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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 147–155.
Published: 01 July 2024
... fictive kin lesbian sexuality In Trinidad, the word friend has similar multivalence, laden with sexual tension, always suggestive of something other than a platonic relationship. In Tales from Facebook , Daniel Miller declares that Trinidadians have been using the term to friend for over...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and dispossession. Famously, he is the subject of the unusual fictive device, an author’s note inserted late in the novel through which Lamming cautions against both scholarly and literary attempts to rationalize Powell’s commission of murder (Vice President Raymond) and attempted murder (the Brown middle-class...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... The fictive kinship of paper sons, picture brides, half-sisters, and stepmothers in the African and Chinese diasporas produces double narratives of strategic evasion from state surveillance and a continuous reassembling of intimacy. The restitching of black and Asian kin in the wake of the violent legacies...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 37–50.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Valérie Loichot This essay sheds light on family relations in Octavia Butler's fantasy neo-slave narrative Kindred (1979) through Édouard Glissant's theories of kinship and Relation. This comparative gesture thus relate Glissant's Caribbean texts to an unlikely kin, a Californian African American...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2008
... of history, and produced a counter-history
at the intersection of the fictive and the historical. Counter-history, according to Gallagher and
Greenblatt, “opposes itself not only to dominant narratives, but also to prevailing modes of
37. The notion of recombinant narrative...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 64–77.
Published: 01 November 2014
... mundane jobs to sustain his life as a writer and that the glamorous life of an intellectual is a privilege. Effectively, this passage represents an undoing of the fictive identity the protagonist cultivated in France. Interestingly, the protagonist's affinity for Klok brings to mind the revalorization...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 72–84.
Published: 01 July 2018
... only briefly and was childless. Both have been written as unattractive, deviant shrews. In Mayer’s aggressive response to the accusations of treason, she effectively betrayed her own kin in favor of an ill-fated attempt to regain political prominence. By linking dangerous female sexuality...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the radical potentiality of the participant observers’ gaze, early black women anthropologists struggled to establish the necessary bonds of trust and understanding between themselves and their estranged diasporic kin at their fieldwork sites. Both Hurston and Dunham experienced a great deal of discomfort...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 96–242.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of universality, propels the slave into decisive action. Memorably, it is this whole preoccupation that finds a fictive form in Patterson's Die the Long Day , in his depiction of Quasheba's decision to act in defense of the value of human dignity as it comes alive in a mother's attempt to shield her daughter...
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