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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 200–211.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Trevor Burnard The bleak moral vision in Vincent Brown's The Reaper's Garden offers to us a version of early America that is profoundly at odds with established, or at least popular, narratives of American historical development. It is also at odds with customary narratives of Caribbean history...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 28–58.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Shona N. Jackson Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the Routes to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean Shona N. Jackson Despite the physical and often linguistic crossings that occur between Latin America and the Caribbean, the largest border between the two is not language...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2016
...David Scott © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 The problem of independence was not the change in form, but the change in spirit. —José Martí, “Our America” In late October 2015 I visited Cuba for the first time, and, through the kindness of my Small Axe colleague Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, I had...
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Published: 01 November 2016
Roberto Fernández Retamar con sombrero, circa 1995. Courtesy of Casa de las Américas
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... epistemological status as the Garifuna homeland associated with ancestral marronage. The author looks at how public performances of Garifuna Settlement Day in Central America and the United States (New York City is home to the largest Garifuna communities outside Central America’s Caribbean coasts) open...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 117–146.
Published: 01 November 2023
...David Austin Drawing on Walter Rodney’s lesser-known texts and speeches alongside his How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), this essay demonstrates how Rodney applied Marx’s dialectical materialism to the study of slavery and colonialism in relation to labor in Africa and the Americas. It offers...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 142–151.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores In Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (2018), Dixa Ramírez astutely and compellingly displays the opacity of the Dominican Republic’s history in the context of the Americas. She complicates trite...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Demetrius L. Eudell This essay illustrates how Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” reconceptualizes the question of labor as it relates to the history of blacks in the Americas and generally to the being of Being Human. It does so by situating Wynter's distinctive intervention within the context...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 123–137.
Published: 01 November 2016
... America. Fernández Retamar traced the main characters from their inception in Shakespeare's play to his own essay; for him, the United States exemplifies Prospero and Cuba is Caliban. Fifteen years later, Fernández Retamar revisited his essay—he attacks certain Latin American intellectuals...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the most important unpublished nonfiction work by an anglophone Caribbean intellectual and is the major guide to the transition in Wynter's thought between her work mainly on the Caribbean and black America in the 1960s and 1970s and her theory of the human from the early 1980s onward. Not only does...
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Published: 01 November 2016
Roberto Fernández Retamar con Tomás “Titón” Gutiérrez Alea, circa 1970. Courtesy of Casa de las Américas
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 41–49.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Ingrid Pollard The Atlantic Ocean as physical and psyche space forms the basis of this work. During the last 600 years, stretches from the eastern shores in the Caribbean and the America's and the western shores and England and Europe, have been the sites of important arrivals and departures. Using...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 112–134.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Petrina Dacres Political monuments in Europe played an important role in the construction of national traditions and as spectacles of governmental power in the nineteenth century. But while the genre of the heroic statue had waned in Europe and America by the 1960s, it was an important convention...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 59–77.
Published: 01 July 2011
... and New York, this essay explores gendered and routinized modes of travel across sites of migration that displace the home-away dyad. How might we explain these visits to Caribbean people in places other than the Caribbean and to Caribbean places in North America? How might we account for the prominence...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 107–117.
Published: 01 July 2009
... benefits both in black Jamaica and in white America, where he comes to fully appreciate just how much of a Jamaican he is, as well as to grasp the idiosyncrasies of Jamaican vs American constructions of whiteness vs blackness. This paper examines issues of racial and cultural identity raised, directly...
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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 (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 211–219.
Published: 01 March 2017
... academy, drawing examples mainly from historical and anthropological work on Afro-America. It ends by considering the limitations of the perspectives put forth in the Éloge and the potential usefulness of the creolization concept for the future. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 Afro-America Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Sinnapah Mary (Guadeloupe). Each of the four women is a descendant of indentured workers who traveled to the Caribbean in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and for each this history is a reference point in her practice. Gosine proposes a consideration of the Americas as a consequence...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and social organizing in a region that remains marginalized in the historiography and scholarship on Latin America and the Caribbean and radical Black diasporic politics. Furthermore, this small yet powerful cohort of three twentieth-century Black Caribbean Central American women visual artists not only...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 85–97.
Published: 01 November 2017
... is the ghost of Sir Arthur Jennings. The third is reference to global figures and events that index the destabilization of governments in Latin America and Africa. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 Jamaica development urban renewal Marlon James Kingston Whether it functions as the literal and figurative...
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