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Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire: An Ecopoetic Theory of Caribbean Subjectivity
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 52–66.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Natalie Catasús While scholarship on Suzanne Césaire has illuminated the critical role of ecopoetics in her writing, the strong psychoanalytic resonances that underpin her theory of Caribbean aesthetics and identity remain underexplored. This essay suggests that these resonances must be read...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
... often assumed to be irrelevant to such critical conversations: Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land . He puts Césaire’s poem in dialogue with one of the three sketches produced by the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam for the 1943 Cuban translation of the Notebook —a drawing at once surrealist...
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 1 Wifredo Lam, Untitled , 1943; ink on paper. Illustration from Aimé Césaire, Retorno al país natal (1943). Courtesy of the Latin American and Caribbean Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
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Published: 01 March 2024
Figure 2 Wifredo Lam, Untitled , 1943; ink on paper. Illustration from Aimé Césaire, Retorno al país natal (1943). Courtesy of the Latin American and Caribbean Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Yohann C. Ripert This essay investigates a moment for Caribbean knowledge production in which intellectuals, gathered in Haiti in 1944 for an International Congress of Philosophy, questioned whether to politicize knowledge or to seclude it from politics. Focusing on Aimé Césaire’s “Poetry...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 102–120.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Carrie Noland After the death of Aimé Césaire in 2008, several Martinican writers published homages to the poet/statesman, indicating thereby their own place in the legacy he established. This essay studies one such homage, Patrick Chamoiseau's Césaire, Perse, Glissant: Les liaisons magnétiques, un...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 121–128.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Souleymane Bachir Diagne We need to reassess our reading of Negritude literature. Justice is not done to the literary, philosophical, and political movement founded by Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, and Léopold Sédar Senghor when it is simply considered an essentialist reversal of colonial...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 119–123.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Edouard Glissant ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 In Remembrance of Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire in dialogue with translators Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith, 12 June 1982.
Photograph taken by A. James Arnold in Césaire’s apartment in Paris. Permission granted...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 124–127.
Published: 01 October 2008
...F. Abiola Irele ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 Homage to Aimé Césaire
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In his book of interviews with Aimé Césaire, the filmmaker Patrice Louis designates him as
“un nègre fondamental.” It is a term that is entirely appropriate, calling...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 128–141.
Published: 01 October 2008
...A. James Arnold In a no-holds-barred review of his participation in the ongoing interpretation of Aimé Césaire's poetry and its relationship to the changing face of identity politics in France, the French West Indies, and the United States, the author highlights some particularly significant...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 125–137.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Emily A. Maguire In 1943, Cuban writer Lydia Cabrera published a Spanish translation of Aimé Césaire's poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land with illustrations by Cuban artist Wifredo Lam. The translation introduced the concept of Négritude to a Cuban and Spanish-language readership...
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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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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 129–145.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Nick Nesbitt This essay argues that Aimé Césaire remained committed to a nonaligned, tricontinental Marxism well beyond his resignation from the Parti Communiste Français in 1956. It describes this commitment positively in relation to “black Jacobinism” as well as the limitations of Césaire's...
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in From Louverture to Lenin: Aimé Césaire and Anticolonial Marxism
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2015
Front Image: Aimé Césaire, circa 1964; photographer, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier. Credit: Getty Images Left Image: Aimé Césaire, 22 December 1982; photographer, Pierre Guillaud. Credit: Getty Images
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Alexandra Perisic In 1935, while visiting his friend Petar Guberina in Dalmatia, Aimé Césaire saw an island by the name of Martinska (the equivalent of Martinique). Shocked by this discovery, he began writing his Notebook of a Return to the Native Land . While acknowledged, this Yugoslav connection...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 91–101.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Jennifer M. Wilks This essay positions Negritude thinker Suzanne Césaire (1915–66) as a cultural critic whose “writings of dissent” remain relevant both in the Caribbean of her birth and the Europe of her death. Although far-right politicians have argued for contemporary France's return to its...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel Suzanne Césaire's essays in Tropiques make an important intervention in imagining a new Martinican and ultimately Pan-Caribbean identity during World War II. This study examines Césaire's joint politics and poetics of liberation in the context of dissidence in Martinique...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
... by exploring some of the modes of intracultural translation used by the authors of the créolité movement but focuses on Ina Césaire's novel Zonzon tête carrée , where cultural difference is downplayed in favor of another approach to translation developed from an internal Caribbean perspective. Even though Ina...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 138–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Christopher Winks This essay explores the enduring relevance and challenges of Caribbean Négritude poetry, with specific emphasis on the work and thought of Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas. The decolonizing imperative that speaks through their work retains an agonic immediacy and political...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 131–142.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Grace L. Sanders Johnson This conversation piece celebrates Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel’s inspiring study Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (2020) through the parallel histories of the Martinican theorist Suzanne Césaire and the Haitian intellectual...
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