... of créolité , from the point of view of the question of essentialism. In a long description of the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux, Glissant interprets them as figurations of the relation between self and other—between the human community that produced them and its surroundings—and notes...

...Rachel Goffe This essay was originally drafted for a twenty-year retrospective on Charles Carnegie’s Postnationalism Prefigured (2002). Reflecting on her own ethnographic research, the author takes up two of the book’s insights. The first unsettles national sovereignty as an essentializing horizon...

..., and monolingual. Further, defining the authentic Haitian as monolingual essentially perpetuates the denial of linguistic rights for the majority of the Haitian population. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Haiti Haitian literature Haitian linguistic situation monolingual Haitians Haitian readers While...

... character is to be situated between historiography and fiction. It addresses the extensive documentary foundations of Bell's fictional account, while highlighting the imagined interpretations essential to this refiguring of the revolutionary. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Madison Smartt Bell’s Toussaint...

...David Scott This short essay offers one frame in which to think about the idea of a black radical tradition, a term whose elements are all essentially unstable and contested. What is at stake is a historically minded inquiry into “uses” rather than “meanings”—that is, the historical conjunctures...

... serve as the basis for solidarity with other oppressed people. Whereas the accusation of racial essentialism has long followed the founders of the Negritude movement, the Yugoslav connection invites a more layered and nuanced reading of the Notebook , whose unusual origins resonate throughout its verses...

...Charles V. Carnegie This essay argues that a noncontingent, nonexclusionary notion of humanity’s oneness— constituted through difference rather than denying it—provides a principled foundation for social renewal and repair at all social scales. This foundation of human oneness is essential...

... the line of an essentializing biological racial miscegenation frame and collapses the distance between racial positions of nonwhiteness and blackness. This critical review centers the socially constructed experience of black subjects and what Frantz Fanon refers to as the “fact of blackness.” It asks what...

... destabilizes the very ideas of the essential difference of Caribbean cultures and of the purported rationality of the West. The children’s attempts to use sorcery to kill their teacher also challenge the supremacy of French culture and the pedagogical imperative of universalism and rationality through...

... as a manifestation of the black radical tradition and a critical involvement with socialism. Drawing on C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, it argues that black freedom struggles in the Americas and Europe, including slave revolts, have been an essential part of the history of labor and freedom struggles. It also...

... essentialism. When Senghor declares that Negritude is not an essence but an existence, he is precisely calling attention to the fact that its literature was produced during more than fifty years, with contradictions, rectifications, palinodes. This contribution is an invitation to reread Negritude in general...

... the Caribbean may be usefully defined in terms of translation, it is also essential—in reciprocal terms—that wider discussion of translation should itself be actively “Caribbeanized.” © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 multilingualism translation zone Haiti Creoles resistance In a study of the place...

...Kaiama L. Glover In this essay I explore the generic limitations of the “Pour une littérature-monde en français” manifesto. Looking at certain of the document's structural and thematic stumbling blocks, I examine the essential dilemmas that reside at the heart of all postcolonial literary...

... to motherhood which I discuss below, these depictions portray women’s greatest contributions to the nation as coming through their role as mothers. This position reinscribes an essentialized view of national identity as coming through biological motherhood.9 Referencing the (black) mother in Caribbean...

... República Dominicana, proclamada el 26 de enero. Publicada en la Gaceta Oficial, no. 10561, del 26 de enero, 2010 , www.ifrc.org/docs/idrl/751ES.pdf , 7. 19 Christine Gudorf, “Strategic Essentialism and Vatican Policy,” Political Theology 15, no. 3 (2014): 232. 18 Skype interviews...

... quips, asides, and suggestive commentaries. Those paradigms all too often opted for a generality that easily morphed into a vagueness that at times occluded the very people whose experiences and cultural products those paradigms depended on. And though fervently critical of racial essentialism, those...

...: “[It is by] means of the ‘outrides’ or looped half-feet I secure a strong effect of double rhythm, of a second movement in the verse besides the primary and essential ones.” 41 In Brooks’s hands, it is the work of comprehension, and thus to salute and love, that is accomplished by slight additions that make...

..., when thinking about Mendieta's work, José sought to move beyond “the predictable good dog/bad dog argumentation around concepts like essentialism” (195) that have long framed the analyses of the Silueta Series, and indeed my own dislike and trepidation regarding the series and its reception...

...-mindedness of a certain tradition in Caribbean writing.³ In this article, my analysis of Pays sans chapeau will implicitly show that the relation- ship between Laferrière’s fi rst work and Chauvet’s trilogy is essentially very similar to that between Pays sans chapeau...

... perhaps was his reliance on Father Placide Tempels’s “Bantu theory of vital force,” without which—he told the American professors—one could scarcely comprehend “Antillean music, dance, [poetics], or festival frenzy.”14 By June 1979 the manuscript of my book Modernism and Negritude was essentially...