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Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History

Kevin Gaines

Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2008-015

Published: 01 March 2009

... Communist Claudia Jones, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008; 311 pages; ISBN 978-0-8223-4116-1 (paper). Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History Kevin Gaines In 1975, writing very much in the moment of global “Black Liberation” struggles emerging out...

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African American Memory at the Crossroads: Grounding the Miraculous with Tooy

Kenneth Bilby

Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 185–199.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3697166

Published: 01 July 2009

...Kenneth Bilby Richard Price's Travels with Tooy culminates with a series of reflections on a fundamental fissure that has persisted in the theorization of African American culture. On one side are those who stress African cultural continuity of various kinds, and on the other, those who argue...

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Visual Narratives of Cultural Memory and Diasporic Identities: Two Contemporary Haitian American Artists

Jerry Philogene

Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 84–99.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-2-84

Published: 01 September 2004

...Jerry Philogene Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Visual Narratives of Cultural Memory and Diasporic Identities: Two Contemporary Haitian American Artists Jerry Philogene n examination of cultural production is useful to the understanding of the experi- ences of diaspora...

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Through the Eyes of Hollywood: Reading Representations of Jamaicans in American Cinema

Tanya Batson-Savage

Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 42–55.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2010-004

Published: 01 July 2010

... of the Jamaican landscape as an exoticized idyll and the representation of Jamaicans as Rasta and/or gangsters. Tied to these images are the depictions of Jamaicans as obeah workers and believers. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Through the Eyes of Hollywood: Reading Representations of Jamaicans in American Cinema...

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For a Caribbean American Graininess: William Carlos Williams, Translator

Urayoán Noel

Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 138–150.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378964

Published: 01 November 2013

...Urayoán Noel This essay reads the eccentricities of William Carlos Williams's translations from the Spanish, collected in By Word of Mouth (2011), as extensions of the archipelic and hemispheric poetics developed in such early works as Kora in Hell: Improvisations (1920) and In the American Grain...

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Familial Longings: Trans-Caribbean Narratives of Dictatorship and the Latin American Imaginary

Daynalí Flores-Rodríguez

Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 69–85.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912334

Published: 01 November 2019

...Daynalí Flores-Rodríguez In recent reinterpretations of the Caribbean dictatorial past, Caribbean American writers living in the United States challenge the Latin American dictator novel genre as a discursive tradition that reduces Caribbean culture to specific representations of power, oppression...

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The Lost New World of Caribbean Studies: Recalling an Un-American Puerto Rico Project

Harvey Neptune

Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323382

Published: 01 July 2013

... or political dependency.” 23 By his own definition, of course, both the United States and Canada should have been included among the “other parts of the world” implicated by the Puerto Rico study. They, too, after all, had been “dependencies.” Revealingly, though, Steward admitted the North American...

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A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture

Melanie White

Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10899302

Published: 01 November 2023

...Melanie White This essay explores the visual cultural production of three twentieth-century Black Caribbean Central American women painters: June Beer and Judith Kain, both from the Miskitu Coast, and Iris Abrahams, from San Andrés and Providencia. Specifically, it contextualizes these artists...

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Da Inna Who Fa Mout' Mi Tongue / In Whose Mouth is My Tongue: Writing As A Belizean American

Ingrid M. Reneau

Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 94–99.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10-1-94

Published: 01 February 2006

... As A Belizean American Ingrid M. Reneau But Aunt Ingrid, dat nuh soun like we! Dah nuh so we talk! Hm! Da mussy wah American Belizean Creole yuh de talk. When my niece Karen responded so insightfully to fi rst reading my short story, Tears No Have To Fall, she exposed the heart of my own battle...

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African American Manhood in the Making of Caribbean (Inter)Nationalism

Belinda Edmondson

Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 261–268.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-2-261

Published: 01 June 2006

...Belinda Edmondson Small Axe Incorporated 2006 BOOK DISCUSSION: Black Empire Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, Michelle Stephens. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0822335514 African American Manhood...

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“Freddy Johnson, an African-American jazz musician who was interned in Titt...

in Making History Visible: Caribbean Artist Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Nazi Internment > Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism

Published: 01 March 2021

Figure 4 “Freddy Johnson, an African-American jazz musician who was interned in Tittmoning from January 1942 until February 1944, plays the piano.” Photographer unknown. Tittmoning, Bavaria, Germany, circa 1943–February 1944. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. Courtesy More

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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

... is paid to how Fernández Retamar inserts his argument into the long-running debate about Latin American identity but then relocates the central figure of Caliban to the Caribbean, where other writers such as Aimé Césaire and George Lamming had already begun to address the nature of colonialism via...

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665623

Published: 01 July 2012

... reference to the teaching of art history. Chambers explores why certain subjects or disciplines must, apparently, have their content racially signified by prefixes, such as African American art, African diaspora art, and so on, while supposedly more elevated disciplines within art history are allowed...

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What Is This Black in Black Diaspora?

Michelle Stephens

Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3697238

Published: 01 July 2009

...Michelle Stephens Looking back at the dialogue between Black British Cultural Studies and African American Studies that occurred during the 1980s and 1990s, when Stuart Hall first asked the question, “What is this black in black popular culture?” this article explores how that conversation has...

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Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History

African American Memory at the Crossroads: Grounding the Miraculous with Tooy

Visual Narratives of Cultural Memory and Diasporic Identities: Two Contemporary Haitian American Artists

Through the Eyes of Hollywood: Reading Representations of Jamaicans in American Cinema

For a Caribbean American Graininess: William Carlos Williams, Translator

Familial Longings: Trans-Caribbean Narratives of Dictatorship and the Latin American Imaginary

The Lost New World of Caribbean Studies: Recalling an Un-American Puerto Rico Project

A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture

Da Inna Who Fa Mout' Mi Tongue / In Whose Mouth is My Tongue: Writing As A Belizean American

African American Manhood in the Making of Caribbean (Inter)Nationalism

“Freddy Johnson, an African-American jazz musician who was interned in Titt...

Calibán : Roberto Fernández Retamar's American Intelligence

“Cook with coffee”; ca. 1916–17. Photograph by R. H. Beck. Brewster and San...

Gender and the Americanist James

Germaine, Evangeline, and Other “Negro Girls”: Rudy Burckhardt's Caribbean

Connection Failures: Discourse on Contemporary European and Caribbean Writing in French

Revisiting the Past and Roberto Fernández Retamar's Calibán

Soundscapes of Disaster and Humanitarianism: Survival Singing, Relief Telethons, and the Haiti Earthquake

The Difficulties of Naming White Things

What Is This Black in Black Diaspora?

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