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... with gender systems across spectrums of similarity and difference, and suggests that women's and gender history can enrich comparative Caribbean historiography as a whole. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 The engendering of Hispanic and Anglophone history being undertaken in the Caribbean still all too often...

... on such themes of mutual observation and interconnection as experienced by slavery-era Caribbean populations, free and enslaved. Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 comparative slavery Caribbean slavery Atlantic history comparative history When describing the arrival of dozens of French ships...

... registers across distinctive histories. Following Chude-Sokei’s engagement with Sylvia Wynter, the essay begins with the centrality of women’s engagements with technologies for mobility featured in African popular print magazines in the era of independence. Turning to a contemporaneous publication, Langston...

...Alejandra Bronfman What accounts for the peculiar history of Jamaican broadcasting? This essay considers Kingston as a sonic terrain and examines the ways both colonial officials and residents of the islands engaged in a process of understanding Kingston's place within an emerging electroacoustic...

...Diana Paton This article asks why negative stereotypes of obeah have proved so persistent, seeking the answer in a detailed examination of changing colonial constructions of obeah. It compares the history of anti-obeah laws with that of the Shakerism Prohibition Ordinance in St. Vincent...

..., The Decline of Women in the Criminal Process: A Comparative History, Criminal Justice History 15 (1994): 236. 5 See Jonathan Dalby, Crime and Punishment in Jamaica: A Quantitative Analysis of the Assize Court Records (Kingston: Social History Project, Department of History, University of the West Indies...

... (who were 13. James, Beyond a Boundary, 233. 14. Ibid., 233, 225. 15. Stoler and Cooper, “Between Metropole and Colony”; Robert Gregg, “Beyond Silly Mid-Off : C. L. R. James, Ranjitsinjhi and the Boundaries of Englishness,” in Inside Out, Outside In: Essays in Comparative History, ed...

..., chemistry, physics, geology, physiology, comparative anatomy, anthropology, linguistics, moral and political science, philosophy, theology, history, and law. “He refused to specialize in any of them,” remembered the classmate, “he boldly sought them all Besides practicing law and teaching, Firmin...

..., 1998), 3, 10. 2. Th e phrase is Robert Gregg’s, Inside Out, Outside In: Essays in Comparative History (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 135. 3. Th ere is now a substantial literature but see, for example, Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women...

... of sakoku (closing). During this period of more than two centuries, access to the country was heavily restricted and monitored. “Creole Japan” comes from a talk given at the international symposium “Situations créoles,” organized by the Canada Research Chair in Comparative History of Memory...

... Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Contributors Susan Buck-Morss is Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca. She is a member of the graduate fields of comparative literature, German studies, and the history of art and visual studies, and teaches in the School of Art...

... on a history of Dominican feminist thought and activism, tentatively titled “Voices Echoing beyond the Seas: Dominican Feminisms, from Transatlantic to Transnational, 1882–1942.” C arlos G arrido C astellano works at the Center for Comparative Studies of Lisbon University. His research interests focus...

..., and Comparative Black Modernism (2008), and her essays have appeared in African-American Review , Callaloo , and Modern Fiction Studies . She is currently at work on a history of transpositions of the Carmen story set in African diasporic contexts. ...

... society—against the background of its genesis inside a catastrophic history marked by genocide, deracination, displacement, and systematic cultural domination driven by colonial plantation slavery. Obvi- ously it is the work of Kamau Brathwaite—historian, cultural critic, and poet...

... in the Guianas. She is the author of The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts (2020) and the editor of Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity, and Incorporation (2018). M itchell E sajas is cofounder of the New Urban Collective and The Black Archives in Amsterdam...

... . Recent examples of comparative work on central themes in Cuban history include Jorge Ibarra Cuesta, De súbditos a ciudadanos, siglos XVII–XIX: El proceso de formación de las comunidades criollas del Caribe hispánico , 2 vols. (Santo Domingo: AGN, 2012); and Oscar Zanetti Lecuona, Esplendor y decadencia...

... at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and a Writing Fellow at Queens College. His dissertation project is on twenty-first-century African literature and migration, and he is an organizer for the Postcolonial Studies Group at the Graduate Center. P eter J ames H udson teaches in the Department of History...

... © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 K amau B rathwaite is a distinguished historian, poet, and literary-cultural critic. After a long career teaching in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and subsequently the Department of Comparative Literature at New York...

... literatures in a comparative Caribbbean studies framework. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 colonialism Caribbean confederation 1898 criollismo creole I began my engagement in Caribbean studies precisely by expanding my horizons beyond my specific interest in Puerto Rican literature and by proposing...

...: Interrogating the Caribbean (2011) and is currently working on a book project titled “Whose Modern? Caribbean Cultural and Intellectual Formation, 1885–1915.” © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 N ijah C unningham is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia...