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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 164–175.
Published: 01 March 2024
... faith, b/Black consciousness, the blues and hip-hop, bridging the aesthetic and the ethical, colonization, decolonization, double-consciousness, embodied consciousness, epistemic closure, freedom, historical erasure, joy, language, liberalism, Negritude, neoliberalism, oppression, political life...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
... double-consciousness, where he aims to deconstruct the two “warring ideals” by “merg[ing] his double self into a better and truer self.” 9 The aim is neither to diminish the historical ( living ) legacy of the African slave trade nor to distort the forced cohabitation between White enslavers and Black...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 14–27.
Published: 01 July 2016
... in the logic of conceptual doubles, incarnated in the familiar trope of double-consciousness . Du Bois reworked these entangled and oppositional racial identifications in his thinking about the West's normative rule of whiteness in the architecture of modern sociality and the foreclosure of white dominative...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2011
... consumption (to return to Holland and Huggan’s definition of the postcolo-
nial travel narrative), and perhaps Wideman himself, is his double-consciousness as an African
American. It is through this lens that he apprehends the contours of his uneasy experience
and analyzes the condition...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 150–159.
Published: 01 July 2010
... the ever existing space of double-
consciousness that W. E. B. Du Bois so eloquently spoke of in The Souls of Black Folk. We
possess the ability to see the world simultaneously from a mainstream viewpoint, as Brits,
and from a marginalized one, as black Brits.1
Jamaican sound-system culture...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of community is
stretched across national boundaries.
Living as a deterritorialized person imposes a kind of geographic double conscious-
ness, similar to the double consciousness lived by members of derogated racial groups:
In each of these dialectical conceptions...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 69–77.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and poke fun at the insular imaginary so attached to its place in the British Empire that it would denominate the island of Barbados “Little England” or “Bimshire.” The blarney thus suggests a colonial form of double-consciousness, to invoke W. E. B. Du Bois’s concept for the doubling of the racialized...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 157–163.
Published: 01 March 2024
... libidinal, visceral modes of black life. The polarity change from black to Black comes through a “‘potentiated double consciousness.’” 9 “Realizing that he or she is not a problem but a human being facing problems,” Gordon writes, “the black comes to question the society, which is human-made...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 63–72.
Published: 01 July 2024
...) and through the impact of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness , which was published the year after Rohlehr’s My Strangled City . The latter work incredibly came out the same year as its equally remarkable sequel, The Shape of That Hurt . Yet of all the honors Gilroy has...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 191–201.
Published: 01 July 2014
... is the reversal, whereby the dread provoked by those outside society becomes the dread of authority itself. Another is the doubling of dread from the gothic trope of the doppelganger, to W. E. B. Dubois's double consciousness, to the echoic reverberation of dub. 6 Where Africa leads, the world follows...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 120–128.
Published: 01 March 2005
... erence between Gilroy and Edwards is perhaps best exemplifi ed in their
choice of quotes from W. E. B. Du Bois. Gilroy appropriates Du Bois’s pronouncements
on black double consciousness to underscore his thesis of black modernity as hybrid, lim-
inal, and inextricably imbricated...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 123–136.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Renaissance as his inheritance—it was his springboard, where he comes from. Second, he opened up for me what I would call the triple-consciousness , which emerges, I want to suggest, when one is not just black but black and gay. With [W. E. B.] Dubois's double consciousness, one is struggling with issues...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 83–96.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., www.isaacjulien.com/home (accessed 6 April 2010).
2 Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (New York: Verso, 1993), 73. See Paige Schilt,
“Queering Lord Clark: Diasporic Formations and Traveling Homophobia in Isaac Julien’s The Darker Side of Black,” in John
C...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 87–104.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of herself.9 Antoinette’s experience
of double consciousness, however, is not an epiphany; it does not prompt her to stop using
racial stereotypes when addressing herself to those she considers inferiors. Momentarily switch-
ing the narrative focal point, Antoinette verbally parrots Tia in a performance...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 255–273.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., “Black Atlantic Abstraction,” 182–205; and Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (London: Verso, 1993). 38 See Kellie Jones, “‘It's Not Enough to Say Black Is Beautiful’: Abstraction at the Whitney, 1969–1974,” in Mercer, Discrepant Abstraction , 155–56. 39...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 128–141.
Published: 01 October 2008
... dissertations,
one from Harvard, the other from Virginia, that New World Studies acquired. Nick Nesbitt’s
Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature contains two chapters
on Césaire. The first explores the antinomies of double consciousness in Césaire’s long...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 148–163.
Published: 01 July 2009
... consciously parodied and mocked the excessive elegance and vulgar refinery of
the planter class: “The doubling of registers, the complex symbolic reversals by which the ter-
rors of servitude are simultaneously ‘normalized,’ rehearsed, and ‘replayed’ as violent parodic
masquerade.”11 This subversive...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk , ed. Henry Louis Gates and Terri Hume Oliver (New York: Norton, 1999); Kodwo Eshun, More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction , 10th anniversary ed. (London: Quartet, 1999); Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 203–216.
Published: 01 March 2009
... that it is much more than a study of double consciousness;
14 James, Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia, 4, quoting an article from New York Age, 16 August 1924; emphasis mine.
28 March 2009 • Patricia J. Saunders | 215
it depicts...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 193–202.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (1983; reprint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 2000) Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993).
6 Carole Boyce Davies, Left...
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