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Unruly Diasporas: Memory, Disaster, and Belizean Migration
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 63–80.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Nicole D. Ramsey This essay examines how memory and diasporic community formation serve as tools for Afro-Belizeans in the United States to preserve their histories amid colonial and postcolonial contexts and natural disasters. Utilizing autoethnography and testimonials from Belizean women...
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Assemblages of Experts: The Caribbean Court of Justice and the Modernity of Caribbean Postcoloniality
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 88–107.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of the burgeoning attempt to establish a regional constituency known as the “Caribbean Community.” 1 And while this judicial formation builds on earlier nationalist and panregional consolidation initiatives of the 1900s and 1960s, respectively, the establishment of the CCJ should be seen not as a mere outgrowth...
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Future Impossible Communities
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and radicalism than the ones concentrated on nation-state models. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 Caribbean Confederation West Indies Federation cultural nationalism community formation failed nationalisms colonialism 1 Kahlila Chaar-Pérez, “Revolutionary Visions? Ramón Emeterio...
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Inter-Asia Journal Work
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 106–114.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Kuan-Hsing Chen Journals have played a central role in the formation of intellectual communities throughout Asia since modern times. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies : Movements , launched in 2000, is no exception, except that it has attempted to connect with local intellectual circles and to build...
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Toward an Anthropology of the Caribbean State
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Rivke Jaffe This essay engages with Exceptional Violence and builds on Deborah Thomas's attention to state formation, statecraft, and political community to tentatively explore how “the state” has featured in Caribbean studies and what the role of Caribbeanist anthropologists has been and might...
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Diasporic Disciplining of Caliban? Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Intra-Caribbean Politics
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 149–159.
Published: 01 June 2008
... communities; it ignores the fact that there is not one Caribbean diaspora but many. Diasporas are fractured landscapes: not only oppressed individuals but also corrupt presidents and even petty but violent Calibans are part of out-migratory waves that constitute diasporic formations abroad, or form the long...
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The Audacity of Faith: Creole Recitations Explained
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 164–173.
Published: 01 July 2011
... colonial discourse. Through it, Thomas and other Afro-Caribbean intellectuals shaped the perception and material reality of their individual, ethnic, and national communities. © 2011 by Small Axe, Inc. 2011 BOOK DISCUSSION:
Faith Smith, Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation...
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Kith and Kin: The Making of Queer Communities
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 147–155.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of exclusion within Trinidadian society and its queer communities facilitate the women’s formation of kin and kin-like bonds. In Trinidad, the term friend has multivalence, suggesting a sexual relationship, an inevitable betrayal, a confidante, or a go-between. Finally, the essay draws on other models...
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An Excerpt of Marie Léticée’s Camille’s Lakou , with a Translator’s Note
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 171–187.
Published: 01 November 2024
... of outdoor markets, and the slapstick modernity of an imported French department store, as well as an endearing but doomed communal use of toilets known as caca à deux . The chapters are followed by a translator’s note offering biographical and literary historical context for both the author and text...
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Violence, Diasporic Transnationalism, and Neo-imperialism in A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 1–12.
Published: 01 November 2018
... that it is social structures reproduced over time, not enduring violent cultural formations, that create new violence with each generation. 10 In Brief History of Seven Killings James suggests the same, tracing the violence represented in the novel back to the founding of the “garrison communities” of allied...
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The Queer Politics of Crossing in Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
... position in Guadeloupe's racial hierarchy. In contrast, interculturation suggests fluid assemblages of cultural crossings and borrowings within identity and community formation. Yet there is also what Brathwaite calls “Lateral creolization” 11 —the relation between subaltern classes or groups. Lateral...
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Un-nationalisms of the Federated Archipelago
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 69–77.
Published: 01 March 2020
... in the development of the West Indian quest for a national identity.” 27 In this passage and the essay at large, “the West Indian quest for a national identity” could mean one of two things: either the quest for a set of nationalisms or a later stage of national community formation that might be called “West...
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“The Present as History”: Walter Rodney and the Search for Usable African Pasts
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 50–65.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of overlapping modes of production and the incomplete crystallization of class. Even as the forces of imperialism have eroded communal formations, he argues they remain persistent and retain a “social vitality,” particularly in Tanzania. While his reference to the normative principles emerging from stateless...
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The Futures of Michel-Rolph Trouillot: In Memoriam
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2012
... historical
social-cultural space, inasmuch as the processes through which peoples were thrown together
asymmetrically within the socializing matrix of the slave plantation shaped over time the terms
of their self-, familial-, and community-formation, as well as the ground...
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Labrish and Mooncakes: The Meeting of Vernaculars in the Work of Easton Lee
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... In addition to “official” sites, the Chiney shop, a racialized site of commerce and cultural exchange, is linked to the church and rum bar, sacred and secular spaces where spirit and spirits are apparatuses of communal formation. The second half of the sentence connects these social institutions back...
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Locating the Transnational in Postwar African American History
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2009
... selflessness of Jones’s
contribution in this regard is noteworthy and offers perhaps another gendered explanation
for her relative obscurity.
Jones’s editorship of the West Indian Gazette, a newspaper with the goals of community
formation and international coverage of the black world...
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A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 15–31.
Published: 01 November 2023
... centers Black, Indigenous, and Black and Indigenous women and girls’ historical modes of communal formation and survival while undermining the power of the patriarchal settler state. Judith Kain, one of Beer’s contemporaries and a fellow Nicaraguan Creole woman, would also come to paint vivid...
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Linton Kwesi Johnson's Dub Poetry and the Political Aesthetics of Carnival in Britain
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 54–69.
Published: 01 October 2006
... Carnival is defined as “the celebration of emergence, an affirmation of survival and
continuity, the destruction of the imposed semantic mould” (39).
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alike, lies an unfolding history of community formation...
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Multiplying Archives
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that is already black, to hint at this as a scene of subject formation as a racialized female body. It is not a coincidence that the face modeled in this moment is the face of a black girl, whose formed head (after combing) crowns a member of a community that is laced together not just by the pain of becoming...
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Music, Politics, and Pleasure: Live Soca in Trinidad
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2010
... in soca community formation and consumer
loyalty.
Among Soca Artists
Soca artists on stage have produced what Trinidad Express columnist Keith Smith calls “a
flood of collaborations.”7 These collaborations greatly contrast with the practice of calypso-
nians, who rarely...
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