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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 2021
... do we persist in turning dynamic, interconnected phenomena into static, disconnected things?” and then answers, “Some of this is owing, perhaps, to the way we have learned our own history.” 66 Wolf’s observation helps us understand why it remains inconceivable that a “failed” nation’s commitment...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 49–64.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Ada Ferrer While Caribbean studies appears to be an established domain of inquiry, it often fails to fully incorporate the islands of the Hispanic Caribbean. Studies of the Hispanic Caribbean, meanwhile, are generally dominated by island-specific work. This essay considers the appeal and limits...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... intervention in theories of nationalism produced by the past projects of federation and the possible futures they give rise to. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 Caribbean Confederation West Indies Federation cultural nationalism community formation failed nationalisms colonialism...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 81–96.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of homosexuality as the preserve of wealthy white foreign men but also from the Wolfenden Committee proceedings that led to the decriminalization of homosexuality in England and from the “Lavender Scare” that purged homosexuals from federal government employment in the United States. Despite its failing to reform...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 109–124.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and patriarchally constructed national history. The essay reveals rarely examined contradictions between Morejón’s and Guillén’s poetry and discusses how the writers’ shared essentialist views on nationhood fail to ultimately deconstruct the hegemonic Eurocentric epistemology they vowed to upend. (In Spanish...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 36–52.
Published: 01 March 2012
... history and function untraumatized in new diasporic spaces. Rather, Counihan posits that the novel fails to reconcile its “logic of memorialization” with its “logic of resolution.” Sophie's attempt to claim transcendent Haitian and American identities, because “Haiti will always live in her,” is a much...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Mike Hill This paper examines contemporary debates around the US Census, US National Security Strategy, and various documents of postmodern war doctrine to delineate a mutation in domestic social order that is consistent both with the end of civil rights and with US planetary ambition. At one level...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 152–165.
Published: 01 November 2013
... the world and the societies that do not fully exhibit the traits associated with it are frequently branded with the labels of “failed states” or “weak nationalisms.” The trope of exceptionality regarding the nonindependent societies of the Caribbean shifts from the disparaging claim...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 179–190.
Published: 01 June 2008
... practice than to the text's demonstrable failings. He uses the occasion to meditate on the psychopathology that informs the writing of a scholarly critique of a peer's work and the tension that such a task may entail. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Conversation Manqué:
On Judging Someone Else’s Book...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 203–212.
Published: 01 November 2013
... and expanded by Michael Heinl (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996), 593–607. 10 It is interesting to note that Trouillot never mentions the name of Duvalier's party in Haiti: State Against Nation . While he acknowledges in a footnote the existence of a single party as one of the defining...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 September 2005
... the shape of its self-image, defending/resisting its
conceptions of history and community. It seems to us that many of the
conceptions that guided the formation of our Caribbean modernities—
conceptions of class, gender, nation, culture, race, for example, as well
as conceptions of sovereignty...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): viii–xiii.
Published: 01 September 2005
...,
sustaining/altering the shape of its self-image, defending/resisting its
conceptions of history and community. It seems to us that many of the
conceptions that guided the formation of our Caribbean modernities—
conceptions of class, gender, nation, culture, race, for example, as well
as conceptions...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 112–132.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the borders for new national imaginings and alternatives to incum-
bent political discourses.
Walcott’s work continually poeticizes the Caribbean’s chief export—its picturesque
faux-exoticism—in its full (though perhaps failing) splendor, remaining cognizant that
it remains a site of imminent...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 147–162.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Zambrana, Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, forthcoming). 40 Scott, Omens of Adversity , 6; Bonilla, Non-Sovereign Futures . 41 See Yarimar Bonilla, “The Leaked Texts at the Heart of Puerto Rico’s Massive Protests,” The Nation , 22 July 2019...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 20–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
... maintained for the next forty years. This essay situates the novel and the character Lowe within contemporary scholarship on migration, nation, and “transing,” and argues that Powell's novel interrogates the relationships between the body, nation, history, and memory. Lowe is a figure who, similar to many...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 187–198.
Published: 01 July 2016
... very similar questions in the concluding chapter, “Jamaica on the Cusp of Fifty: Whither Nationalism and Sovereignty?,” first published in 2012. 2 Yet, I am happy to observe that, as captured in both Gray's and Thame's comments, there are many deeper notes of consistency that I would like to imagine...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 64–77.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of European values. 36 Effectively, the reinvestment of Taino symbols and vocabulary in the Puerto Rican diaspora disavows the nation's foundational histories of indigenous extinction, colonization, and failed emancipation in favor of a triumphant, oppositional narrative. We glean something similar...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 145–156.
Published: 01 March 2024
... instructive and constructive, functioning as a hermeneutical tool to disclose and deconstruct individualized political imaginaries designed to subordinate one group over another. When all else fails in a world bursting from national and human-induced catastrophes, Gordon reminds the reader...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 53–60.
Published: 01 March 2020
... must wonder why two modern political thinkers recur to the representation of failed heroes in their fictional texts. Their most important literary texts present a discourse that verges on a rhetoric of failure that contradicts the positive modern impulse of national/regional constructions...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., even if not especially in slavery's aftermath. © Small Axe, Inc. 2012 Capitalism and
Slavery Compensation
Susan Thorne
In fact, among the social sciences and the humanities, the origins of no academic field
were as closely tied to the concept and the institution of the nation-state...
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