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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 159–168.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Jafari S. Allen This short appreciation of Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom by Mimi Sheller—one of the leading theorists of mobility studies and the author of numerous works that have expanded our understanding of transits to and around the Caribbean—emphasizes...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 147–158.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Michaeline A. Crichlow This essay, in discussion of Citizenship From Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom by Mimi Sheller, underscores the need to historicize Caribbean sociocultures as complex ensembles of heterogeneous practices. It lauds efforts to sustain the investigation of the gendered...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 139–153.
Published: 01 October 2007
... in our various academic and activist locations, I build on this deployment of the Sacred to argue for a feminist pedagogy of the erotic as a form of liberatory politics within Women's Studies. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Rethinking Interdisciplinarity:
Meditations on the
Sacred Possibilities...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 154–166.
Published: 01 October 2007
...M. Jacqui Alexander This essay stages a meeting among the authors of the three reflections on Pedagogies of Crossings . Using danger and desire as the tropes of entry, it returns to Pedagogies by way of wrestling with their most salient preoccupations: the need for a visible pedagogy of the erotic...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 143–163.
Published: 01 November 2020
... surrounding these works has conspicuously ignored any erotic potential inherent in them. Using the contemporaneous, mostly private homoerotic photographic archive of Archie Lindo as a point of entry, this essay questions and complicates the narrative surrounding nationalist-era art in Jamaica, particularly...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2013
... of Colin Channer's novel Waiting in Vain —a blend of erotic and urban romances that the essay terms “urban romantica”—in conversation with its content. Reading Waiting in Vain through its form as well as its Amazon.com evaluations shows inordinate attention to the act of choosing an identity, particularly...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 131–154.
Published: 01 November 2019
...José Lezama Lima; Robin Myers In 1941, a young José Lezama Lima, the Cuban poet, essayist, and novelist—who would go on to author the polemically erotic neobaroque masterwork Paradiso (1966) and essays on cultural expression in the Americas, such as “La expresión americana” (1957)—published...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Tracy Robinson This essay explores the expansion of Jacqui Alexander's earlier concept of erotic autonomy through the motif of the Sacred in her new book, and her articulation of what could be described as a Caribbean feminist ethic that demands radical self-determination exercised within self...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Faith Smith This essay discusses Jacqui Alexander's Pedagogies of Crossing as framing an analysis of the curtailment of erotic autonomy in the United States and the Caribbean, the failures of liberal feminism and academia, and the propensity for military intervention, with an examination...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
... insights into the black Atlantic and the challenge of experiencing dub as a sound archive but also as a phenomenology that raises questions of embodiment and gendered bodily labor. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 sound archive dub phenomenology embodiment erotics yes dis poem is a drum ashanti mau...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2015
...). 25 Allen, “Erotics in Medias Res,” 166. 24 Sonjah Stanley-Niaah, DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010). 23 Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: History and the Production of Knowledge (Boston: Beacon, 1995). 22 See Matthew...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... imperatives of colonized peoples, as well as on their desires for open human interrelationality at the intimate erotic, and public levels,” while Laura E. Pérez argues that “a decolonizing politics must introduce, engage, and circulate previously unseen marginalized and stigmatized notions of ‘spirituality...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Conceptually, the work of Carolyn Cooper stands out in this regard. It begins in Noises in the Blood , in which she introduces the concepts of “verbal maroonage” and, pivotally, “erotic maroonage,” after defining maroonage generically as the “tradition of resistance science that establishes an alternative...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
...-crafted kinship, erotic and affectionate networks or lines of affiliation, rather than filiation … and … multiple temporalities, as much as it is memory of place [and] networks (of travel, communication, and informational exchange).” 15 Also using Deleuzian terminology, Puar emphasizes an ad-hoc “self...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
Published: 01 July 2023
... and artists, Gosine argues for a “refusal of [the] demarcating line between human and non-human animal” (11). Gosine’s five-chapter interrogation considers how this human / nonhuman animal organizing binary turns on the excision of, and desire to tame, the erotic, more specifically the erotic when...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
... ventana,” is a world of sensorial and erotic possibility—a perspective that supports a positive and affirmative command of spaces where darkness predominates, a world that escapes the masculine hegemonic of the Trujillato. In “La espera,” Contreras plots the soundscape of a nocturnal world where...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the Americas, even though they do not engage Spiritual Baptism directly. 4 Lyndon K. Gill, Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming). From 2003 to 2009, I conducted the field research in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 17–33.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Movement in Jamaica: A Study of Race and Class Conflict,” Social Forces 34, no. 2 (1955): 167–71. 54 On erotic autonomy in Caribbean contexts, see M. Jacqui Alexander, “Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: Feminism, Tourism, and the State in the Bahamas,” in M. Jacqui Alexander...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 112–132.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., ” titled “Shabine Leaves
the Republic” and is much more of a pun than a declaration. Structurally, the line
announces itself immediately after the series of rhetorical questions directed to Jesus.
1 ese questions themselves come on the heels of Shabine’s failed quest for erotic...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 178–181.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and Jamaica (2000), Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies (2003), Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom (2012), and Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity (2014). She is also founding coeditor of the journal Mobilities and coeditor of Uprootings/Regroundings...
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