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Death and Prefiguration
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 83–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... It addresses Carnegie’s prescient interventions in relation to three canards of political philosophy—race-based notions of belonging, the centrality of secularism to modern notions of political community, and particular discourses of autonomy and self-determination. The author argues that what Carnegie shows...
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Patrick Chamoiseau and the Limits of the Aesthetics of Resistance
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 63–73.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Stella Vincenot This article shows how Patrick Chamoiseau's struggle against neocolonial forms of domination of Martinique is remarkably similar to French Regionalism, a movement fighting for political and cultural autonomy of the French Provinces in the early XXth Century. Given the fate of French...
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Erotic Synergies and Variances in the Sexual Vernacular of the Postcolonial Dutch Caribbean
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
... concludes with the 2021 Kambrada collective in Curaçao, which represents a movement toward autonomy and decolonization. It underscores the dynamic nature of the Dutch Caribbean sexual vernacular while questioning Western labels imposed on the region’s sexual cultures. [email protected] © 2024...
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Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2019
... inflected that music and to how that music inflected geopolitics. Reading the evolution of Jamaican music since independence, this essay reveals how the form of James’s novel replicates the spectral and shattered assemblages of dancehall music in order to borrow some of its fugitive, subaltern autonomy...
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Dark Finance, Dark People
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
... stalking horses for imperialism, and their considerable autonomy and self-interest were sometimes at odds with the objectives of both host governments and metropoles. They acquired a cosmopolitan character that allowed them to bypass particular national identities when convenient. Caribbean markets lay...
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Intuitive Art as a Canon
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 73–82.
Published: 01 October 2007
... an alternative to Primitive or Naïve. While its reliance on notions of purity and autonomy are unwittingly Primitivist, the concept has given legitimacy to the artists and allowed them to produce work that would otherwise never have existed. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Intuitive Art as a Canon
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A Loving Freedom: A Caribbean Feminist Ethic
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Tracy Robinson This essay explores the expansion of Jacqui Alexander's earlier concept of erotic autonomy through the motif of the Sacred in her new book, and her articulation of what could be described as a Caribbean feminist ethic that demands radical self-determination exercised within self...
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Crosses/Crossroads/Crossings
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Faith Smith This essay discusses Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing as framing an analysis of the curtailment of erotic autonomy in the United States and the Caribbean, the failures of liberal feminism and academia, and the propensity for military intervention, with an examination...
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When Is Poetry Political? Césaire on the Role of Knowledge in 1944
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2021
... for undertaking in 1945 a new literary and political trajectory. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 Tropiques war resistance philosophy autonomy Just over a month after Operation Dragoon (the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence), intellectuals from Europe, the United States...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., personal autonomy, and expressive radicalism at stake in CAM? Implied in the project of a movement, was there also a questioning of the larger assumptions of the institution of art embodied in the relation between the artist and postcolonial society, however inchoately, that CAM sought to engage...
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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
... for the region rooted in Black, Indigenous, and feminist—rather than patriarchal settler state—sovereignty. A crucial part of this endeavor entailed translating communal memory onto canvas and illuminating the significant, albeit curtailed, ways in which local forms of autonomy were always already present...
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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
... on the Dutch territories: “A lack of economic opportunities . . . and the complete autonomy accorded by the Netherlands government have removed from these countries the most popular planks in the political platforms of the Caribbean.” 63 Along that same line of thinking was the outlook on the Caribbean...
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Erotics in Medias Res: Topping Caribbean Studies from the Bottom?
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 159–168.
Published: 01 March 2015
... described, theorized, and offered visions of the many dimensions of intersectionality and situated knowledges and the dialectic tension of state power and “personal” (or, deeper still) spiritual self-possession and autonomy over the past twenty years. 1 Thanks to this work in transnational, Caribbean...
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Doing Comparative Caribbean (Gender) History: Puerto Rican and Belizean Working-Class Women, 1830s–1930s
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
... in an independent Caribbean nation, as in Haiti and Cuba, but rather the status of imperial subjects or colonial citizens, usually with extremely limited municipal or legislative autonomy. 27 This focus on freed people's claims to and struggles for a politically meaningful freedom coincided with a growing...
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Translative and Opaque: Multilingual Caribbean Writing in Derek Walcott and Monchoachi
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 90–106.
Published: 01 November 2014
... imperatives of colonialism, to explore a multilingual expression that subtly undermines the residual colonial hierarchies. In constructing an approach to autonomy that, so long in coming, is necessarily vulnerable in these fractious and diverse societies, translative expression provides a tentative...
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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
... and Brown), anticolonial resistance to claim autonomy from the current neoliberal government and corporate predators. The project aims to build a sustainable world in which the world’s multiple components are organized not in opposite binaries or hierarchies but in an antipatri-archal universe...
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Disciplining the Unruly (National) Body in Staceyann Chin's The Other Side of Paradise
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
... form.” 18 Importantly, the narrative represents the violence Chin experienced as a child to be as shocking as the homophobia she experiences as a young adult. If, as Jacqui Alexander has written, “women's sexual agency [and their] sexual and erotic autonomy have always been troublesome for the state...
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The Politics of Disjuncture, or Freedom from a Caribbean Point of View
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 184–192.
Published: 01 July 2017
.... That capacity arises from the politics of disjuncture. Marronage is a compelling language for labor activists, who see themselves as rebels working against a larger system and who see unions as something like maroon communities, that is, as spaces of autonomy (57). When labor activists give history seminars...
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Ordinary Sovereignty
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 152–165.
Published: 01 November 2013
... for not supporting greater autonomy from France. 22 One also often encounters a certain rebuke, particularly from residents and scholars of the independent Caribbean, who implicitly (and explicitly) suggest that these places have been shielded from the region's postcolonial predicament by remaining under...
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Césaire Reads Toussaint Louverture: The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Departmentalization
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2011
...- and twentieth-century French, British, and Haitian historiography.43 Césaire pours over speeches in metropolitan and colonial assemblies, documenting the planters quest for autonomy in the wake of the French Revolution and the inconsistent responses of legislators in France. He draws out the attempts of French...
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