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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 74–87.
Published: 01 July 2013
... happened)”—to refer to E. P. Thompson's dictum. It “happens” through the multidisciplinary and border-crossing research of the Caribbean establishing intra- and extraregional connections that enable the better understanding of Caribbean processes. The article begins by reviewing the ideas on the field...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., as population figures show—generated blurry sociocultural boundaries at the time and little scholarly attention since. As a result, significant swathes of experience are invisible in the cumulative historiography of Caribbean borderlands and border crossers. The essay points to pre-World War II migration to New...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): v–ix.
Published: 01 February 2006
... as well as nonfi ction,
poetry, interviews, visual art, and reviews.
Number 19 February 2006
CONTENTS
Crossing Borders of Language and Culture
Guest edited by Charles V. Carnegie and Samuel Martínez
Introduction
Reaching for the Border
Charles V. Carnegie...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Hilda Lloréns Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Dislocated Geographies:
A Story of Border Crossings
Hilda Lloréns
Sunrise of the fi rst day and the passengers were already acting as though they belonged to one family.
It was not long before we came to know each other’s life...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 59–77.
Published: 01 July 2011
... of women across these circuits, and what might such gendered journeys offer to discussions of Caribbean culture and identity? © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 Bustling across the Canada-US
Border: Gender and the
Remapping of the Caribbean
across Place
D. Alissa Trotz
The term transnational...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 276–286.
Published: 01 June 2006
..., is another story about blackness and
empire for another day.
11. Edwards, Practice of Diaspora, 11.
At the Borders Between:
A Reply to Critics
Michelle Stephens
I am profoundly grateful to Harvey Neptune and Belinda Edmondson for the conversation
they have initiated here, and to David...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Susan Mains Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Monumentally Caribbean:
Borders, Bodies, and Redemptive City Spaces
Susan Mains
Notwithstanding that radio, television and newspapers widely serve the island, we may not deceive
ourselves to think that very great numbers of Jamaicans...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 169–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Beverley Mullings This essay considers how the historical production of the Caribbean as a space of relative surplus populations is implicated in contemporary efforts to criminalize and contain flows of finance across its borders. Extending a key theme in Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... historical canon. As more than political activism, the guest editors examine Anton de Kom in this Small Axe platform for Caribbean thought with the hope that these essays will stimulate even more scholarship on De Kom’s life and work and on the Dutch Caribbean more broadly, beyond the borders of the Dutch...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 246–253.
Published: 01 November 2023
... developments of Black American and Caribbean literature that highlight the cross-cultural relevance of Edmondson’s analysis. Creole Noise is timely and useful in contributing positively to such matters as border disputes on Caribbeanness, with regard to regional and diasporic writing, and to challenges...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., and linguistic realities. Using Edward Said’s notion of worldliness , the essay argues that Cooper articulates this via three related tropes—noises, border clashes, and the vulgar body—that address the politics of Jamaican linguistic and cultural hierarchies. Cooper’s two groundbreaking publications, Noises...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 187–200.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Andil Gosine Through three short meditations that range from border crossing between the United States and Canada to a Beyoncé song, the author considers responses from Kedon Willis, Rajiv Mohabir, and Michelle V. Rowley to his 2021 book Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Maja Horn This introduction traces critical concerns in Dominican gender and sexuality studies in the United States. It suggests applying a triangulated lens to the study of gender and sexuality, focusing not only on Dominican-Haitian cross-border and colonial relations but also on the role of US...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Susan P. Mains The Caribbean has figured prominently in narratives of security, mobility, and transnational connections. Referred to as the “Third Border” in US foreign policies, and inhabiting contradictory geopolitical spaces between North and South America, the region also negotiates narratives...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2017
...” to reveal the “unspeakable contents” of creolization, nationalism, citizenship, and regionalism, all of which are brought into deep question by acts of psychic and political border control. 9 Derek Walcott, “What the Twilight Says,” in What the Twilight Says: Essays (London: Faber and Faber, 1998), 24...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of justice that defangs rebellious ancestors. Instead, Carnegie attends to the unsettled spatiotemporal logic of past struggle, as echoed by contemporary border transgressions of everyday archipelagic life. From this, the author reconsiders the spatiotemporality of land claims based on belonging “here...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 99–110.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., and linguistic borders of postcolonial literature. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 The Ambivalent Transnationalism
of a Literature-World—in French
Kaiama L. Glover
Like the diagnosis of an illness with regard to the doctor, the analysis of the manifesto is
empowering for the critic. The manifesto appeals...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 52–63.
Published: 01 November 2014
... celebrated for its multi-culturalism, Haitian linguistic plurality tends to be denied outright or disparaged as a characteristic of the exploitative members of the elite. Yet multilingual Haitians include not only those of the middle and upper classes but also those living along the border with the Dominican...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
... to reimagine the historical relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the author ultimately argues that Indiana signals a move toward a different way of being in the Dominican Republic, one in which the literal and figurative borders are porous enough to allow for the queer, for the female...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Silvio Torres-Saillant This essay sustains that to earn credibility as a field seeking academic identity de lege , Hispanic Caribbean studies must address the legacy of the colonial past that keeps people in the Antillean world from communicating productively across national borders and language...
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