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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Shirley Tate Reading Heading South as a decolonial romance reveals anxiety about the liminal location of young male citizens in 1970s Haiti caught within the necropower of state terror and US imperialism. Focusing on young men selling “romance” on the beach within the continuing colonial relations...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and complicate easy categories and taxonomies. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 marronage flight land security colonial terror surveillance Maroon Discussions of questions of security and insecurity have often been oriented around the present. This focus on the present is in many ways...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 162–177.
Published: 01 November 2014
... with the colonial mind” (215) and the illusory nature of any openings the law might appear to offer those whom it dispossesses. Emblematic of colonial terror, “la[ying] bare the realities of slave law and slave justice in San Domingo,” in C. L. R. James's words, the Lejeune case was prompted by the notoriously...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
...-capitalist armed economic terrorism as democracy?” (101). Santiago Muñoz’s films “pay attention”— listen —with images-sounds that not only break but perform a diversion ( détour ), in Édouard Glissant’s sense, of the coordinates of the sense of modernity/coloniality. Sensorial errancy in her films enacts...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 193–199.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Colin Dayan This essay brings law more fully into the rituals of terror, the fictions of slavery that Brown portrays so powerfully in * The Reaper's Garden. * In tracking the ghost-ridden traces of persons and property, I consider how palpable and visible remain the deposits of slave history, how...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
.../gender/class is ongoingly actualized as the experimental terrain where Puerto Ricanness is rehearsed as indebted subjectivity. To clearly name this ground as anti-Black centers “sheer terror as a mode of subjection.” 4 That is, the hierarchical tenets of coloniality rest, and are even contingent...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... aboard the ship. The legal document Gregson v. Gilbert , which deems the murder of humans the loss of “property,” is dismembered and refigured across the pages of the elegy in a response to colonial terror from which a new articulation of remembrance and breath emerges. 2 MNP: I am interested...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 40–51.
Published: 01 September 2005
... ourselves was born. From it we have our torturers. Th ey torture before
34. Scharfman, “Th eorizing Terror,” 214.
35. Hoff mann,“Th e Image of Woman in Haitian Poetry,” 107.
36. Chauvet, Amour, Colère et Folie, 285.
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they slaughter. It is a colonial heritage that we...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in original). I also discuss this obituary in Colonial Phantoms (84–85). 21 Calvin Warren, Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018), 35, 39. 20 Aimé Césaire, “Le verbe marronner,” in The Collected Poetry , trans. and ed. Clayton...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., and it forms the backbone
of a truly bipolar political tradition where an irrepressible aspiration to concrete freedom, self-
rule, and full citizenship rights has been continuously at odds with an abominable tendency
towards organized terror in the defense of the nation and, at times, even the colony...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2014
...-practical concern for those made into unpersons by the law and the work of “imagining what can't be verified.” 35 Dayan, “Legal Terrors,” 64. 36 Dayan, “Held in the Body,” 225–26. 37 Colin Dayan, “Cruel and Unusual: The End of the Eighth Amendment,” Boston Review , 7 October 2004...
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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...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 149–159.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., intellectual, geographical, and geopolitical specificity of the Caribbean.
Torres-Saillant offers much for Caribbeanists to admire, applaud, laud, and venerate: the
centrality of Hispaniola in the colonial, revolutionary, abolitionist, and twentieth-century
transformations...
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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 (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 (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2024
... experimentation, regulation, and control; through forms of containment, tactics of terror, and explicit violence. 15 The forms of intensification in the Puerto Rican archipelago, in the Caribbean colony, point to a fundamentally anti-Black racial order. 16 For this reason, in Colonial Debts I rewrite...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 154–166.
Published: 01 October 2007
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into wrestling with its terror of Africa and the knowledge gaps such terror has produced. And
in the same spirit of the call for me to make explicit the erotic within pedagogy, Caribbean
feminism would have to wrestle with Spirit as an intimate part of women’s (“imagined”) lives...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 169–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
...: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020)—the crime of poverty—the essay explores how emerging anti–money laundering / combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regulatory policies are changing the terrain of struggle to recuperate and repudiate the devaluation of Black life in the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 179–190.
Published: 01 June 2008
... evocation of a dismal past, he has no qualms about permitting himself
the invocation of a history of terror, with the menacing Caribbean caudillo charting his path
of destruction across the centuries. He presents that violent Caribbean leader fully explained
with genealogy as well as etiology...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 98–111.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of the
Slave Trade in the West Indies.”2 Evidence included the “Secret Memorandum of 1803 from
Mr. John Sullivan of the Colonial Office to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the East
India Company,” in which the plan was explicitly outlined: “The events which have recently
happened at St. Domingo...
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