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Beyond Resistance: Notes Toward a New Caribbean Cultural Studies

Shalini Puri

Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 23–38.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-2-23

Published: 01 September 2003

...Shalini Puri Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Beyond Resistance: Notes Toward a New Caribbean Cultural Studies Shalini Puri he noted anthropologist Peter Wilson, in his 1973 book Crab Antics,¹ observed in Caribbean societies a fundamental and structuring tension between...

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Visual Narratives of Cultural Memory and Diasporic Identities: Two Contemporary Haitian American Artists

Jerry Philogene

Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 84–99.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-2-84

Published: 01 September 2004

...Jerry Philogene Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Visual Narratives of Cultural Memory and Diasporic Identities: Two Contemporary Haitian American Artists Jerry Philogene n examination of cultural production is useful to the understanding of the experi- ences of diaspora...

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Introduction: Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks

Martin Munro, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): viii–xiii.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-2-viii

Published: 01 September 2005

... consists of this: to participate both in the renewal of practices of intellectual criticism in the Caribbean and in the expan- sion/revision of the horizons of such criticism. We acknowledge of course a tradition of social, political, and cultural criticism in and about the regional/diasporic...

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Riffing on Omeros : The Relevance of Isaac Julien to Cultural Politics in the Caribbean

Jane Bryce

Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 83–96.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2010-006

Published: 01 July 2010

... beyond the limits of consensual meaning? Riffing on Omeros: The Relevance of Isaac Julien to Cultural Politics in the Caribbean Jane Bryce Filmmaker and video artist Isaac Julien’s artistic practice has always been inextricable from its political context. In all his work to date, whether...

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Sewing Up Questions of Cultural Identity: Lorna Goodison's From Harvey River

Sandra Pouchet Paquet

Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2010-014

Published: 01 July 2010

... of Jamaican national becoming by insisting on the creative power of Jamaica's racial and cultural heterogeneity. On the one hand, the memoir honors domesticity as the necessary and valuable work of nurturing family and community while maintaining discreet lines of demarcation between the persona...

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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

...Nalini Persram Small Axe Incorporated 2004 The Importance of Being Cultural: Nationalist Thought and Jagan’s Colonial World Nalini Persram [O]nly a vulgar reductionist can insist that [nationalism’s] new political possibilities simply “emerge” out of a social structure...

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Contemporary Art as Cultural Product in the Context of Haiti

Barbara Prézeau-Stephenson

Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-3_27-94

Published: 01 October 2008

... artists and to the new generation of sculptors linked to the Saint Soleil school. The article concludes with a consideration of the role of artists in contemporary political movements. ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 Contemporary Art as Cultural Product in the Context...

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The Blues Matrix: Cultural Discourses and Community in Erna Brodber's Louisiana

Rae Ann Meriwether

Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 103–118.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1894123

Published: 01 November 2012

... of the “blues matrix” and Homi K. Bhabha's theory of culture as enunciation rather than epistemology, Meriwether contends that Brodber's community comes into effect through various cultural discourses, and that these discourses illuminate a novel form of collective agency that is radically different from...

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On the Idea of a Caribbean Cultural Studies

Aaron Kamugisha

Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 43–57.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323310

Published: 01 July 2013

...Aaron Kamugisha This article critically appraises the wealth of cultural criticism and epistemological developments in the study of Caribbean societies now increasingly grouped under an emerging discipline termed Caribbean cultural studies. It advances the claim that the critical study of Caribbean...

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Finding the Field: Notes on Caribbean Cultural Criticism, Area Studies, and the Forms of Engagement

Shalini Puri

Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 58–73.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323319

Published: 01 July 2013

...Shalini Puri Reflecting on the methodology for the author's forthcoming book, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory , this essay argues for the importance of fieldwork in Caribbean literary and cultural studies and contributes to the development of a shared public...

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Dawn Scott, A <span class="search-highlight">Cultural</span> Object (1985). Mixed-media installation at the Nat...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7374514

Published: 01 March 2019

... brilliantly elucidates? Nettleford maintains that the dance was both a primary instrument of survival and cultural resistance: First, it [dance] is a skill that depends on the physical and mental capacities of the survivor. One’s body belongs only to oneself, despite the laws governing chattel slavery...

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Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro-Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics

Paget Henry

Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 179–190.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-179

Published: 01 March 2002

...Paget Henry Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro- Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics Paget Henry must begin by thanking Brian Meeks, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Patrick Goodin, and Claudette Anderson for taking the time to put down so clearly...

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Eulogizing Creoleness? Éloge de la créolité and Caribbean Identity, Culture, and Politics

Martin Munro, Celia Britton

Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844319

Published: 01 March 2017

... to be overcome by conscious political struggle for change and a militant conception of identity resisting assimilation; Introduction à une poétique du divers (1996) and Traité du Tout-monde (1997), where créolisation produces relational identities formed out of contacts between cultures in a process...

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Créolité , Creolization, and Contemporary Caribbean Culture

H. Adlai Murdoch

Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 180–198.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3843938

Published: 01 March 2017

... accomplishments? One key predecessor, Kamau Brathwaite, suggested that the binarisms undergirding the principle of cultural distinctness on which much of the historical definition of the region was drawn be abandoned in favor of an increasing recognition of its intrinsic cultural heterogeneity. For many...

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Shake Keane's “Nonsense”: An Alternative Approach to Caribbean Folk Culture

Philip Nanton

Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 71–92.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-7-2-71

Published: 01 September 2003

...Philip Nanton Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Shake Keane’s “Nonsense”: An Alternative Approach to Caribbean Folk Culture Philip Nanton WEEK FOUR Kaiso Calypso Mauby Maw-beer...

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Beyond Resistance: Notes Toward a New Caribbean Cultural Studies

Visual Narratives of Cultural Memory and Diasporic Identities: Two Contemporary Haitian American Artists

Introduction: Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks

Riffing on Omeros : The Relevance of Isaac Julien to Cultural Politics in the Caribbean

Sewing Up Questions of Cultural Identity: Lorna Goodison's From Harvey River

The Importance of Being Cultural: Nationalist Thought and Jagan's Colonial World

Contemporary Art as Cultural Product in the Context of Haiti

The Blues Matrix: Cultural Discourses and Community in Erna Brodber's Louisiana

On the Idea of a Caribbean Cultural Studies

Finding the Field: Notes on Caribbean Cultural Criticism, Area Studies, and the Forms of Engagement

Dawn Scott, A Cultural Object (1985). Mixed-media installation at the Nat...

Guyana, Cuba, Venezuela and the “Routes” to Cultural Reconciliation between Latin America and the Caribbean

Passa Passa : Interrogating Cultural Hybridities in Jamaican Dancehall

“Whether Beast or Human”: The Cultural Legacies of Dread, Locks, and Dystopia

Cultural Criticism and Its Generations: The Achievement of Maureen Warner-Lewis

The Body and Performance in 1970s Jamaica: Toward a Decolonial Cultural Method

Culture, Politics and Writing in Afro-Caribbean Philosophy: A Reply to Critics

Eulogizing Creoleness? Éloge de la créolité and Caribbean Identity, Culture, and Politics

Créolité , Creolization, and Contemporary Caribbean Culture

Shake Keane's “Nonsense”: An Alternative Approach to Caribbean Folk Culture

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