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...Patricia Mohammed Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Taking Possession: Symbols of Empire and Nationhood Patricia Mohammed TAKING POSSESSION he 1969 planting of the fl ag of the United States of America on the moon, made symbolic with Aldrin’s invocation of a Christian God...

...Madhavi Kale Small Axe Incorporated 2003 BOOK DISCUSSION: CIVILISING SUBJECTS Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867, Catherine Hall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-31334-4 Subject to Question: Empire and Catherine...

...Catherine Hall Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Narratives of Empire: A Reply to Critics Catherine Hall et me fi rst thank Patrick Bryan, Rhonda Cobham, Madhavi Kale and Faith Smith for the time and trouble they have taken to think and write about Civilising Subjects. LI greatly...

.... L. R. James's varied coteries throughout Italy, the author argues that James's methodological innovations in the field of slave historiography were central to the formulation of strategies of refusal and flight eventually popularized in Hardt and Negri's Empire . These methodological homologies...

... encouraged the overwriting of elements in his original plot that had engaged with specifically Jamaican concerns during the endgame of Britain's empire. However, unlike its successors, the film version of Dr. No did retain some insights from Fleming's novel, with its script reflecting aspects of Jamaica's...

...Jorge L. Giovannetti Small Axe Incorporated 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The Elusive Organization of “Identity”: Race, Religion, and Empire Among Caribbean Migrants in Cuba Jorge L...

...Harvey Neptune Small Axe Incorporated 2006 BOOK DISCUSSION: Black Empire Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, Michelle Stephens. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0822335514 African American Manhood...

...,” a process that names new categories of persons but also subjects them to an articulation of disciplinary powers not of their own making. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 After Empire: Training Lawyers as a Postcolonial Enterprise Mindie Lazarus-Black Ab s t r a c t : The early...

...Saidiya Hartman; Tina Campt Small Axe Incorporated 2009 A Future Beyond Empire: An Introduction Saidiya Hartman and Tina Campt The hands are clasped in a moment of repose. Labor is at a standstill. In this fixed instant, we experience the sturdiness of these hands as implements...

...Anne McClintock The question is still open: what is the purpose of Guantanamo Bay? Why torture people whom the government and the interrogators know are innocent? What kind of U.S. empire now extends its filaments throughout the global gulag of interrogation prisons, torture-ships and internment...

... of the autobiographical genre in reckoning with histories of slavery and empire, beginning with The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), and concluding with Carby's own autobiography-in-progress, “Child of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post...

... Revolution, which was followed by Jean-Jacques Dessalines's establishment of an “empire” and the kingdom of Henry Christophe, show the profound antinomies of the discourse of universalism. Beginning with a reading of Haiti's founding documents in light of the political thought of Etienne Balibar and Hannah...

... of these narratives of Haitian history, this essay argues, were “bundles” of silences. Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 Haiti British Empire Dessalines commemoration spectrality silence In December 1903, preparations were being made in Port-au-Prince for the celebrations of the centenary...

...Christopher Taylor This essay serves as a response to the review essays by Adom Getachew and Petal Samuel on the author’s 2018 Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism . Exploring how the history of liberal capitalism that Empire of Neglect tells might afford critical...

...Adom Getachew This review essay situates Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (2018) in the context of the two-decade-long debate about the emergence of a liberal imperialism during the nineteenth century. Through an examination of the political...

...Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann Given the importance of literature to various forms of social cohesion, it is not surprising that the European and US empires that have dominated the geopolitical existence of the insular Caribbean have not readily invested in literary infrastructure throughout...

...Charisse Burden-Stelly This essay offers a critical engagement with historian Peter James Hudson’s groundbreaking text Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean . It begins with an analysis of Hudson’s detailed account of the entanglements of the internationalization of US banking...

...Marc Matera Through a combination of critical memoir and family history, Hazel V. Carby’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands offers an intimate history of empire—an excavation of close connections across space and time, of empire’s presence in the most intimate spaces and relationships...

... discursive forms pertaining to the West Indies Federation that often “pass” for nationalism while exceeding its bounds, arguing that these forms, ranging between an attachment to empire and the critique of empire, resist assimilation into nationalist frameworks. 25 Anderson, Imagined Communities , 6...

... and empire, the author demonstrates the unique position of LGBT activists in the global South. In the context of the global South, and specifically a context that is heavily Catholic, universalized LGBT language enables Dominican activists to mobilize international, hemispheric, regional, and national...