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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2009
... production of the crime of obeah discursively isolated those aspects of Caribbean spiritual practice that match terms defined as antonyms of or precursors to religion—“magic,” “superstition,” “witchcraft,” separating these aspects from others that conform more easily to an idea of “religion.” This colonial...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 79–89.
Published: 01 July 2024
... elegance. Her embodied wor(l)ds convey a powerful message that coolly brushes aside middle-class timidity and conformism to inspire postcolonial people not just in the Caribbean but across the global South, empowering people to wield the beauty of creolized language, music, and movement as decolonial...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... between Indigenous spatio-temporalities of life and experience as they underwent forced conformity with a homogeneous, “empty” time and space underpinning Eurocentric ideas of capitalist progress as well as the advancement of communism/socialism; a critique of unilinear Development models; and How Europe...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
... posthumous heroization cast a shadow over nonanglophone black activist-intellectuals who did not conform to normative early twentieth century US black nationalisms. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 blackness Afro-Latinidad race Puerto Rico To this day, there is no statue or plaque...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 45–51.
Published: 01 July 2016
...—that it had not died and could be a viable option for their efforts and, in time, a preferable one. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. modernism specialization standardization conformism...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 118–122.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that are less about ideologies than about embodiments, less about representations than about performativities, less about utopias than about instantiations, less about belongings than about lovings, less about stabilities than about displacements, less about sexualities than about desires. Powers of conformity...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
... representations and experiences of Caribbean heterosexual men and women as well as those of men who desire men, of women who desire women, and of transgender and other non-gender-conforming people, while carefully noting the differences made by the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and color. In her focus...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 164–166.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. Her research on Caribbean literature and history focuses on textual travel and publishing infrastructure in the conformation of Pan-Caribbean discourse and cross-lingual Caribbean solidarities. Her first book (in progress) argues...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 106–121.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., and hypocritical version of universalism. While skeptical and understandably disillusioned critics of the West’s and other universalisms worry that the idea of human oneness requires conformity, suppresses diversity, and of necessity imposes uniformity and homogeneity, the Bahá’í writings propose that diversity...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
... by James to be the result of Touissaint’s “loss of historical direction,” no longer conforming the world spirit to his will. Within this narrative, Haiti was the object of a theory-problem born of particular problem-spaces and universal history as the “ mode of its literary-theoretical resolution.” 16...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
Published: 01 July 2022
... death in a way that conformed to normative behavioral standards. Nevertheless, this does not mean that her actions, her feelings, are illegible. Multisensorial poetic listening allows us to interpret these feelings as expressions of alternative ways of knowing and being that might otherwise be dismissed...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Rican feminist who refused to conform to the “labor movement’s patriarchal ethos” while donning a masculine wardrobe in the “male-dominated lettered barriada.” 39 Always resisting, subverting at every turn—reading Capetillo is embarking on a course (journey) in textual anarchism that teaches...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of such mediating strategies as shock, hermeticism, negation, defamiliarization, and so on, strategies that imply an ideological critique of conformism and orthodoxy. In this sense, the avant-garde movements differentiated themselves from modernism in little more than emphasis. Bürger disagrees...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2012
... inescapable heterogeneity. He refused simple-minded assumptions about
special cases—the idea, for example, of Haitian exceptionalism—and he understood that,
given its history, the Caribbean would not conform to the gatekeeping protocols (or “slots,”
as he called them) of conventional...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 69–85.
Published: 01 November 2019
... appear to signal a shift in the long-sustained ideological relationship between Latin American and Caribbean literary traditions: they rarely conform to the conventions of the Latin American dictator novel genre. This essay considers how contemporary Caribbean narratives of dictatorship challenge...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Rafael Trujillo’s power and cultural dominance. 35 If boys and young men attempt to avoid participating in masculinity as a performance and social construction, they are labeled maricona and interpreted as weak in a culture that celebrates virility. Men and boys who do not conform to masculinity’s...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2024
... natural; they are also indispensable, imperative. Reading Sekyi-Otu, one is reminded of the outraged voice of Stéphane Hessel’s poignant 2010 manifesto Indignez-vous! , calling on us to refuse the mindless indifference by which the powers that govern us seek to guarantee our conformity (his principal...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2020
... cultural conformism. It was through Witter that I met George Beckford, easily one of the most original Jamaican intellectuals ever. I vividly remember Beckford walking into the UWI lecture hall in October 1977 to begin his course Caribbean Political Economy, looking out at us naïve youngsters...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of discourse are not entirely unfamiliar for readers of his earlier work, save for a number of more explicit emphases. The book develops a reworked critique of capitalist modernity and the conceptions of the “good” (and of morality more generally) that conform to its ethos and forms of self-knowledge...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 169–181.
Published: 01 February 2008
... that conformed
to familiar pictorial traditions, naturalizing and aestheticizing the violence of the plantation
system in the process. Caribbean picturesque paintings and photographs are unique in that
they represented parts of the landscape that had already been remade through the processes
of colonial...
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