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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... historicity to the black population, ever unproblematically yield `black history'? Can black histories ever be built on fragile postcard infrastructures?” Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Caribbean Subjectivity and the Colonial Archive Beth Fowkes Tobin Ab s t r a c t : This essay takes up...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 53–66.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and are now held in France. Examining the history of this archive that stands as a metaphor for Swedish colonial amnesia, this essay discusses the reluctance in Sweden to recognize a past that goes against a self-image untainted by slavery and colonialism. The essay also discusses a project that aims to open...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Najnin Islam A discourse of care undergirded colonial political rationality during the era of Indian indenture-ship in the Caribbean. In this essay the voyage of the Salsette from Calcutta to Trinidad in 1858 serves as an entry point into a broader conversation on the repeated archival invocation...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of Caribbean Chinese familial intimacies from the colonial archive. Engaging shared themes of migration and racialized ideas of reproduction, three contemporary diasporic visual artists—Albert Chong, Richard Fung, and Tomie Arai—mine oral histories and family archives to blend aural and visual narratives...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 169–181.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Krista A. Thompson Are there intrinsic and unique ways of representing the “visual atmospherics” of the Caribbean? Might phenomenological studies of embodied perception offer insight into distinct forms of Caribbean visuality? How would contrapuntal interpretations of colonial archives result...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 198–203.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in a constant struggle with and against the colonial archive. It poses questions about the possibilities and limits of developing alternative ways for narrating racialized lives into being. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 colonial archives classification black diaspora radical pedagogy When she...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 69–84.
Published: 01 March 2022
... through its archival system and selective memory commodification. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 colonial archives francophone literature French Caribbean history memory Daniel Maximin In 2020 and 2021, protestors and activists in many parts...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
Published: 01 July 2022
... identities being overwritten by a coolie picturesque. The illusion of self-contained Indian villages in the photographic archive is informed by, even as it reinforces, a colonial requirement of the separation of the races. For working against a colonial logic of racial segregation, I deploy Viranjini...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
...SJ Zhang This essay proposes the historical term simarrona (used in colonial Louisiana archives) as a heuristic for unlearning certain reading practices of the term maroon and its persistent “etymology plot.” Simarrona not only troubles the neat linguistic geographies of the term maroon...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
... is particularly interesting for its mask-like form; behind the shopkeeping minutiae lurks a journal, a secret space of female agency and interiority.” 21 Though complex archival documents, these women's domestic ledgers prove easy to overlook. What, then, is the importance of representing colonial history...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
...” rather than viewing archives as “things”: “It looks to archives as epistemological experiments rather than as sources, to colonial archives as cross-sections of contested knowledge.” 1 This essay focuses on the 2004 multimedia installation Ghosting , by Guyanese British artist Roshini Kempadoo; I...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 116–131.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of a postcolonial Caribbean intellectual history raises complicated ques tions for historians. What role does intellectual history play for postcolonial nations? How do we wrest control of our history from colonial frameworks, methods, and archives? How do we transcend the metropole-colony paradigm in order...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Heather V. Vermeulen Surveyor, penkeeper, overseer, slaveowner, and landholder Thomas Thistlewood (1721–86) was a white English immigrant to British colonial Jamaica who lived there from 1750 until his death. Canonical readings of Thistlewood’s archive quarantine his intellectual pursuits from his...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
... only in terms set by violence. Finally, while Bahadur engages infrastructures of colonial violence that positioned the “coolie” as not a slave, this essay offers a cautionary note about reproducing archival investments in irreconcilable difference. It extends Bahadur’s own approach to revisit some...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
... on the afterlife of slavery, because the Caribbean comprises plantation, colonial, anticolonial, and neocolonial societies, it disrupts the binary between spaces of colonialism versus slavery. 10 As a result, this Jamaican archive delimits theorizing blackness as the single register: Caribbean more starkly...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2017
... shifted our gaze just a little earlier, if we looked at the archives that we have within the context of a concern with security? It will be my contention here that by foregrounding views of the colonial state toward Rastafari during the 1950s—views that were by no means unitary, based on information...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the possibility of disrupting and dismissing the authority of the US colonial regime. And in this way, her sensorial errancy, her unruliness, her refusal, become part of our archive, our community, and our imaginations. 1 See Harry Franqui-Rivera, Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 133–143.
Published: 01 November 2022
... be to distinguish the loss of interest, archives, and literatures from the loss of lives, homes, beaches, and forests, these iterations clearly stem from the same colonial relationship and thus mirror and impact each other in key ways. Just as Ballou speaks of these texts as “forgotten,” one might think...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the archival and scholarly invisibility of Black women’s contributions to decolonial movements because Black women’s responses to colonialism have historically been obfuscated, relegated to the periphery of their male comrades’ achievements and histories. By centering Black women as “political protagonists...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 123–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Shannon Alonzo This visual essay explores a fragment of the journey to know our ancestors in their absence. The pregnant silences of archives, skewed by years of historical erasure and the remnants of colonial legacy, so often obscure our walk toward collective belonging and a deeper understanding...
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