... 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...

... 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...

... 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 of...

... © Marvin Bartley 90  |  christianity’s catastrophic gift 35 • July 2011 • Marvin Bartley  |  91 River Styx, the Arrival of Christopher Columbus, 2011. Digital photograph. 92  |  christianity’s catastrophic...

...Christopher Cozier Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Available At All Leading Stores! Christopher Cozier From my notebook: 28/06/06 (A collaboration with curator Andrea Fatona from “Reading the Image: Poetics of the Black Diaspora” currently touring Canada). Curator Andrea Fatona...

...? Where were they when they died? Were they in a building? Were they outside? Who was with them? Were they alone? Were they from Tivoli Gardens? If they weren't, where were they from? Did they have guns, the same as the police and the soldiers? What was their connection to Christopher “Dudus” Coke? Did...

...David Scott Small Axe Incorporated 2003 small axe a caribbean journal of criticism EDITOR: DAVID SCOTT ASSOCIATE EDITORS Anthony Bogues, Nadi Edwards, Annie Paul EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE Charles Carnegie, Christopher Cozier, Glyne Griffi th, Patricia Mohammed, Faith Smith...

... 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 of...

... characters' financial records. Chariandy's narrator seems owed for the many losses that define his life. Instead, he is presented with an unexpected and disturbing bill. It comes from Mrs. Christopher. A fellow member of Caribbean Canadian diaspora, Mrs. Christopher was Adele's friend; in the narrator's...

... generative for this form of inquiry. Thus Rose Réjouis's philosophical navigation from bricolage to décalage , Tzarina Prater's and Christopher Ian Foster's readings of fiction and poetry, Christopher Winks's analysis of explosive French hip-hop lyrics, Edward Sammons's discussion of Middle Rock's aborted...

... archaeologist exhuming elements from the past, that of my personal and collective memory. I was overcome by nostalgia, nostalgia for times past. Cer- tain pieces had as titles The Laurels Are Cut . . . , If Christopher Columbus . . . , His Name of small axe 30 • November 2009 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-2009...

... Reading of the Anglophone Caribbean Authors Naipaul, Brathwaite, and Walcott.” christopher cozier is an artist and writer living and working in Trinidad. He has participated in a number of regional and international exhibitions focusing on contem- porary art. Since 1989 he has published a range of...

... Bernard, Lester Redhead, Christopher Stroude, Hudson Austin, Liam James, Leon Cornwall, John Ventour, Dave Bartholomew, Ewart Layne, Colville McBarnette, Selwyn Strachan, and Cecil Prime. Phyllis Coard was not named because she had been granted leave in 2000 to seek medical treatment in...

... 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...

..., Christopher Cozier, Albert Chong, Annalee Davis, Osaira Muyale, Winston Branch, Ernest Bréleur, Alexandre Arrechea, Belkis Ramírez, Jorge Pineda, Pascal Meccariello, Charles Juhász-Alvarado, and Mario Benjamin. Special thanks as well to Susana Moralo and Rocío Nicolás Blanco from MEIAC in Badajoz. This essay...

... the principles of colonialism, and of any apologetics for its deeds, serves as a good introduction to his other plays, The Tragedy of King Christophe and A Season in the Congo, which examine the implacable distortions that often follow struggles for decolonization and sometimes...

.... Her work has appeared on the cover of Small Axe (March 2014); in See Me Here: A Survey of Contemporary Self-Portraits from the Caribbean , from Robert and Christopher Publishers (2014); and in The Star Side of Bird Hill , by Naomi Jackson (2015). K eisha S carville is a photo and mixed-media...

...Christopher Cozier Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Terrastories (notes) Christopher Cozier Terrastories is very much a project in process. It began in Copenhagen in 2002. It was an outdoor public work with three parts. Th e fi rst two parts were fenced-in enclosures. Th e fi rst...

...Nicole Awai Small Axe Incorporated 2007 E-mail from “HERE” Nicole Awai Christopher Cozier and I started an e-mail conversation in 2002. The following is a response to Christopher’s question, “Where are you in your head now?” This ongoing e-mail conversation between Christopher and...

... increasingly to realize that the history that Vigie and the Morne represented was not his history, so his need to fill the growing void increased. What he has called the “fever for heroic examples” 25 turned him toward the Haitian Revolution and his first important play, Henri Christophe . Explaining the...