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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 160–165.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Khalila Chaar-Pérez In sharing the original French version as well as Spanish and (first-ever) English translations of “Speech at the Masonic Lodge of Port-au-Prince” (ca. 1870–71), the author argues for the importance of the work of Afro–Puerto Rican activist Ramón Emeterio Betances in the history...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 226–236.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017), 6. 7 Peter Hitchcock, “Decolonizing (the) English,” in Susie O’ Brien and Imre Szeman, eds., “Anglophone Literatures and Global Culture,” special issue, South Atlantic Quarterly 100, no. 3 (2001...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 102–115.
Published: 01 March 2021
...–80. 52 The official English spelling was changed from “Surinam” to “Suriname” in January 1978. 53 See Bridget Brereton, “The Decolonization of Anglophone Caribbean Historiography,” in Maurits S. Hassankhan, Jerry Egger, and Eric R. Jagdew, eds., Verkenningen in de historiografie van...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and finalist for the 2020 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize (Ameri- can Studies Association). Sarah Phillips Casteel is a professor of English at Carleton University, where she is cross- appointed to the Institute of African Studies. She is the author...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 164–175.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and Asian ancestry, Scott carries, like me, the complex story of postcolonial reality wrought from colonial ones of naming. As “David” is Hebrew for “beloved,” carried through English adaptation and British imperial organization of labor that included Gaelic peoples among whom were the Scotts, his name...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of Selvon’s
work, refl ects a range of linguistic registers that capture the rich cultural resources avail-
able to West Indian writers. Lamming modulates from standard English prose (informed
by the introspective tenor of Western literary modernism) to the open communality of
dialogue carried out...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 February 2007
... Glissant, The Poetics of Relation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), 67.
88 | SX22 • Decolonizing the Mind: Recent Grenadian Fiction
Forgetting, for example, is written largely in a Creole-like grapholect that is neither standard
nor Grenadian Creole English (GCE) but seeks...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... by an Equatoguinean woman to be translated into English. Currently the book is banned in Equatorial Guinea. 46 See Nadia Celis Salgado, La rebelión de las niñas: El Caribe y la “conciencia corporal” (Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2015); and Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
Published: 01 July 2022
...). She is currently working on a bilingual anthology titled “I Am My Own Path: The Writings of Julia de Burgos.” She is managing editor of Small Axe . G régory P ierrot is associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. He is the author of Decolonize Hipsters (2021...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 174–176.
Published: 01 November 2022
... people in Australia. His recent publications include Literary Primitivism (2018) and an essay on Louise Bennett and the decolonization of civic verse in volume 2 of Caribbean Literature in Transition (2021). R andi G ill -S adler is assistant professor of English and Africana studies...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 263–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
... College, Oxford. B elinda E dmondson teaches literature in the Departments of English and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, Newark. She is author of several books on Caribbean literature, including Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative (1999...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2013
... and “racial multiplicity” of early-seventeenth-century English understandings of the world. 24 French-, English-, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean writers have taken up The Tempest —especially the character Caliban—in the context of decolonization. 25 Anthony Bogues notes that Caliban has become...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 152–154.
Published: 01 March 2020
... in the Department of English and African American and African Studies at Michigan State University, East Lansing. Her forthcoming monograph Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Litera- ture examines the textual and historical relations between diasporic Afro Puerto Rican, Afro- Cuban, Afro...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 167–177.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Improvement Association, to an altogether different task—defending the British Empire. At a September 1914 UNIA meeting in Kingston, members expressed their “loyalty and devotion” to the British Empire, bearing homage to “the great protecting and civilizing influence of the English nation and people.” 1...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2024
...—as an old civilization of quaint ruins, a place to spend good money, and a world to mock and sneer at for its supine dependence on the United States it so helplessly despises. In 1946, the esteemed existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers published a short book titled (in its 1947 English translation...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 87–95.
Published: 01 March 2020
... 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 West Indies Federation postcolonial community BBC Caribbean Voices Caribbean literature Henry Swanzy In The Pleasures of Exile , George Lamming states that for him there are three important events in the history of the English-speaking Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
... or almost decolonized natal home to which to return. Daphne, a white woman—the daughter of “a Scottish rubber plantation manager and a lower-middle-class English mother”—was also adrift. Her family did not approve of her marriage to Peter nor did her parents warm to their mixed-race grandchildren. 3...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of desperation because a guy has to go backstage and change. The pressure of that moment has made you create.”
Robert Hamner, “Conversation with Derek Walcott,” World Literature Written in English 16, no. 2 (1977): 410.
8 | Dreams, Delirium, and Decolonization in Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 1–11.
Published: 01 November 2009
... central to Glissant’s
thinking but whose implications now change somewhat. Originally it was an anti-imperialist
1 Edouard Glissant, Le discours antillais (Paris: Seuil, 1981); translated into English by J. Michael Dash as Caribbean
Discourse: Selected Essays (Charlottesville: University...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 129–145.
Published: 01 November 2015
... that in certain particular cases and in certain particular conditions, a federated Republic constitutes a step forward”; ibid. 16 For the full passage Césaire reproduces, see Lénine, L'Etat et la révolution (Paris: La Fabrique, 2012), 149. For the English text, see State and Revolution: The Marxist...
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