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Colonization, Creolization, and Globalization: The Art and Ruses of Bricolage

Wendy Knepper
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 70–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-70
Published: 01 October 2006
...Wendy Knepper Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Colonization, Creolization, and Globalization: The Art and Ruses of Bricolage Wendy Knepper Antillean art is this restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archipelago becoming a synonym for pieces...
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Memories of Colonization: The Kidd Diptychs, 1995/2008

David Boxer
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 157–169.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2008-012
Published: 01 March 2009
...David Boxer Artist project. Small Axe Incorporated 2009 Memories of Colonization: The Kidd Diptychs, 1995/2008 David Boxer small axe 28 • March 2009 • DOI 10.1215/07990537-2008-012 © 2009 David Boxer 158  |  Memories of Colonization: The Kidd Diptychs, 1995/2008 River...
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Inaugural banquet in honor of Pueblos Hispanos , Commodore Hotel, New York...

Inaugural banquet in honor of Pueblos Hispanos , Commodore Hotel, New York...

in Puerto Rican Colonialism, Caribbean Radicalism, and Pueblos Hispanos ’s Inter-Nationalist Alliance > Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 3 Inaugural banquet in honor of Pueblos Hispanos , Commodore Hotel, New York City, 21 February 1943. Guests included Jesús Colón, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Clemente Soto Velez, Vito Marcantonio, Thyra Edwards, Charles Collins, and Pablo Neruda. Box OS_IX, folder 13, the Jesús Colón Papers More
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On Bankers and Empire : Racial Capitalism, Antiblackness, and Antiradicalism

Charisse Burden-Stelly
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604586
Published: 01 July 2020
...Charisse Burden-Stelly This essay offers a critical engagement with historian Peter James Hudson’s groundbreaking text Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean . It begins with an analysis of Hudson’s detailed account of the entanglements of the internationalization of US banking...
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Dark Finance, Dark People

Brenda Gayle Plummer
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604598
Published: 01 July 2020
...Brenda Gayle Plummer This discussion of Peter James Hudson’s Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean focuses on the way transnational banks are revealed to be players of multiple roles in the development of past and present Caribbean economies. The banks were hardly mere...
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Rogue Bankers, Black Radicalism, and the Caribbean History of Racial Capitalism

Peter James Hudson
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 197–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604610
Published: 01 July 2020
...Peter James Hudson This essay offers a response to two critical commentaries—from diplomatic historian Brenda Gayle Plummer and political theorist Clarisse Burden-Stelly—on the author’s Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean . While locating both commentaries under...
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Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures

Mimi Sheller
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384360
Published: 01 July 2021
... tradition, saving us from our own alienation, colonization, and ambivalence. This essay takes inspiration from Beyond Coloniality to respond to the climate-political-social-cultural crisis in the Caribbean and to think through the possibilities for futurity in relation to reparative justice and ecological...
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Everything Slackens in a Wreck

Andil Gosine
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901696
Published: 01 July 2022
... of three wreckages: the ship landings of European colonizers and the arriving ships of enslaved and, later, indentured peoples. Figure 11 Kelly Sinnapah Mary, from Notebook of No Return 10: Childhood of Sanbras , 2021. Mixed media, 23 × 26 × 36 cm. Photograph by the artist; used by permission...
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Constructing a Nation: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place

Corinna McLeod
Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 77–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-1-77
Published: 01 February 2008
... interrogating the tourists' perspective and unraveling the continuing colonizing construction of a place legitimized only by its visitors. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Constructing a Nation: Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place Corinna McLeod Ab s t r a c t : Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place...
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The Stranger's Work

Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 90–97.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2008-008
Published: 01 March 2009
...Robert F. Reid-Pharr The Stranger's Work reads Hazel Carby's Reconstructing Womanhood into a critical tradition that considers the awkwardness and “outsider” status of Western intellectuals, particularly those who take up the subjects of diaspora and colonization. With special emphasis on C.L.R...
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Introduction: On History and Justice

Melanie J. Newton
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 1–6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642719
Published: 01 March 2014
... in struggles for legal justice. At the same time, these three legal cases exemplify how forced labor and colonization practices remain lived realities, complicating efforts to translate historical analysis into legal redress. The Moloch tropical street vendor's punch line (“But what will be left...
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Translation and Transculturation in the New York–Hispanic Caribbean Borderlands

Laura Lomas
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726758
Published: 01 November 2016
...Laura Lomas Scholars of Caribbean and translation studies alike are indebted to Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz for bringing into focus the multidirectional vectors of influence in the wake of colonization in his Contrapunteo de tabaco y azucar ( Cuban Counterpoint: Tobacco and Sugar...
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The Blue Savannahs of Memory: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes

Elizabeth Duchanaud
Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2010-018
Published: 01 November 2010
...Elizabeth Duchanaud With the traditional parameters of what constitutes history and historical event as alienating as colonization itself for the francophone Caribbean, Edouard Glissant argues to historicize alienation by plotting new forms of resistance against domination and oppression, forms...
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The Science-Fictional Caribbean: Technological Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber and Beyond

Kate Perillo
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 1–17.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985642
Published: 01 July 2018
... societies. Hopkinson utilizes more explicitly sciencefictional tropes of extraplanetary colonization and cybernetics to explore how technologies carry the potential to serve both (neo) colonial and anticolonial ends. Midnight Robber demonstrates how colonial and anticolonial notions of “progress” similarly...
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Ancestral Coda

Suzanne C. Persard
Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 80–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703305
Published: 01 July 2019
...—whether through grammar, digitization, or death. Yet there remains an abiding desire to explode the beauty of (extra)ordinary moments and scenes. Diasporic and hyperlocal, these poems entangle language(s), archives, and memory to map constellations of identities formed and complicated by colonization...
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On Slavery, Césaire, and Relating to the World: An Interview with Patrick Chamoiseau

Maeve McCusker
Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 74–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-028
Published: 01 November 2009
..., and this is our conceptual starting point. Within this American creolization there are major structural bridges: the genocide of the American Indians, the slave trade, the process of colonization forged in the matrix of the plantation. Of course there were the great American plantations...
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Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure

Jennifer Baez
Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583376
Published: 01 November 2021
..., “Illtre. Y Esdo. / Varon / Dn Cristoval Colon” (“Illustrious and Enlightened / gentleman / Christopher Columbus”). 31 Although it was deployed by some Spanish Caribbean intellectuals to lobby for Pan-Caribbean unity, Indigenismo, as a Dominican state-sponsored ideology, emerged from and promoted...
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The Importance of Being Cultural: Nationalist Thought and Jagan's Colonial World

Nalini Persram
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 82–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-82
Published: 01 March 2004
... and backwardness about the colonized, even as it maintains the cultural dichotomies of the discourse of Orientalism through its mythologization of origins and reifi cations of tradition. Signifi cantly, it draws upon Enlightenment notions of (national) identity and (political) autonomy. Th e dialectic...
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LIMBO: The Collective Unconscious

Elizabeth Colomba
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 223–226.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2379036
Published: 01 November 2013
... in. Dyonisus, 2013. Oil on canvas, 12 in × 12 in. The challenge is to define the sum of two histories, and reconcile each its origin and becoming. Having lost her native cultural source, the colonized is bound to embrace the culture of the “Mother Country.” This dual self-perception engenders...
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George Lamming's Literary Nationalism: Language between The Tempest and the Tonelle

Nadi Edwards
Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-59
Published: 01 March 2002
... to the pervasive and inevitable dynamic of confrontation between colonizer and colonized, master and slave, European and non- European others (Amerindian, African, Asian). For Lamming, the conceptual metaphor is that of Shakespeare’s e Tempest; hence, the confl ict between Prospero...
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