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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 30–54.
Published: 01 March 2022
...,” it situates the genre in broader conversation with the mass of bureaucratic and administrative writing in the colony by offering close readings of mémoires from Julien Raimond and André Rigaud. Though written for different purposes, these mémoires evince a shared formal and rhetorical strategy: they present...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 167–170.
Published: 01 October 2007
..., Democratic Futures (1997),
and the author of Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory
and the Sacred (2005). She is currently at work on two projects: one that continues writing
the life of Kitsimba (the character she develops in Pedagogies); the other examines...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 203–212.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Robert Fatton, Jr. The article is a critical examination of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's conceptualization of the Duvalierist regime as a form of totalitarianism. It argues that while the regime was a brutal and extreme form of dictatorship, it was not a totalitarian system. It lacked the bureaucratic...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 71–92.
Published: 01 September 2003
... attention has been given to his poetry.
Although Keane published fi ve collections in all, and a number of his poems have
ssmallmall been anthologized, wider recognition for his writing was not forthcoming until he won
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the Cuban Casa de las Americas prize for poetry in 1979...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 67–77.
Published: 01 July 2020
... clamors for climate justice and reparations in international forums, a foundational antagonism endures between the rentier ambitions of regional bureaucrats and the survival of Caribbean peoples. The necessity of a genuine regionalism does not elude Caribbean peoples themselves, however. As George...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 89–105.
Published: 01 March 2024
... taking a creative writing course in poetry, a history course on slavery, and a course in political sociology, among others, trying to weave together my humanist and social science interests. However, the political sociology course, taught by a Talcott Parsons student, was terribly dry and turned me off...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 14–31.
Published: 01 October 2008
... measure of freedom
for the vast majority of the Haitian nation.
No human community has ever needed a code, theory, or bureaucratic direction to begin
constructing an autonomous society.10 In contrast, the bureaucratic code of Polverel was aimed
precisely at crushing and regimenting all...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 129–145.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Leninist commitment to recuperative modernization. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 Marxism black Jacobinism In thinking about the legacy of Aimé Césaire today, about the reasons we return to his writings repeatedly in the present conjuncture, I wish to argue here that it is more than ever essential...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2016
... for Caribbean cultural-political transformation, Casa de las Américas is a transcendent institution. It belongs to an almost metaphysical order; it seems less a concrete, material form with all its attendant administrative routines and bureaucratic conflicts than the expression of an idea, a spirit...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Speech,” International Journal of the Sociology of Language , no. 233 (April 2015): 94. 57 Ibid., 73. 58 Jansen, “Ethnic Difference,” 94. Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 Hispaniola entanglement transnationalism Caribbean modernity difference contact The writing...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 50–65.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the formation of African political power. At the same time, Rodney’s position as a participant in political mobilization compels an approach to history writing that exceeds the terms of diagnosis. Examining the interplay between diagnosis and mobilization, this essay reveals the range of ways Rodney approached...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 112–132.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of the artist is the way in which land-
scape and imagery are considered. A “governing stasis of place and time” by which only
newspapers state the date and maps mark the bureaucrat’s zone of indiff erence houses
artists who mimic the newspaper’s drone, the bureaucrat’s canton. 1...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 120–128.
Published: 01 March 2005
...-
Btions regarding scholarly approaches to the black diaspora: “How do we begin to
understand diff erences within black communities? How do we defi ne and refi ne the
practice of writing African peoples into a history of overlapping diasporas?”1 Edwards
demonstrates, in this impressive work...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 159–166.
Published: 01 July 2023
... in the writings of thinkers from Marcus Garvey to Sylvia Wynter. animal studies animality sodomy queer theory Guadeloupe Andil Gosine © 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 [email protected] 10 Mimi Sheller, Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (Durham, NC: Duke...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... come from? His kind of trading across time zones is usually prohibited for professional historians. It is not there in his 1966 School of Oriental and African Studies doctoral thesis, “A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545–1800,” which inhabited the bureaucratic rationality of the Western-trained...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 106–114.
Published: 01 July 2016
...; it was launched at the 2015 IACSS Surabaya conference. This book project is a pioneering work of collaboration between South Asia and East Asia, in both its intellectual contents and its production process. The idea of an IACS joint PhD program has been difficult to implement, mainly owing to the bureaucratic...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 177–187.
Published: 01 November 2012
... is a remark-
able, brilliant, and vital work, one that breaks new ground both in terms of its object of study
and in the approach it takes to thinking about and with Haitian writing.1 It is a courageous
book, too. As any who have grappled with the works of Frankétienne, Jean-Claude Fignolé,
and René...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2014
... research to the broader question of what it means to write histories of the Caribbean. What fills the spaces of the most urgent silences in our ongoing dialogue between past and present? 27 And what are historians' responsibilities when, as in Haiti's case, there are grave implications to demanding...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2021
.... It analyzes “Le poème tué” graffiti by young Haitian poet Ricardo Boucher, along with murals by Jerry (Jerry Rosembert Moïse) and Francisco Silva, political graffiti about the PetroCaribe corruption scandal, and the writing and artwork on tap-tap buses, as emergent affects and ideologies about the art...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
Published: 01 July 2022
... to write this essay, I talked to my father about more details of this incident. My father recalled that notice of fallen soldiers via telegram was common in La Cantera, in part because only one functional phone existed in the neighborhood. More than sixty thousand Puerto Ricans served in the military...
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