of judgment and forgiveness, which may be
aaxexe
at the heart of Kincaid’s melancholia, and the melancholia itself, product of a sense of
abandonment, haunt us with equal force at the end of Mr. Potter.
117676
Localizing the Aesthetic Search...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is uninterested in the former.) G ese issues of judgment and forgiveness, which may be
aaxexe
at the heart of Kincaid’s melancholia, and the melancholia itself, product of a sense of
abandonment, haunt us with equal force at the end of Mr. Potter.
117676
Localizing the Aesthetic Search...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is uninterested in the former.) G ese issues of judgment and forgiveness, which may be
aaxexe
at the heart of Kincaid’s melancholia, and the melancholia itself, product of a sense of
abandonment, haunt us with equal force at the end of Mr. Potter.
117676
Localizing the Aesthetic Search...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 198–212.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., 2010); Edouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays , trans. J. Michael Dash (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989); Achille Mbembe, On the Postcolony (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). 44 Ibid., 235. 43 Fred Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 134–154.
Published: 01 November 2011
... in colonial Saint-Domingue? Were things better under Emperor Faustin I than under General
Cédras? Judgments on the nature of an extractive, predatory state do not necessarily include the life quality of its
malevolently neglected citizens.
2 See Susan Sontag, “Fascinating Fascism,” in Under...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 33–48.
Published: 01 July 2023
... and didn’t care about modernism. Put differently, he recognized that modernism was not an option he could evade (as the internalized dispositions of embodied sensibility and taste), even if it was also not an option he could straightforwardly, politically embrace (as a hegemonic mode of aesthetic judgment...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
... objects of study—alternative, understudied
books—the centrality of canon formation to that particular subfield is greatly reinforced. The
significance of Haiti Unbound gets to the heart of what we select to study—and the value
judgments associated with these choices—when tackling literature...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 34–50.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Tohru Nakamura This essay argues that George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin presents an aesthetic quest into an alternative Caribbean subjecthood built on the capacity of feeling. Studying various dimensions of affectivity along with what Raymond Williams called “structures of feeling...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 124–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2017). 36 Letter #133, GR to KB, Thursday, 21 February 2008, 10:53 p.m. 35 Letter #132, KB@NYU.edu to GR, Thursday, 3 January 2008. 34 See Kamau Brathwaite, “The New Aesthetics and the Nature of Culture in the Caribbean: ‘The Dreams Coming...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 73–82.
Published: 01 October 2007
... for autonomous and relevant postcolonial cultural production. According
to him, the Intuitives “must be closely observed as guides to that aesthetic certitude which
must be rooted in our own creative potential if the world is to take us seriously as creators
rather than as imitators.”3...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 30–45.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Rivke Jaffe This paper explores the existence of `ital chic' in Jamaica. A cross between ethical consumerism and the marketing of cool, ital chic represents an aesthetic repertoire and a commercial strategy based on Rastafari. The symbols and aesthetics of a Rastafari lifestyle, or `ital livity...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 97–110.
Published: 01 July 2010
... aesthetics of Jamaican street
life—its crude cultural dissonances, its ambivalent male posturing, and its violent outpourings—
as part of a larger discussion about performance, masking, and subaltern identities.4
That passa passa night presents a useful point of departure...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 October 2006
... and back, gaze
unaverting. One eyewitness described him as having “strutted” down the isle of the cathedral
as he set it on fire. His is the Rasta variant of the “cool pose,” the movement aesthetics designed
to convey the regal bearing of a child of the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 179–190.
Published: 01 June 2008
... that scholars face when appraising
the works of other scholars. A popular literary critic, say, a book reviewer such as Michiko
Kakutani assessing recent titles for the New York Times, will seek to embody the educated
general reader, identifying with the best aesthetic interests of that imagined...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
... may be shaped
or deformed through the aesthetic features of ideological discourse, and (2) how formations
of black consciousness reflect the degree to which actors and publics are attuned to modes
of political performance that simultaneously challenge and reinforce the boundaries of racial...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of an evolving relationship between aesthetics and politics that scholars of Caribbean and postcolonial literature have often examined more separately than concurrently. 3 Today, questions about the abuse or corruption of knowledge for political purposes abound. I thus return to the International Congress...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 35–62.
Published: 01 November 2013
... literature toward littérature engagée . They believe that as francophone authors, they should not be bound to the imperative to produce politically engaged fiction. Instead they emphasize the as-of-yet unexploited aesthetic possibilities of Caribbean writing. These possibilities are wholly consonant...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 197–208.
Published: 01 July 2011
...,
and Rhonda Cobham, Leah Rosenberg, and Michelle Stephens have explored the intellectual,
aesthetic, erotic, and other dimensions of this for the twentieth-century writer Claude McKay.16
Certainly, intimacy implies a colonizing gaze as much as anything else, as Rhonda Cobham
shows...
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