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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Marta Fernández Campa This essay highlights the role of archives, archival research, and integration of archival records in contemporary Caribbean visual artwork that evokes and reimagines unevenly recorded historical processes/moments. It also suggests the defining role of this approach...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Marina Magloire This essay traces the evolution of Katherine Dunham’s relationship with Haiti through archival research and a consideration of her 1969 ethnographic memoir, Island Possessed . It argues that primitivist discourses framing Vodou as an instinctive capacity latent in all people...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 244–253.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Gaiutra Bahadur The author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture , a narrative history about indentured women, discusses researching and narrating the lives of subjects missing, at least in their own words, from the archives. She reflects on the possibilities of the personal and the present...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 111–119.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Nancy Raquel Mirabal The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is the premier center of African American and Afro-diasporic studies. Yet, as the literary scholar Vanessa Valdés argues, we know little of the center’s namesake and his drive to collect and establish a renowned archive...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to Caribbean sexuality and nonbinary gender are addressed. King ends by introducing her current research project, which uses existing and imagined archives to examine Afro-Trinidadian women's protest and performance in the late nineteenth century. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 Caribbean gender Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 125–137.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of possible courses for redirecting action by investigating the degree to which the neoliberal ethic of entrepreneurial individualism has come to occupy the discourse of admirable behavior in one rural Jamaican community. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, it examines the impact of neoliberal...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2015
...James Procter This essay focuses on the Jamaican poet, dramatist, and broadcaster Una Marson (1905–65) and her turbulent career at the BBC between 1939 and 1946. Drawing on a range of unpublished archival sources, including files recently vetted and released for research since the publication...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
Published: 01 July 2018
... for the duration of his service, as he and his husband promoted an “out and proud” homonormativity that contradicts the more conventional “open secret” of LGBT lives in the Caribbean. This essay draws on ethnographic field notes, participatory research, and an online archive regarding the climate for LGBT...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 116–131.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and to demonstrate the extent to which the repatriation created a transnational documentary trail with a set of archival imperatives that renders the national archive insufficient for the reconstruction of postcolonial Caribbean intellectual history. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 archival research transnational...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 228–230.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and Postcolonial Studies.
Her book Feminist Visions and Queer Futures in Postcolonial Drama will be published by
Routledge in 2010.
Chandra D. Bhimull is assistant professor of anthropology and African American studies at
Colby College, Waterville. She has conducted ethnographic and archival...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 220–228.
Published: 01 March 2019
... I am most committed to asking. But I researched Freedom’s Mirror , consciously, as if it could. Sometimes, fleetingly, the archive came through. In 1806, Haitian-born Estanislao, a leader of a conspiracy on the plantation where he was held as a slave, confessed to his role in the plot...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 263–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and public scholar and associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York. His research interests include social movements in Guyana and the Caribbean, archival research and projects, and the history and content of the newspaper press in Guyana. K erry W hite...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
... similarities. 4 Mary Turner applauded Sheller's “bold effort to cut across the entrenched historiographical tradition of national and regional based Caribbean studies.” 5 Indeed, Sheller's book is one of relatively few comparative monographs on Caribbean history based on research in the archives of two...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 131–142.
Published: 01 March 2023
... another stitch in the archival loom that Joseph-Gabriel presents. Comhaire-Sylvain’s 1960s research dates intersect with Blouin’s time in both the French and Belgian Congo and the publication of Blouin’s My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria . Additionally, Kéita’s Femme d’Afrique...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 87–99.
Published: 01 March 2023
... in the Netherlands. In 2017, for example, The Black Archives conducted research on the story of the Huiswouds. Hermina Huiswoud was born in Guyana, migrated to New York, and became active in the Black communist network. Based on the research, an exhibition was developed to make the “erased history” more visible...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
... into the orbit of scholarship. She has also noted that the evolving scholarship on Kongo identities as well as new archival databases and publications were important for her research. 21 Deeply multidisciplinary (or perhaps, more accurately, alert to the ways in which disciplinary boundaries have undermined...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 74–87.
Published: 01 July 2013
... beyond the locality of the incident. But the initial research lead was also beyond Cuban shores: a book published in Jamaica with a fleeting mention of a “massacre of several Jamaican workers” in Jobabo. Moreover, the initial archival source appeared neither in Cuba nor in Jamaica but in the National...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2008
... research, and by that I mean a critical reading of the archive that mimes the
figurative dimensions of history, I intended both to tell an impossible story and to amplify the
impossibility of its telling. The conditional temporality of “what could have been,” according
to Lisa Lowe, “symbolizes aptly...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 98–108.
Published: 01 July 2023
... that romanticization has its rhetorical, political, and ontological function in the making of Black life and resistance). Through meticulous field research—interviews with descendants, archival research, and a facility with Yoruba—Warner-Lewis sketches out fuller pictures of who some of us were and how we had come...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 55–71.
Published: 01 March 2014
... through archival research and bringing the dramatic origins of Haiti to a larger audience. James highlighted the importance of the Haitian example to the region when he wrote that “in the nineteenth century the decisive patterns of Caribbean development took form in Haiti.” 16 For James Haiti occupied...
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