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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 (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 (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
... by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Dutch Caribbean sexuality kambrada relationships postcolonial sexual dynamics Caribbean erotic vernaculars gender and kinship in Curaçao In the field of Caribbean studies, there is a notable omission: the Dutch Caribbean islands are frequently overlooked in scholarly...
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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): 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 (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 (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 (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 (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
... new or different spaces within the context of the various configurations of modern social power”; and we can dream of “hi/stories (human identity stories)” that are “pivotally about assertions of self, affirmations, or rather, a will to place, inducing a journeying from place to place. ” But erotic...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 147–155.
Published: 01 July 2024
... that were used to spread hate and discrimination. So, what other terms could same-sex desiring women use to identify—if they wanted to? This essay draws on my ethnographic and erotic engagement with same-sex desiring women, using data derived from our conversations and interactions, as well as from our...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... are represented as ever-present shadows, as vectors of intimate violence, and as catalysts that shape the psyche and the kinship and erotic practices of each woman. Obono’s La Bastarda is known as the first LGBTQ novel in the Equatoguinean literary corpus. 45 Through the narrative of the protagonist Okomo...
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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. But the “sharing” and “bonding” in the story evidenced in listening...
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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
..., and the United States for achieving erotic autonomy in Jamaica. 54 Indeed, several issues after the editorial that criticized those who “refuse to come out” as a problem and hindrance to the movement, Donna Smith, in her regular JGN column, “Girl Talk,” called for an approach to activism that did...
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