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Empire of Freedom, Kingdom of Civilization: Henry Christophe, the Baron de Vastey, and the Paradoxes of Universalism in Postrevolutionary Haiti
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Revolution, which was followed by Jean-Jacques Dessalines's establishment of an “empire” and the kingdom of Henry Christophe, show the profound antinomies of the discourse of universalism. Beginning with a reading of Haiti's founding documents in light of the political thought of Etienne Balibar and Hannah...
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PetroCaribe stencil with crying girl, by Francisco Silva, Christophe Avenue...
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in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 7 PetroCaribe stencil with crying girl, by Francisco Silva, Christophe Avenue, Port-au-Prince, 2020. Photograph by Adler Pierre
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PetroCaribe stencil with a noose, by Francisco Silva, Christophe Avenue, Po...
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in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 8 PetroCaribe stencil with a noose, by Francisco Silva, Christophe Avenue, Port-au-Prince, 2020. Photograph by Adler Pierre
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Oceans Apart
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 41–49.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the juxtapositions of various voices this work examines how the legacy of black families in the Caribbean connects with the stories of European maritime `hero's, such as Frances Drake, Christopher Columbus, Walter Raleigh and James Cook. Images of state sanctioned and educational authorities are placed alongside...
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Edouard Glissant and the Art of Memory
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 25–36.
Published: 01 November 2009
... considering postcolonial issues. A number of key commemorative dates over the past two decades have set the scene for a re-visioning of French and francophone history - 1992 was the 500 th anniversary of the new world's “discovery” by Christopher Columbus, 1998 was the 150 th anniversary of the abolition...
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Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 1–23.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Jennifer Baez When Christopher Columbus’s human remains were discovered in a lead box inside Santo Domingo’s Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in 1877, Santo Domingo City Hall proposed commissioning a statue and a mausoleum. The Columbus statue featured an india , or a Native woman...
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Mine the Ruins
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Petal Samuel This review essay explores the extent to which the phenomenon of imperial “neglect” proposed in Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (2018) maintains saliency in the wake of national independence throughout the British Caribbean...
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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
...Adom Getachew This review essay situates Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (2018) in the context of the two-decade-long debate about the emergence of a liberal imperialism during the nineteenth century. Through an examination of the political...
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Columbus Park (originally Plaza de Armas) in the early 1900s, Santo Domingo...
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in Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 5 Columbus Park (originally Plaza de Armas) in the early 1900s, Santo Domingo. From Sara Agnes Ryan’s Christopher Columbus in Poetry, History, and Art (1917)
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“Return the funds so that Haitians can truly live like humans.” PetroCaribe...
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in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 10 “Return the funds so that Haitians can truly live like humans.” PetroCaribe graffiti, unknown artist, Christophe Avenue, Port-au-Prince, 2020. Photograph by Adler Pierre
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The bronze and marble Columbus mausoleum (1897–98) designed by Ferran Romeu...
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> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 2 The bronze and marble Columbus mausoleum (1897–98) designed by Ferran Romeu and Pere Carbonell, in the cathedral. Image from Sara Agnes Ryan’s Christopher Columbus in Poetry, History, and Art (1917).
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 63–65.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Christopher Cozier Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Available At All Leading Stores!
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From my notebook: 28/06/06 (A collaboration with curator Andrea Fatona from “Reading
the Image: Poetics of the Black Diaspora” currently touring Canada).
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Amortizing Memory: Debt as Mnemonic Device in Caribbean Canadian Literature
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
... loss are necessitated in Soucouyant , where memory's value lies in its ability to inform ethical behavior from both Chariandy's narrator and his readers. In contrast, the exchange between Chariandy's narrator and Mrs. Christopher brings little catharsis from the injustices at play within...
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Taking Possession: Symbols of Empire and Nationhood
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2002
... presuming a universal appeal
as a message of peace,¹ is in one sense similar to Christopher Columbus’s voyage
Tacross the Atlantic fi ve hundred years earlier² (see fi gure 1). Both journeys signaled the
discovery of a new world and initiated the transportation of ideologies and practices...
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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
... d’un retour au pays natal and the play, La Tragédie du Roi Christophe, Toussaint is an important transitional work in Césaire’s oeuvre, one that has only recently received the attention it deserves. The historiographical and literary modes of the essay allow Césaire to work through the Haitian...
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Beyond Trouillot: Unsettling Genealogies of Historical Thought
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 132–154.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., particularly during the reign of King Henry Christophe. This makes Ti dife boule , as Trouillot acknowledged in Silencing the Past , the first history of the Haitian Revolution written and published in Haitian Creole (55–56). For Trouillot, this longitudinal exploration of the past of Haiti’s revolutionary...
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Blending with Motifs and Colors: Haitian History Interpreted by Édouard Duval Carrié
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 109–123.
Published: 01 September 2005
... recognize that skewing the central perspective lends the event depicted
antian eccentric greatness that destroys by horror the normality of a seemingly realistic Hai-
background. Hector Hyppolite’s portrait of Henri Christophe (see fi gure 2) did not
meet the criteria of taste...
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The Problem of the Hero(ine) in Caribbean History
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 26–45.
Published: 01 March 2011
... was invited to introduce a play written by a Mona undergraduate, Derek Walcott, that examined the life of a grander style of hero: Henri Christophe, the cultured and ruthless president and king of Haiti from 1806 to 1820. The 1 Harold Drayton, personal communication, February 2004. Springer is today...
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Rethinking the “Transnational” Caribbean Curatorial: Politics of Space in “Caribe insular: Exclusión, fragmentación y paraíso”
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 1–19.
Published: 01 November 2016
... conditioning, “Caribe insular” sketched, nevertheless, a new conceptualization for the large-scale Caribbean art shows of the 2000s. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 34 In preparing this essay, I interviewed the following artists: Alexandre Arrechea, Winston Branch, Ernest Bréleur, Albert Chong, Christopher...
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In the Penumbra of the Antillean Hallucination
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 1–20.
Published: 01 July 2017
... St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child on his back and so named the island “St. Christopher.” 6 With his eyes and his dreams crossed, Columbus managed to see the Queen of Spain and the Judeo-Christian God everywhere, and so he pointed and called out names from the captaincy of this cyclopia...
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