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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Petra R. Rivera-Rideau This essay applies Ren Ellis Neyra’s concepts of defiance, solidarity, and mulitpoetic sensorial listening from The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020) to the author’s own family story about how her great-aunt ate the telegram announcing her...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 162–173.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., defiance, and imagined new worlds in Black women’s literary production and political thought. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Suzanne Césaire Marie Vieux Chauvet citizenship Caribbean literature ecocriticism I owe an immense debt of gratitude to the three...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 118–127.
Published: 01 July 2009
... be inferred a begrudging admiration for the defiance of this lowly, downtrodden Jamaican who stuck tenaciously to his own culture and refused to play the game of colonialism by the Englishman's elitist rules. Ole negar, in sum, was the Jamaican who clung to the African ways of his ancestry while rejecting...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 94–103.
Published: 01 July 2015
..., another world? And last, what becomes of the dream when the idealist is forced to quickly exit in this lifetime? I want to think of these questions in much the same way that the philosopher José Esteban Muñoz studied how to revolutionize time in defiance of straight, confining, and demanding ways...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 162–169.
Published: 01 July 2017
... mother was an Aborigine; the fire up defiance in your skin make your cheeks blush. Eve of your burial, your line show up itself in a house of women ready to slit the throats of small sheep. Mommy still circling your death like the Walls of Jericho, prepared to battle the ungraspable. She tell me...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 98–110.
Published: 01 November 2017
..., and admiration for British political institutions. 6 Bustamante's stance on the merits of colonization and especially his defiance of British rule showed he was not cowed into the kind of cultural submission that afflicted many of his peers among Jamaica's political class. 7 Bustamante's dissenting...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 97–110.
Published: 01 July 2010
... and the black body. Rastafari’s knotted, root-like locks were a symbol of racial
defiance intended to strike fear in the hearts of those who viewed them.28 Like their East Afri-
can Nyabinghi and biblical Nazarite predecessors, their hair was a sign to Babylon that the end
was near and that the second...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 18–36.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Haitians have sung songs as protest against corrupt political leaders, warnings of impending upheaval, revolutionary messages of defiance against potential foreign invasion, and praise for the attributes of various leaders and political hopefuls. The carnival period is traditionally the moment in which...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 115–127.
Published: 01 July 2018
... as a result of her defiance of social and gender expectations. 16 While Tavel’s intent is to exoticize the posthumous image of Montez by reimagining her origin for a younger generation, Vicens de Morales’s is geared more toward fleshing out the noncelebrity persona of Montez. From the vantage point...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 54–69.
Published: 01 October 2006
... Jamaican sound systems. However, these fears were quickly overshadowed
by the police force’s attempts to shut down Carnival.
Spitting out defiance of the popular authoritarianism that victimized black communities
in the 1970s, the title track of LKJ’s Forces of Victory serves both...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to slavery: the “stealing” of a self considered to be the property of another. Saidya Hartman links running away with a primal act of rebellion: “Stealing away was synonymous with defiance because it necessarily involved seizing the master's property and asserting the self in transgression of the law.” 49...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
... I am emphasizing an earlier moment of representation. I think where her reading procedures and mine may currently diverge is around the question of “decolonial love,” which emerges also in Petra R. Rivera-Rideau’s essay here (“When Tía Ate the Telegram: Defiance, Solidarity, and Multipoetic...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 100–107.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., using it in a French context extended this label of pride to Black French people. Its usage quickly became widespread and has remained so. With the anglophone political connotations and related defiance it once carried now essentially diluted to the point of triviality, saying Black has become...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 164–172.
Published: 01 November 2011
... political collective, the Grand parti national démocra-
tique, but democracy “invoked” a defiance of an Haitian oligarchic system that perpetuated
color divisions and material inequalities between the “sons” of Dessalines and of Pétion (170)
and symbolized, as one scholar asserted in the case...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 22–43.
Published: 01 July 2017
... but in acts of defiance: When we would visit the ghettos, I would see that the majority of faces of people in the ghetto were never happy, or even at ease. I saw that things were very, very difficult for them. So, I said, “ Bon ok! I will try, before anything else, to make graffiti that shows the feeling...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 112–120.
Published: 01 November 2022
... 1924, 4. For more on Nuestra tribuna , see Laura Fernández Cordero, “The Anarchist Wager of Sexual Emancipation in Argentina, 1900–1930,” trans. Geoffroy de Laforcade, in Geoffroy de Laforcade and Kirwin Shaffer, eds., In Defiance of Boundaries: Anarchism in Latin American History (Gainesville...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 132–154.
Published: 01 March 2021
... in the depths of the woods, and prepared for the war.” Vastey concluded of this foresight: “The defiance of our compatriots in the mountains was more useful than our feeble lumières .” 57 Haiti needed Haitian historians, according to Vastey, precisely because European perspectives would inevitably...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2009
... American women in the Communist
Party’s campaign for peace elicited the wrath of the US state, and Jones’s defiance during
her trial leading to her deportation calls to mind that displayed by Paul Robeson when he
appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). As with Robeson...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
... his neighbors, who had skillfully served themselves with their spoons … . That's why he had brought Xantippe. To hurl a silent defiance at these petits-bourgeois. To shock them with their blackness. To shock them with their smell of poverty and destitution” (ibid.). Interestingly, Désinore...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
... Black existence for the purposes of affirming or rejecting the White normative gaze. Instead, it extends the conditions for the possibilities of embodied freedom. “The blues,” Gordon notes, “thus extracts from the inner life of the afflicted the value of defiance, and along with that, dignity and self...
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