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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Paul Emiljanowicz This essay examines interpretations of the fragmentation of the Island of Hispaniola into the Dominican Republic and Haiti as a point of departure into the process by which national difference is constructed and reproduced as both a site of difference/alterity and as a co...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 18–33.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Amerindian and Afro-and Indo-creole women, it argues that these imbricated violences may better be understood through a feminist analytic and praxis of relational difference . A departure point that brings the scaffold histories and legacies of colonialism, dispossession, slavery, and indentureship...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 120–128.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Nadi Edwards Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Diaspora, Difference,
and Black Internationalisms
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rent Hayes Edwards’s Th e Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise
of Black Internationalism is in many ways an answer to Earl Lewis’s cogent ques...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 87–109.
Published: 01 November 2024
... to whom Black radicals speak that scholars can begin to understand the different and context-dependent registers in which Black radicals speak. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Black communism Black internationalism Black Dutch radicals Dutch Caribbean Suriname...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
...José I. Fusté This essay uses Vanessa Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017) to reflect on the different stakes surrounding debates about Schomburg as a historical figure and also as a heuristic for grasping the complex vicissitudes of Afro-Latinx life...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 141–150.
Published: 01 March 2017
... College, New York, 8 March 2013. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 video art identity difference hybridity visual culture As a mixed-“race” Jamaican-born woman, my racial self has been constructed by a hybrid experience, with a more privileged positioning in Jamaica than in the United States...
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Published: 01 July 2017
I experiment with them and try to make things out of them, like doing drawings on them, manipulating them into different shapes, curving them among themselves, putting them up to dry, and making drawings of them.
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 23–42.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Curdella Forbes Curdella Forbes deploys a complex of historically marked territorial metaphors— plot, plantation, squatting, trespass , and transgression —to read two apparently different texts, Maryse Condé's quasi-tragic 1976 novel Heremakhonon , which is set on the African continent...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 85–92.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in Suriname and in the Netherlands used for themselves in different periods? What have Whites called African descendant people in Suriname and in the Netherlands in different periods? When does Black come to the fore? Who mobilizes the term and for what purposes? This exercise brings forward important...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 67–77.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha This essay seeks to speculate on the reception of de Anton de Kom’s Wij slaven van Suriname (1934) within a very different context of political debates on race; decolonization; the politics of solidarity; and internationalist and anticapitalist struggles—all themes...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2017
... it as a critical marker of the creation of a parallel social infrastructure and all-encompassing set of social arrangements to serve the city's elites. The author's central concern is with how social differences that were once openly coded through race and color now were articulated in spatial terms. The essay...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Christina Kullberg In French Caribbean literature, translations from Creole to French, along with the inclusion of Creole orality in novels written in French, constitute a broader form of intracultural translation that expose problematic tensions between sameness and difference. The essay starts...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 166–181.
Published: 01 November 2013
... about otherness and difference constituted in relation to the universal unmarked category of the West. Second, that this relation between anthropology and alterity can be fully exposed only by tracing the historical emergence of the West through its imaginative and material relations with others...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of apparently disparate cases, it challenges the paucity of historiography on intra-Caribbean comparisons as well as racialized and gendered assumptions of difference and even opposition between the Spanish and British Caribbeans. It maps out a methodology for comparing women's experiences and actions, along...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 75–89.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of interesting refigurings of black manhood outside of its current and historical spectacularizations that offer a lens for seeing black manhood differently, and thus thinking about black manhood differently. I am interested in highlighting modes of self-fashioning that allow for a reconstruction of black...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Silvio Torres-Saillant This article offers to the consideration of readers a number of site-specific vignettes that highlight the ways in which the experience of blackness--as different from the fact of blackness--may take different forms depending on the moment, the socio-cultural setting...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Patricia Mohammed This essay examines the problem of being Asian in the Caribbean, Asian referring generically to settled groups originating from the sub-continent of Asia. The essay traces how demographic minority status and religious difference have historically led to the process of becoming...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 65–79.
Published: 01 November 2016
... relationship with creole and creoleness as two different fictive ethnicities that are signified differently in Latin America and the French and Anglo-Caribbean, respectively. The essay concludes with a proposal for the Spanish Caribbean as a heuristic that reconnects Spanish, Anglo-, and French Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 100–107.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Grégory Pierrot This essay presents and studies five different words used in French to express the notion of Blackness . The five words analyzed— nègre , noir , black , renoi , and négro —entered the French language between the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
... would, in different ways, have to contend with McTurk’s minstrel legacy. If McTurk is a pioneer, there is palpable unease with the notion that he is foundational . This tells us as much about the received narratives of Creole literary emergence as it does McTurk’s verse. The notion that the story...
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