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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 123–137.
Published: 01 November 2016
...William Luis This essay examines Roberto Fernández Retamar's groundbreaking Calibán (1971) and his revision “Calibán revisitado” (1986), within their historical, political, and literary contexts. A few months before the publication of Calibán , the arrest of Cuban poet Heberto Padilla produced...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 115–122.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Peter Hulme On the forty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Cuban writer Roberto Fernández Retamar's influential polemic Calibán , this essay revisits the circumstances in which Fernández Retamar wrote the piece and assesses its continuing significance for the Caribbean as a region. Attention...
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Roberto Fernández Retamar con Tomás “Titón” Gutiérrez Alea, circa 1970. Courtesy of Casa de las Américas More
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Roberto Fernández Retamar con sombrero, circa 1995. Courtesy of Casa de las Américas More
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Marta Fernández Campa This essay highlights the role of archives, archival research, and integration of archival records in contemporary Caribbean visual artwork that evokes and reimagines unevenly recorded historical processes/moments. It also suggests the defining role of this approach...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Marta Fernández Campa This interview with acclaimed Trinbagonian Canadian author M. NourbeSe Philip offers an insight into her creative process, particularly in relation to Zong! As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng . It delves into the critical querying and ethical concerns guiding...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the good fortune to pay a visit to Casa de las Américas, and to meet with its president, the poet, essayist, and critic Roberto Fernández Retamar. For someone like me, born where and when I was (in Jamaica, in 1958, on the ambiguous eve of political independence), and thus with my generational hopes...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 143–145.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Roberto Fernández Retamar con sombrero, circa 1995. Courtesy of Casa de las Américas ...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
... little known critical “rereading” of Roberto Fernández Retamar's famous essay “Calibán,” Casal takes Fernández Retamar to task for reducing Shakespeare's enslaved islander to a generic figure of the New World or hemispheric “american,” in a way that does not fully acknowledge the extent to which...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 28–58.
Published: 01 February 2006
... philosophical justi cation for its claims in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Albert Geou re de Lapradelle, and others, arguing about the rights of man and territorial sovereignty. In support of what he sees as la justa causa of Venezuela s claim to Guyana, Antonio de Pedro Fernández outlines in La historia...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203–208.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . Chapters 4 and 5 analyzes the important legacy of Burgos for the Harlem–New York–Puerto Rican and US Latin@ communities and the dialogues that different writers and artists have with her work. From poetry by Luz María Umpierre, Manuel Ramos Otero, and María Teresa Fernández, to art installations...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 17–32.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and Margarite Fernández Olmos, Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santería to Obeah and Espiritismo , 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2011). 9 See John Savage, “Slave Poison/Slave Medicine: The Persistence of Obeah in Early Nineteenth-Century Martinique...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 90–102.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in one area,” remark Margarite Fernández-Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert about black diasporan religions, “it is in their promotion of a ritualized union of the people with the spirit world, in the reciprocity of the link between the spirits and the community.”15 Brodber’s character Ella...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 206–209.
Published: 01 November 2016
..., the Catherine Doctorow Prize, and the Chiaro Award. In 2015 the Pérez Museum published Firelei Báez: Bloodlines . K amau B rathwaite , a distinguished poet and a friend of Roberto Fernández Retamar's, was born in Barbados in 1930. After a long career teaching at the University of the West Indies, Mona, he...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 112–120.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848–2011 (Oakland, CA: AK, 2014), 21. 21 For a list of these publications, see Shaffer, Anarchists of the Caribbean , 292–94. 22 See ibid.; Ángel J. Cappelletti, Anarchism in Latin America , trans. Gabriel Palmer-Fernández (Oakland, CA: AK...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 99–114.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of the paternal voice of God (the cardinal) speaking before and to the mother/wife figure of the nation (Margarita Fernández). This assemblage couples a logic of divine right over and above secular law and human or civil rights. This assemblage has implications not only for contemporary Dominican society but also...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 142–150.
Published: 01 July 2021
... . Este último trabajo fue bien recibido. Este libro es el tema central del dossier que se publica en Small Axe . ¿Cuál fue el impulso para escribir este libro? NM: En realidad, un mediodía, los escritores Mario Benedetti (Uruguay) y Roberto Fernández Retamar (Cuba) me llamaron a la Casa de las...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 209–218.
Published: 01 November 2017
... in 1938, see Pérez-Rosario, Becoming Julia de Burgos , 33–37. 19 Mariposa [María Teresa Fernández], “Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises,” in Flores and Jiménez Román, The Afro-Latin@ Reader , 280–81. For a more complete reading of this poem and the way Mariposa...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 22–37.
Published: 01 March 2014
... de la Isla de Cuba, the Spanish bank of emission, loomed large over Cuba's economy and finances during the latter half of the nineteenth century, becoming a hated symbol of colonialism to Cuban nationalists. The Banco Español's history has been taken up by economic historians Susan J. Fernández...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 111–124.
Published: 01 October 2006
... in Central America and the Caribbean, (Managua, Nicaragua: CRIES, 1995); Ronald Fernandez, Cruising the Caribbean: US Influence and Intervention in the Twentieth Century, (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994). 13. Jones et al., Structural Adjustment, 75. 114 | SX21 • On a Knife Edge...