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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 152–165.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Yarimar Bonilla Over fifteen years have passed since Michel-Rolph Trouillot issued his critical call for the renunciation of Haitian exceptionalism. Trouillot's principled argument remains as urgent today as when it was first written, if not more so. Particularly in the wake of the 2010 earthquake...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 210–219.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., how gender and age shape people’s experience of crisis, the discourse of Haitian exceptionalism, and the need to rethink crisis in Haiti from the standpoint of the conceptual categories and lived experiences of those who most directly feel the brunt of the destructive forces of predatory capitalism...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
Published: 01 July 2021
... orisha rituals to patakíes (Afro-Cuban oral tradition), over a reappropriated plantational space in which black sensuality contests negative biopolitical forms. Rolando not only draws from transnational critical race theory to address the myth of Latin American exceptionalism, she also challenges Michel...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... that of more politically visible figures such as Jacques Roumain, Jacques-Stephen Alexis, and René Depestre. Chauvet's exceptionalized status has much to do with her nonparticipation in the gender-bound political culture of her time. This essay seeks to tease out how this pointedly nonaligned woman writer fits...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 32–41.
Published: 01 October 2008
...J. Michael Dash This article challenges the notion of Haitian cultural exceptionalism, and the ways in which in the postindigenist era the peasant novel in general and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée in particular became yardsticks for judging Haitian writing. Evoking contemporary...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
...-constitutive counterpoint to identity formation and national founding. While the early historiography of Hispaniola offered a social constructivist revisionist account of fragmentation and nation state formation, it simultaneously sustained the notion of exceptionalism, reified elitist nationalist discourses...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 2021
... to those so reduced to such an existence to claim sovereign rights for themselves.” 49 What follows is an exploratory approach to how we might extract ourselves from a language of exceptionalism, be it positive or negative, when investigating Haiti or its modes of governance. Failing to do so will only...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to some of the ways this apprehension of otherness has functioned to produce the idea of Haiti-as- exception . As he put it, a “notion of Haitian exceptionalism permeates both the academic and popular literature on Haiti under different guises and with different degrees of candidness.” 2 Haiti, so...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2005
.... Th us, there
seems to be a curse on black people. But the Haitians have, despite everything, been
able to escape it. How? By luck! And why? Because of what Asselin Charles calls Haitian
exceptionalism, that is, the belief in an exceptional Haitian character.⁹ It is this convic-
tion that leads...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 193–199.
Published: 01 March 2014
... relationship to violence. Indeed, I often feel that I did not go far enough to argue against the exceptionality of Jamaica in relation to the circulations of violence—past and present—that have been foundational to our notions and experiences of modernity. By these, I mean to evoke not only the early modern...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 201–208.
Published: 01 July 2017
... is in many ways a traditional place-based monograph, it is guided by a comparative perspective that seeks to de-exceptionalize the French Antilles and to deprovincialize the Caribbean more broadly. This approach is influenced by the work of pioneering scholars such as Sidney Mintz, Gordon Lewis, and Franklin...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 186–198.
Published: 01 November 2021
... exceptionalism. 4 Since then I have been interested in the narratives of disaster and end times that embolden the idea and philosophy of radical hope. I will suggest here that the phrases and expressions claiming the end of Haiti after the earthquake also elucidate Haitian perceptions of hope. The people...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... These narratives are in fact pre-
vious to the influential work of Gilberto Freyre. Historian Célia Marinho de Azevedo contends
that the myth of Brazilian racial paradise was formulated by Brazilian abolitionists with the
help of their US counterparts. Images of Brazil’s exceptionally pacific racial relations...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 55–71.
Published: 01 March 2014
...” and the grip of a “fiction of exceptionalism” that has defined popular views of Haiti remain potent. Trouillot identified this as a key feature that “permeates both the academic and popular literature on Haiti under different guises and with different degrees of candidness.” 1 This is perhaps no less true...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 49–64.
Published: 01 November 2016
... by the assumption of a Cuban exceptionalism, which has sometimes limited the impetus to compare and to make connections with the rest of the Spanish Caribbean and beyond. 21 Take, for example, the question of national independence. A kind of Cuban exceptionalism lies at the root or the point of origin...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 121–128.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., the succession of resounding negations (“Neither Europeans, nor Africans, nor Asians …”) setting the tone of the Praise only ends in the affirmation and the proclamation of some new exceptionalism: that of a Caribbean identity defined by its opposition to what Edouard Glissant has called ata-vistic cultures...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 80–94.
Published: 01 July 2014
... and acted on these connections. It is historians who have suffered amnesia subsequently, relegating the territory and its residents to narratives of regional isolation, unrelenting conflict, and exceptionalism. Vigorous narratives of difference separate Dominican historiography from Pan-Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 144–152.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of the strengths and promises of Lambert’s close reading methods that is urgent for Black feminist literary criticism: the rejection of exceptionalism as virtue in and of itself in the analysis of Black women’s political careers and, by extension, their literary production. Lambert certainly highlights Purcell’s...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 164–172.
Published: 01 March 2014
... these forms. And so the exceptionality of the violence Thomas studies in Jamaica is the exceptionality of the rule.) For the European and North American poets Ramazani studies, the designation “melancholic mourning” captures the techniques of ambivalence, irony, and irresolution that mark the work of writers...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., sources of song and free labor, so it made sense to use one to help domesticate the other. The fact that American capitalism would use that alternative soundscape as a contradictory sign of democracy—the voice of the oppressed to signify American exceptionalism, the sound of the slave to signify freedom...
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