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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 20–36.
Published: 01 March 2015
... space and offers them a methodology for destabilizing the world's (post)colonial orders. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 differential repetition petit pays small countries scalar theory postcolonial geography In the early 1990s, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris turned...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 18–32.
Published: 01 July 2023
... a foreign language. Brodber’s sense of this displacement suggests the cyclical reinvention of a field around new understandings of cultural politics or aesthetic practices. This line of thought borrows from Cobham-Sander, who argues in I and I: Epitaphs for the Self that the self-referential repetitions...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 155–166.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in his essay as “recepción” (reception), “reincorporación” (reincorporation or reingestion), “reconstrucción” (reconstruction), and “rehallazgo” (refinding), the repetition of the prefix underscoring the receptive or secondary character of his proposed aesthetic practice, what he also calls in the essay...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2023
...: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015), 23. 59 Brent Hayes Edwards has similarly argued that anaphora are crucial to our understanding of the Notebook , given that “it may be precisely the element of repetition that adds a qualification...
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The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 96–109.
Published: 01 July 2020
...-natural crisis events as evidence, it shows that repetitive states of coconstituted ecological and political-economic devastation create vivid spaces of loss that make clear to the affected that repeating states of dystopia cannot be ruptured by the reiteration of the past political visions of nation...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 90–106.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Walcott's play Drums and Colours and the essays and poetry of Monchoachi show the creative engagement with a differential opacity that speaks to the negotiation of the specificities of self-determination and self-definition necessary to the postcolonial condition. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Monchoachi...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 163–176.
Published: 01 June 2007
... preferred to the all too familiar, endlessly repetitive official
narrative of history.
A recent example of this tendency to desert history and home in Haitian fiction is Louis–
Philippe Dalembert’s L’île du bout des rêves (2003), in which the exiled narrator seldom refers
to Haiti, and affirms...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 160–165.
Published: 01 November 2021
... not mention the singularities that differentiate them, particularly with respect to class and race. He does not allude to the problematic racial politics of the Cuban independence movement, which was commanded by a White elite that—contrary to what Betances says in the speech—did not give full freedom...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 85–92.
Published: 01 July 2022
... or female Natives], much less with the free female Natives, and to engage in carnal conversation with them.” 5 Owing to the repetitiveness of the injunction, one must conclude: to no avail. Meanwhile, how did Creoles refer to themselves? During the colonial period, Creoles in Suriname used...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2014
... … missed her altogether. It was not she, and yet it was no one else. I would have recognized her among thousands of other women, yet I did not ‘find’ her … . I recognized her differentially, not essentially.” 14 Barthes finds the essence he is searching for—“the truth of the face I had loved...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
... anecdote that I heard over and over again from my older relatives. In spite of its
constant repetition, it always generated a lot of laughter. The story describes the reaction of
my mother’s aunt upon seeing my father for the first time, way back in the late 1950s when
he was beginning to court my...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
... 's immersion in the twentieth century makes it less immediately visible as a neoslave narrative. Its reliance on the genre is most apparent in its repetition of slave narrative conventions, since it traces a character's passage to freedom, describes intimate details of slave life, and relies on “post...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 59–77.
Published: 01 July 2011
... reveals that the
journey itself is self-consciously marked—and marketed—as a Caribbean experience in at
least three distinct ways.
First, the tours differentiate themselves from other travel options as catering specifically
to the itineraries of Caribbean folk. Points of departure...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
... rights movement. Thus Vaginal Davis, through performance, recognizes her intersectional identity. Intersectionality, according to José, drawing on the work of critical theorist Kimberele William Crenshaw, recognizes “the copresence of sexuality, race, class, gender, and other identity differentials...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 189–198.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and downplayed these as valid categories of differentiation among Dominicans” (37). Masculinity after Trujillo provides convincing evidence to support this potentially controversial contention. The reason why this statement might give one pause is simply that Dominican studies as considered by North American...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
Published: 01 November 2018
... that differentiated the two so as to render Black girlhood invisible and even untenable.” 9 This couplet, invisible and untenable, reminds me of when Sharpe says black childhood is inviable and invisible (91). Or when Hortense Spillers writes that gender for the black is both “crucial and evasive.” 10...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 22–39.
Published: 01 March 2013
... by Fela Kuti with his band Afrika 70 in Nigeria. Both bands were influenced (directly) by the sound of James Brown's bands, and in both outfits the implicitly mocking function of the repetitive, disembodied vocals (primarily provided by women), and irony, played central, defining roles (e.g., Fela's...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 89–102.
Published: 01 March 2018
... politique dans Mûr à crever , l’ Éloge , et Cahier d’un retour au pays natal d’Aimé Césaire, et en analysant le mouvement entre isolement et révolution, ainsi que la répétition de l’histoire, j’entends démontrer que cette œuvre est beaucoup plus près des perspectives anticolonialistes et anticapitalistes...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 105–115.
Published: 01 November 2021
... is submarine” is quoted by academic and creative writers, it is surprising that very little, if any, attention has been given to the repetition-with-a-difference in the last line of “Caribbean Man” or to what questions might surround this difference between unity and unit . I cannot pretend to solve...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 1–23.
Published: 01 November 2021
... of authenticity of the relics, which was initially crafted through the inscriptions on the relics box, was further enhanced through the repetition of those same words on the statue pedestal. But beyond the use of repetition for relic legitimation purposes, and besides the inscribed words themselves denying...
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