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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 185–199.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Kenneth Bilby Richard Price's Travels with Tooy culminates with a series of reflections on a fundamental fissure that has persisted in the theorization of African American culture. On one side are those who stress African cultural continuity of various kinds, and on the other, those who argue...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 69–82.
Published: 01 July 2021
... their presence with the structural changes that have occurred since the 1960s and the beginning of tourism boom, it is admirable that the Frenchies have not lost contact with their immigrant past. What is crucial for the continuation of French culture in St. Thomas, given the absence of government-sponsored...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 28–43.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of Chinese and other anti-imperialist movements, Chen toured the global South, worked in the United States, and returned to the West Indies during the early 1940s to play an integral role in the making of a transnational Caribbean cultural politics. Sine's research traces how Chen continually defied...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 218–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
... think about ways of knowing (including subject positions, relationships, disciplines) in the Caribbean? How do we best think about ways of writing Caribbean culture (literary modes, social science modes), the languages needed to express what Bilby calls the “ineffable”? To what extent and in what ways...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 89–98.
Published: 01 November 2010
... margins and centers, mediating the continual flow of movement in between and among cultures of the world. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 World Literature in French: A Caribbean Design? Keithley Woolward In autumn of 2007, five of the year’s seven major literary prizes in France were awarded...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2019
... a colonial cultural model wherein the colonizer alone creates culture that the colonial subject consumes. For Césaire, art and literature have the power to “restore historical initiative” to colonized peoples and, furthermore, to “reaffirm or reinvent the historical continuity broken by colonial intrusion...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 80–99.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Tatiana Flores; Michelle Stephens This essay argues for an archipelagic approach to the twenty-first-century visual arts of the insular Caribbean. While it is common for scholars to stress the region's heterogeneity, the authors seek out thematic continuities in the art of the Caribbean islands...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
... Espinet's The Swinging Bridge , characterize the black Atlantic's colonial history as an outstanding debt. Collectively, they demonstrate that this past continues to overdetermine the transnational present. This assertion challenges cultural studies' tendency to parse “the colonial,” “the postcolonial...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 69–84.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Leanna Thomas This essay explores how Daniel Maximin constructs an imagined past in his novel Lone Sun by wrenching archival sources out of their domain and context and selectively situating them in a narrative replete with cultural and oral traditions. It examines how Maximin remembers those who...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 100–107.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and the 1980s and were often borrowed from other languages. The way the terms have been and continue to be used illustrates France’s complicated and shifting relation to people of African descent, notably within its own population. In the context of culture wars that have been shaking the country in the past...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 78–87.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Kobena Mercer Contrary to the view that Stuart Hall's involvement in the visual arts was a supplement to his work in cultural studies and political analysis, this reflection addresses key continuities that connect his 1970s writings on racism and the media with the enlivening impact that the hybrid...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 21–32.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., according to Glissant, to two types of alienation: the first alienation is due to its discontinuity or dissonance with its own landscape and space of creation, that is with the American continent. In seeking to prolong cultural continuity with the European tradition 11 “La parole de mon paysage est...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 179–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
... practices that place greater emphasis on the concrete and the culturally specifi c. In the case of philosophy, we cannot expect to fi nd continuities at the level of everyday rituals, but at the more abstract conceptual level of modes of reasoning, the borrowing of arguments, concepts...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 94–99.
Published: 01 February 2006
... literary representations of Belizean truths, locally and in a diaspora context. Th is will nurture our cultural autonomy as well as our cultural continuities with other nations of the region that share our common history of enslavement and resistance to enslavement, colonization, and neocolonialism...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 163–172.
Published: 01 November 2010
... the ‘unhistorical histories’ dismissed by Hegel, including the collective actions that appear out of order within coherent narratives of Western progress or cultural continuity” (148). This is an important qualifier to the and in the title of the first essay: the classic connector of epic...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 86–97.
Published: 01 July 2023
.... They challenged the assumption that studying English literature was the best way to teach African students how to appreciate “the historic continuity of a single culture throughout the period of emergence of the modern West”: “Here then, is our main question,” they argued. “If there is a need for ‘study...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 200–209.
Published: 01 July 2009
... World,” Diaspora 1, no. 3 (1991): 261–84. 18 Ibid. 29 • July 2016 • Aisha Khan  |  205 across time and place of the complexities and contingencies of cultural development rather than banking on Africa-centric continuities (66...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 185–193.
Published: 01 November 2019
... about an erasure of a different kind—that of the archive. I do not mean archive here in the sense of “the sum of all texts that a culture has kept upon its person as documents attesting to its own past, or as evidence of a continuing identity,” nor to name those repositories that hold and preserve...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., Algarín evoked the cultural and epistemic violence that migration signified: What does it mean, then, to the New York Puerto Rican to have been moved to the North and to find once he gets there that … the jobs are demeaning, and the historical continuity has been totally severed? It means that only...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2016
... in the classroom and interpolate speakers of Spanish in the United States in alienating and culturally inappropriate ways. The result is that more students chose Spain over Latin America for study abroad, and Latin American literatures and cultures continue to be neglected. 13 Furthermore, hispanophone...