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The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Postcolonial Caribbean Discourse: Transnationalism and Anticolonialism in Creole Recitations
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 186–196.
Published: 01 July 2011
... genealogy and a model for contextualizing the issues, experiences, and approaches that began to be highlighted with the advent of postcolonial studies. © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 The Nineteenth-Century Roots of
Postcolonial Caribbean Discourse:
Transnationalism and Anticolonialism
in Creole...
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Creoleness and Nationalism in Guyanese Anticolonialism and Postcolonial Formation
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 106–122.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Percy C. Hintzen Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Creoleness and Nationalism in Guyanese
Anticolonialism and Postcolonial Formation
Percy C. Hintzen
n analysis of the postcolonial formation of Guyana (formerly the English colony
of British Guiana) and its relationship...
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A Return to the Anticolonial: History as Weapon on the Caribbean Battlefield
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Audra A. Diptée This essay presents a strategy for putting anticolonial thought in praxis through the critical application of historical thought. It suggests a method of inquiry that is problem oriented and geared toward countering hegemonic discourses. The methodological approach proposed argues...
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Anticolonial Radicals in Different Registers: On Otto and Hermina Huiswoud’s Black Communism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 87–109.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., the infrastructure of the Comintern enabled the Huiswouds to champion anticolonial and anti-racist causes. Following the war, the Huiswouds championed anticolonial nationalist causes, though without abandoning international solidarity and the critique of economic exploitation. The shift from international Communism...
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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
.... 2010 The Public Sphere and Jamaican
Anticolonial Politics: Public Opinion,
Focus, and the Place of the Literary
Raphael Dalleo
The 1930s and 1940s are pivotal to accounts of the history of anticolonial nationalism through-
out the Caribbean, and especially in Jamaica. It has become...
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From Louverture to Lenin: Aimé Césaire and Anticolonial Marxism
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 129–145.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the countryside to urban factories where their productivity tends to be much higher” (25). 28 Of course, unlike the nominally anticapitalist Leninist and anticolonial sequences, the revolutions of the 1790s, including the Haitian, like the “Velvet” revolutions of 1989, were revolutions into capitalism...
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Introduction: Public Secrets and the Archives of Black Internationalism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 83–86.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Wayne Modest This essay introduces a special section on Otto and Hermine Huiswoud, Black Caribbean internationalists whose anticolonial and Communist organizing spanned several decades and continents, from Suriname and the United States to the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, and to Russia. Otto...
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Decolonization, Otherness, and the Neglect of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean Studies
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 102–115.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Margo Groenewoud; Aaron Kamugisha This essay traces the roots of marginalization of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean studies, approaching these roots as an integral part of a shared Caribbean intellectual history. In the era of twentieth-century Caribbean anticolonialism, nationalism...
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The Science-Fictional Caribbean: Technological Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber and Beyond
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2018
... societies. Hopkinson utilizes more explicitly sciencefictional tropes of extraplanetary colonization and cybernetics to explore how technologies carry the potential to serve both (neo) colonial and anticolonial ends. Midnight Robber demonstrates how colonial and anticolonial notions of “progress” similarly...
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Other Radicals: Anton de Kom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... intellectual tradition anticolonial critique Black radical thought Anton de Kom Coming to Anton de Kom—Wayne Modest: It was only in 2006 that I first encountered Anton de Kom and his 1934 book Wij slaven van Suriname ( We Slaves of Suriname ). 1 Schooled as I was in what some have described...
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Preface: The Last West Indian
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2022
... after Of Age and Innocence . This was a momentous year, not only for West Indian fiction but more importantly for the anticolonial project, especially on the African continent—seventeen African countries gained independence in 1960. And partly in response to this avalanche of sovereignty in Africa...
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To Be Black Is to . . .: The Production of Blackness in and beyond Trinidad
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2022
... haunts the anglophone Caribbean. The focus is on how this haunting is palpable to the criminalized urban poor in Trinidad; yet Black has never simply denoted abjection. From the vantage point of postcolonial Caribbean nation-states founded on anticolonial projects of Black sovereignty, one can see...
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Sensorial Errancy in Decolonial Key
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., and in the current rounds of colonial settlement through tax haven conditions in the realm of real estate. The essay shifts the language of anticolonial sensorial errancy to decolonial sensorial errancy to focus on the forms of “slow violence” of economic invasion/ control, the productivity of which presses us...
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More Relevant Than Ever: We Slaves of Suriname Today
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 87–99.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Mitchell Esajas Anton de Kom was an anticolonial thinker, resistance fighter, father, author, and poet—a renaissance man par excellance born in the Dutch colony Suriname. In his Wij slaven van Suriname (1934), De Kom, as a descendant of enslaved peoples in Suriname, described with razor-sharpness...
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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
.... In the twentieth century, the cimarrón became attached to masculinist nationalist tropes key to postwar anticolonial movements. In the new millennium, Black and Brown women and LBTQ+ folks use the term to convey an ethos of antipatriarchal, community-centered activism. The essay argues that the origins of the term...
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What Lies Here, Beyond Boundary?
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
...” rather than on property. The second insight holds essentialism to account for the tropes through which Black nation-states are read. From this she asks, might it be that an enforcer who does not enforce is anticolonial, leveraging chinks in the plantation logic of the law? [email protected]...
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A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
...’ landscape portraiture against the historical backdrops of colonialism, territorial dispossession, and autonomous struggle in the isthmus. Understanding the political and the cultural as inextricably intertwined, this essay reads their place-based visual art as a critical form of anticolonial critique...
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Queer Césaire
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and decidedly queer. Using Lam’s multispecies interpretations as method and guide, the author teases out the few yet remarkable queer fragments that appear in Césaire’s subsequent revisions of the Notebook . What if in addition to an anticolonial Black poet, we also thought of Césaire as a queer poet? 10...
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Negritude’s Problem with History: The Case of Léonard Sainville
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2019
... that the latter’s critiques of history do not follow necessarily from the failure of postcolonial history to follow the trajectory laid out for it by narratives of anticolonial overcoming. Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 Ironically, the author who played the largest role in defining commonplace...
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Can a Mulatta Be a Black Jacobin?: C. L. R. James, Feminism, and the Place of Collaboration
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 87–103.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of patriarchy and, at best, as a man caught between the feminist politics of the women in his life and the constraints of a male-centered Caribbean revolutionary and anticolonial tradition. By contrast, this essay argues that the feminism in the play must be read beyond James the man and instead in the context...
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