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Silence and Specters: The British Empire and the 1904 Haitian Commemorations of Independence
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Jack Daniel Webb This essay examines contests over Haitian history between Haitian state actors and British observers—such as diplomats, travel writers, and “journalists”—around the time of Haiti’s commemorations of the centenary of independence in 1904. This was a time for the Haitian people...
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Rethinking Aimé Césaire: Presentation
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 86–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Eric Prieto This essay introduces the central themes of “Rethinking Césaire,” a special section of Small Axe , which gravitate in metacritical fashion around the various efforts to refashion Aimé Césaire's legacy in and around 2013, the centenary of his birth. Included are essays devoted...
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 1 Zuleira Soto-Román, Luisa café, en tela , 2021; mixed media. Art for the 2022 Editora Educación Emergente (EEE) commemorative series on the centenary of Luisa Capetillo’s death. Courtesy of EEE, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
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Beyond Antagonism: Otto and Hermina Huiswoud as Participants in Caribbean Radicalisms
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 124–139.
Published: 01 November 2024
... with Jamaica in particular, also anticipated Padmore and James’s emphasis upon enslaved resistance. The year 1933 in Britain was deemed the “Year of Wilberforce,” where celebrations to mark the centenary of both the death of Wilberforce and Britain’s Slavery Abolition Act valorized British emancipatory...
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After Indenture
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 63–67.
Published: 01 July 2017
... for greater contention with its traumatic legacy. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 visual art indentureship Indo-Caribbean This year marks the centenary anniversary of the end of the British indentureship program that brought Indians and others to the Caribbean, Fiji, and Mauritius, starting in the mid...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): v–x.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Aimé Césaire hoped Picasso would create a monument in commemoration of the
centenary of emancipation in 1949. Th e past and recent history of public monuments IIntroductionntroduction
highlights some of the larger predicaments and challenges about the production and
discourse of art in the island...
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Edouard Glissant: The Poetics of Risk
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 102–107.
Published: 01 November 2011
... to Victor Segalen, Michel Leiris was interested in the Caribbean and the way
in which the clash of cultures did not lead to entropy but new orders of difference. Invited to
Martinique by Aimé Césaire in 1948, the centenary of the abolition of slavery, Leiris visited
both Martinique and Haiti. Before...
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Walking Duermevelas with Luisa
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 98–111.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Figure 1 Zuleira Soto-Román, Luisa café, en tela , 2021; mixed media. Art for the 2022 Editora Educación Emergente (EEE) commemorative series on the centenary of Luisa Capetillo’s death. Courtesy of EEE, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico ...
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Introduction: Literature and the State in Nancy Morejón
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 83–90.
Published: 01 July 2021
... centenary, Nación y mestizaje enacts in its study of the poetry and prose of that major Cuban author a criticism that recognizes the aesthetic and social pressures generated by—and bearing upon—works of verbal art, even as it cuts against such a critical practice with doctrinaire statements about...
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Rereading Aimé Césaire: Negritude as Creolization
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 121–128.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... What that response says is that Negritude is creolization. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 Negritude Senghor essence existence creolization Sartre It is time that we reread Negritude literature afresh, and our celebration of Aimé Césaire's centenary offers an excellent opportunity to start...
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Calibán : Roberto Fernández Retamar's American Intelligence
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 115–122.
Published: 01 November 2016
... into the venerable debate about Latin American identity framed by the characters in The Tempest , a debate that had been ignited in the essay Ariel (1900) by the Uruguayan intellectual José Enrique Rodó, the centenary of whose birth fell precisely in that summer of 1971. 6 The genius of Fernández Retamar's...
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On the History and Historiography of Banking in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 22–37.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Centenary, Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial, and Overseas), 1836–1936 (Plymouth: Mayflower, 1938); and Margaret Ackrill and Leslie Hannah, Barclays: The Business of Banking, 1690–1996 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). 27 On Stephen Girard and Saint-Domingue, see John Bach McMaster...
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Luisa Capetillo and the Counter-Republic of Letters
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 112–120.
Published: 01 November 2022
... for Capetillo, the editors of Justicia noted, “Others will continue her work.” 37 And they were correct. Scholars, activists, and general audiences are still drawn to Capetillo’s work and are in active dialogue with her ideas. To commemorate the centenary of her death this year, Puerto Rico’s Editora...
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The Problem of Liberal Empire Reconsidered
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 167–177.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the island to any other country.” 3 The call for democratic self-government was directed at the “internal affairs” of the West Indies rather than cutting ties with the British Empire. For James, imperial membership was intimately tied to emancipation. Celebrating the centenary of abolition, he argued...
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Interdependence and Intertextuality in Lyonel Trouillot's Bicentenaire
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 42–52.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., antiheroic process takes place in
Lyonel Trouillot’s Bicentenaire (2004), a short, intense novel set during the student protests
that marked the beginning of the centenary year, and which takes its hero, quite literally, from
4. Maximilien Laroche, “La Lutte du héros contre sa...
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Revolutionary Genealogies: Suzanne Césaire's and Christiane Taubira's Writings of Dissent
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 91–101.
Published: 01 November 2015
...: A Symposium in Honor of the Centenary of Aimé Césaire's Birth,” University of California, Santa Barbara, 30 May 2014. See also Diagne's “Rereading Aimé Césaire: Negritude as Creolization,” this issue of Small Axe , 121–28. 5 Although I am unable to discuss their instrumental work in this essay...
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Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman : Intimacies, Proximities, Relationalities
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., for the centenary anniversary, collapsed earlier this year while still under construction. 1 We might see in this the weight of history, a sense that the meaning of arrival is not settled, or perhaps that it is not its inauguration but rather the end of the system of indentureship that brought Indians...
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Lezama Lima’s “Julián del Casal”: A New Aesthetics of Reception and Failure for Postrevolutionary Times
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 155–166.
Published: 01 November 2019
... to the archive. As recounted in the preface to the 1963 Centenary edition of Casal’s complete prose works, Prosas , Lezama Lima had acquired permission from Casal’s sister, Carmela, to review his papers and publish his letters, a project that was somehow never realized. 21 Lezama Lima’s essay, however, may...
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Stuart Hall's Ethics
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2005
... conception of ideology. First published in 1983 as part
of a volume commemorating the centenary of Marx’s death, the essay constituted a
strategic intervention not only into the particular moment of cultural-politics in Brit-
ain (the early Th atcher years) but also into the theoretical...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): v–xvi.
Published: 01 June 2008
...: seven volumes
(1–7) devoted to the American series, two (9–10) to the African series (volume 8 is still in production), and a
volume to mark the Garvey Centenary in 1987 (Marcus Garvey: Life and Lessons). A total of five volumes will be
devoted to the Caribbean series: three volumes...
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