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A Case for Relation: Mapping Afro-Latinx Caribbean and Equatoguinean Poetics

Yomaira C. Figueroa
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190526
Published: 01 March 2020
... strategies emerge across the literatures of the Afro-hispanophone Atlantic diasporas. For example, in “Witnessing” I contend that María Lugones’s feminist philosophical concept of faithful witnessing is a critical component to the decolonial turn and to reading decolonial imaginaries. 47 I engage...
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The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought

Minkah Makalani
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985654
Published: 01 July 2018
... other terms than in the symbols of power?” 11 This is not to indict black radical imaginaries as such. Rather, it seeks to grapple with the tendency of such projects to avoid an epistemological reorientation—what we might call a decolonial turn—away from treating the social order as a fully mapped...
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Spanish Caribbean Literature: A Heuristic for Colonial Caribbean Studies

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 65–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726866
Published: 01 November 2016
.... Then it focuses on the meaning of the nineteenth century in the Spanish Caribbean, with particular attention to the Caribbean confederation and 1898 as key moments in the colonial and decolonial process of this region. Then the essay turns to the notion of criollismo in the Spanish Caribbean and its dialectic...
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Decolonial Multilingualism in the Caribbean

Shawn C. Gonzalez
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 11–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190514
Published: 01 March 2020
... conflicts. 3 Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “Thinking through the Decolonial Turn: Post-continental Interventions in Theory, Philosophy, and Critique—an Introduction,” Transmodernity 1, no. 2 (2011): 2. 4 Gabriela Veronelli, “A Coalitional Approach to Theorizing Decolonial Communication,” Hypatia...
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Plantation Futures

Katherine McKittrick
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378892
Published: 01 November 2013
... for the brutalities of our world toward the reader. Reading the text—“our grief will dry lakes” (61)—demands the reader register the data by asking why the poet would acknowledge, make plain, and versify this data. To turn to decolonial poetics produced by diasporic communities who have survived violent displacement...
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Abduction and the Grounds of Caribbean Reasoning

Raj Chetty
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384388
Published: 01 July 2021
... of Caribbean geographies, politics, epistemologies, and its people’s lived experiences moves outward to provide analytical and conceptual service for metropolitan centers, even if for decolonial purposes. By contrast, Kamugisha offers something far more centripetal, turning to two of the Caribbean’s major...
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A Return to the Anticolonial: History as Weapon on the Caribbean Battlefield

Audra A. Diptée
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211822
Published: 01 November 2022
... (Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2009), 46. See also Nelson Maldonado-Torres, “Thinking Through the Decolonial Turn: Post-continental Interventions in Theory, Philosophy, and Critique; An Introduction,” Transmodernity 1, no. 2 (2011): 1–15. 4 Mary Chamberlain, “Elsa Goveia: History and Nation,” History...
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Heading South : Love/Sex, Necropolitics, and Decolonial Romance

Shirley Tate
Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1334230
Published: 01 July 2011
...Shirley Tate Reading Heading South as a decolonial romance reveals anxiety about the liminal location of young male citizens in 1970s Haiti caught within the necropower of state terror and US imperialism. Focusing on young men selling “romance” on the beach within the continuing colonial relations...
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Sensorial Errancy in Decolonial Key

Rocío Zambrana
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901710
Published: 01 July 2022
... fish and smile side by side with bright skies and rust and, of course, the sea. Anticolonial sensorial errancy turns into decolonial sensorial errancy precisely in apprehending more than the rust of an ousted Navy, in listening more than to explicit imperial bombs. It breaks and rearranges history...
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Dancing in an Enclosure: Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019

Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901569
Published: 01 July 2022
... as decolonial practices by dislocating the socially prescribed binding between performance and affect. Using the theories of Saidiya Hartman, José Esteban Muñoz, and Juana María Rodríguez, and connecting to the work of Rocío Zambrana on strategies that address the island’s colonial legacy, the essay explores...
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Of Celestinas and Saints, or Deconstructing the Myths of Dominican Womanhood

Elizabeth S. Manley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 72–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985771
Published: 01 July 2018
... in this decision. Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 futurity political imagination Fanonian leap undecidability decolonial turn ...
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The Body and Performance in 1970s Jamaica: Toward a Decolonial Cultural Method

Honor Ford-Smith
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7374514
Published: 01 March 2019
... colonial representations and create community in profound ways. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s work on colonial epistemologies and representation in relation to questions of race and decolonization and on Rex Nettleford’s discussion of embodiment and marronage, the author lays out a method of decolonial...
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José E. Muñoz's Critical Caribbean Crossroads

Maja Horn
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 78–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139382
Published: 01 July 2015
..., shuttling between different identity vectors” (32; emphasis mine). Muñoz thus turns to “hybridity” in order to account for identities that do not comfortably fit into existing US minoritarian identity categories. One may well then consider Muñoz's focus on hybrid identities formed by the shuffling between...
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Con-Federating the Archipelago: Introduction

Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann
Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 37–43.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8190541
Published: 01 March 2020
... and Jamaica from the 1860s to 1898; the West Indies Federation became a governing body in the British Caribbean territories from 1958–62. These “con-federated” forms reverberate together in the idea of trans-Caribbean unity as a utopian reference for anti-imperial sovereignty and the decolonial achievement...
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Translation and Transculturation in the New York–Hispanic Caribbean Borderlands

Laura Lomas
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726758
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the Caribbean diaspora in remaking colonial languages and transculturating European-dominant traditions. In what ways are Casal's decolonial mestizos so radically different? Casal critically revises Martí's romanticizing of the “autochthonous mestizo” and redresses a tendency among Latin American writers...
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White Mythologies

Ren Ellis Neyra
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901752
Published: 01 July 2022
... never been enough for the blackened position to not be violable with and in the name of White impunity. So to Rivera-Rideau’s considering toward the end of her essay that my “methodology might lead us to practice what Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez terms ‘decolonial love,’” my reply is, No. 49 I...
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Gazing Outward and Looking Back: Configuring Caribbean Visual Culture

Roshini Kempadoo
Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 136–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2323364
Published: 01 July 2013
... recognition in international exhibitions are explored here and considered in light of creole practices and decolonial aesthetics. Visualizing involves the mobility of images and multiple protagonists—spectators, photographers, subjects' in the photographs—creating unstable points of view. Visualizing...
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Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness

Alexander G. Weheliye
Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 180–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739947
Published: 01 July 2014
..., which they, in turn, identify as a hindrance and use as an occasion to reject the US variant of blackness. This also presumes that established black US populations are somehow not diasporic and that US blackness is unitary, while using it as a raw interpretive resource in the scholarly codification...
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Dread Dialectics

David Austin
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749914
Published: 01 November 2020
... of conventional Eurocentric Marxism as part of what Makalani refers to as a “decolonial turn.” 46 Rooted in this tradition and against the backdrop of Afro-pessimism and the emergence of BLM, Moving Against the System was published alongside and in dialogue with Dread Poetry and Freedom . Both books, I hope...
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Displacements: The Jamaican 1950s

Deborah A. Thomas
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 53–64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749770
Published: 01 November 2020
... and economic affairs. It argues that by the end of the long 1950s, the earlier-twentieth-century story of an emergent civil society in Jamaica was displaced by the story of political society. The result has been a formal decolonization that lacked some of the decolonial social and cultural visions of earlier...
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