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Animal History; Animal Future?
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 187–200.
Published: 01 July 2023
... . The essay revisits and further advances the central thesis of Nature’s Wild , which recalls the work and multiple legacies of racialized animalization during and after European colonization of the Caribbean, and weighs the possibilities of embracing animality. [email protected] © 2023 by Small Axe...
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Embracing Our Animal Selves: The Liberatory Politics of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 159–166.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Kedon Willis This essay on Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (2021) reflects on the author’s application of animal studies as a productive analytic of the enduring anxieties around respectable citizenship in the Caribbean as expressed by contemporary regulations...
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This Is How You Become the Animal You Are So Bent on Becoming
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Michelle V. Rowley Taking Andil Gosine’s invitation in Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (2021) to consider the possibilities of animality, this essay sits with the two valences that are potentially inherent in his framing—first, that we reassess the generative possibilities...
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“We Are Animal. So What?”
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Rajiv Mohabir This essay is a reading of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (2021) that thinks through the author’s contributions on LGBTQ+ history, art, and activism in the Caribbean. It begins with a look at how the animal is wielded discursively to deride queerness...
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 1 Andil Gosine, Animal , 2014–22. Letterpress on paper, 2″ × 3.5″ each. Courtesy of the artist
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Cimarrón and the Reordering of the Living World
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2023
... demand a close consideration of the relationship between conquest, othering, racialization, commodification, and the reordering of the animal world with human animals as supreme beings. The contemporary reappropriation of the term alludes to a decolonial reframing, a unique opportunity to reject Western...
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Luisa Capetillo and the Counter-Republic of Letters
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 112–120.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo At the turn of the twentieth century, workers, anarchists, and intellectuals created a global resistance culture through print media, migration, and their radical imaginaries. The networks that animated this resistance culture gave way to the Counter-Republic of Letters...
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Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 45–62.
Published: 01 November 2021
...)—the story of Cuba Libre. This essay analyzes how the animated cartoon shorts and film series Elpidio Valdés (1974–2003) comically inflects the story of Cuba Libre with ridiculing laughter and choteo (folk humor). The series puts forth both a hero more akin to a populist trickster than a Spartan...
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Mine the Ruins
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... Through a reading of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place , the essay highlights how the market logics of mid-nineteenth-century imperial liberalization continued to animate new forms of West Indian erasure well into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While Kincaid deploys arguments of imperial neglect...
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Circuits of Political Prophecy: Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Tosh, and the Black Radical Imaginary
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 17–41.
Published: 01 July 2010
... critique, Civil Rights and Black Power ideologies, and Rastafarian consciousness animate the efforts of both figures as they attempt to refashion ideas of black political possibility through and against the terms of modern emancipation and citizenship. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Circuits of Political...
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Birth of a Station: Broadcasting, Governance, and the Waning Colonial State
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 36–52.
Published: 01 July 2014
... soundscape with points in New York, Havana, Port-au-Prince, and London. The author relies on an implicitly comparative framework but is also interested in following people and things as they traveled between these places and instigated new sonic routes. The notion of the disposition of things animates...
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Représentations de l’Afrique dans l’imaginaire haïtien au vingtième siècle
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 199–209.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Jhon Picard Byron La nation est au coeur des débats de l’école haïtienne d’anthropologie/ethnologie. Malgré les désaccords autour de la question nationale animant les tenants de cette école, une certaine historiographie, inspirée par les lectures des postcolonial studies et des Africana studies...
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The Politics of Style in “Caribbean Man in Space and Time”
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and animated by metaphors of creolization that derive from the archipelago’s geology, geography, and history. Ultimately, “Caribbean Man,” while immured in the nationalist sensibility of the 1970s, eschews a reductive nationalist politics for a more expansive notion of nation and community akin to Wilson...
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Dub Poetry as a Black Atlantic Body-Archive
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Phanuel Antwi Rereading dub poetry under the pressures of and with the resources of black feminist and queer theory, and treating the practice of dub poetry as a production of a sound archive, one that embodies and aurally animates the intimacies of the black Atlantic, this essay highlights...
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The Artwork of Clara Morera: Afro-Cuban Religious Legacy with a Twist
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 99–109.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Liceo in 1979, the artist presented a collection of thirteen paintings that highlighted the Afro-Cuban bestiary (see fig. 1 ). Among the different depictions of totemic animals Morera presented in that early exhibit was the aura tiñosa (vulture), which would become one of the most distinctive symbols...
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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
... animals in his writings before. 13 The difference is that Les neuf consciences du Malfini is told entirely from the bird’s point of view, and the novel can be seen as a part of a larger contemporary literary phenomenon that reinscribes animals into the literary tradition. 14 The narrative does...
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Science Fiction and the Rules of Uncertainty
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... human capacity for moral choice, a notion that Fukuyama endorses while reminding that there is still no scientific proof of that. 2 Our capacity for moral choices remains one of the core attributes of what distinguishes human from nonhuman animals. Even though human rights have been claimed...
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Returns to a Native Land: Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Anglophone Caribbean
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2013
...” or the result of an animal-like sexual union. Everything that Caliban inherits from Sycorax blurs the boundary between human and animal and fits him for enslavement (a deformed and possibly animal shape, lack of honor and civility, a servile yet violent nature, and unnatural sexual desires). The open...
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“Ancient Modes of Proof” and “Current Jural Doings”: Notes on the Work of Colin Dayan
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., “name the attraction which makes it exist: an animation. The photograph is in no way animated … but it animates me.” This “affective intentionality … steeped in desire, repulsion, nostalgia” and its impolite existence for the viewer is the photographic element Barthes calls the punctum and which he...
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A Multispecies Caribbean: The Aesthetics of Ecological Reinvention in Art by Dhara Rivera
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... The first is the artist’s deliberate manipulation of form: the branches, birds, and sleeves all have the cylindrical shape and size of a rolled-up towel. At first glance, the viewer struggles to identify each object as evoking a particular plant, animal, or human form. The similarity in material and color...
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