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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 129–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Aaron Kamugisha “Black Metamorphosis,” Sylvia Wynter's unpublished manuscript of the 1970s, is premised on the idea that the black experience of coloniality is crucial to comprehending the history of the New World. This essay traces the idea of black experience in “Black Metamorphosis” through...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., they engage with the affect and entanglements of family photography to form a visual vocabulary of diasporic kinship. In doing so, the artwork—collages, documentaries, installations—interrogates the afterlife of the nineteenth-century European colonial experiment of Chinese indenture, designed to install...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... to the colonial experience. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Translated by Rachel O'Loan and Maeve McCusker On Slavery, Césaire, and Relating
to the World: An Interview with
Patrick Chamoiseau
Maeve McCusker
This interview took place on 10 May 2008, at the Maison Française, Oxford University...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and the geographies they inhabit. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Dominican American women mother-daughter relationships ghosts colonial experience sex work Although a year separates the publication of the debut novels by Dominican Americans Nelly Rosario...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 142–151.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the ghosts whisper about the racialized structures that distinctly shape the experience of black (not nonwhite) subjects. Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 race Frantz Fanon Dominican Republic racial epistemology fact of blackness Dixa Ramírez’s Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Nalini Mohabir; Ronald Cummings This interview provides a rich account of Frank Birbalsingh’s experiences from his early life in colonial British Guiana in the early part of the twentieth century to his continuing work as a literary scholar and critic in diaspora. What is also revealed...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 190–200.
Published: 01 July 2024
... to theorize both the logics of subjection that coloniality instantiates, and the “prefiguring” of a potential interruption in their operativity. Finally, it studies the experience of waiting as a particularly revealing determination of the temporality of colonial existence that is especially recurrent...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
... capital on the colony. Zambrana’s move here, the author asserts, then provokes her to name anti-Blackness as the foundation for the structural mechanisms (racial order) that sediment the ability to be an indebted subject, or at least experience an enclosure within the structural comfort of national...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Ronald Cummings This essay uses the concept of “Maroon in/securities” to refer to a number of creative practices of survival and a range of experiences and feelings that converge in the Maroon narrative. These two terms, when brought together, productively facilitate a dialogue between Maroon...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
... alternative practices of listening and soundmaking, they have marginalized black experience. Caribbean noise, formed out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, has been excluded from informing those alternative practices. The depths of sonic experience revealed by soundscapes of Kamau Brathwaite’s poetry...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., heterosexual, Hindu, and endogenous. Through disidentification, Khan's body becomes an archive of an alternative history and memory of the Indian experience and Afro-Indian/Asian intimacies that extend beyond the South African nation-state, which enables the “barely submerged histories of colonialism...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 26–38.
Published: 01 July 2009
... evolved in the context of current discussions of black cross-culturality and diaspora. New concerns have emerged about the relevance of US notions of race and blackness for describing the cultures, experiences, and identities of members of other diasporic populations. Also, gender and sexuality still...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 186–196.
Published: 01 July 2011
...—the ways in which the approaches to transnational engagement embedded within English colonialism are at once accepted, interrogated, or utilized by Caribbean public figures in the nineteenth century. As such, Smith's book provides a way for us to situate modern Caribbean studies within an intellectual...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... for capturing and comparing colonial and postcolonial experiences across the global South. 13 At the same time, it puts forward an epistemological challenge to discursive and material injustice—tantamount to arming African, and no doubt African-diasporic, readers with a knowledge necessary to wrest control...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 123–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
... that peripheral genres enable a glimpse of subaltern agency that often evades public discourse. The essay argues that unsanctioned speech forms get us closer to everyday experience, offer a more processual understanding of the unfolding of events, and enable a glimpse at embedded affect that is often occluded...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jennifer L. Morgan From the moment of its introduction into the Atlantic world, hereditary racial slavery depended on an understanding that enslaved women’s reproductive lives would be tethered to the institution of slavery. At the same time, few colonial slave codes explicitly defined the status...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
... never took him back to Caribbean women’s experiences” but short enough to move on to the work that Caribbean women have done (150–51). Fortunately, Kamugisha does turn in the last chapter of Beyond Coloniality to Sylvia Wynter’s monumental work. Like James, Wynter is experiencing something...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 20–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
... on the processual—how diasporic subjects are “made” and what happens when the histories of colonialism cannot contain what they have made. This essay reads Lowe as a figure who experiences both a loss of subjectivity and a reconstruction of a self, home, and history. © Small Axe, Inc. 2012 Transgender, Memory...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 125–137.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of privileged background, Cabrera is not Césaire, and her texts are not a reaction to the experience of colonialism. Just as Cabrera's translation of Cahier is a symbolic moment of encounter in the shaping of black internationalism in the Caribbean, in many ways it fails to move beyond the hopeful gesture...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 33–48.
Published: 01 July 2023
... relative irrelevance to Jamaican intellectual history than by a metropolitan conceit that governs his inscription into a British intellectual history in such a way as to occlude his specifically colonial experience—that reads him, in effect, exclusively in relation to the Windrush narrative. 22 Now...
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