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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 123–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Lauren Derby This essay argues for the utility of fugitive speech forms as primary sources for Caribbean historical research. It seeks to shift the discussion from forms such as autobiography and the memoir to more ephemeral speech forms such as hearsay, rumor, and gossip on the grounds...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 34–48.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Mónica B. Ocasio Vega This essay explores fugitivity in Puerto Rican culinary practices, centering the cooks María Dolores “Lula” de Jesús and Viña “la Gran Pastelera” Hernández. By analyzing two visual texts— Eat, Drink, Share Puerto Rico ’s episode “El Burén de Lula” and Hernández’s recipe video...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 155–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
... , and religion only causes them to melt away under the weight of indefensible totalizing gestures, Vazquez makes a compelling case for turning away from presumptions that “objects can be known” (7) and toward the privileging of the fugitive and of multiplicity. 2 For musicians or musicologists, the book...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2022
... claims. Specifically, it draws on various theorizings of Black insurgent life to explore the inherent challenges in engendering a radical politics of change premised around principles of repair, alterity, and fugitivity. The author argues that theorizing Blackness and, by extension, Black repair...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2019
... inflected that music and to how that music inflected geopolitics. Reading the evolution of Jamaican music since independence, this essay reveals how the form of James’s novel replicates the spectral and shattered assemblages of dancehall music in order to borrow some of its fugitive, subaltern autonomy...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 129–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the figure of the non-norm, a central category for Wynter throughout the manuscript. The black presence in the New World is subterranean but omnipresent, fugitive but hypervisible, condemned as the non-norm and nonperson but the foundation for the concept of free citizenship in the Americas. Black experience...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 151–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
... a certain theoretical cul de sac in contemporary black studies theorizations that requires further thought if we are to diligently contemplate the stakes of freedom for black people globally. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 voice unfreedom fugitivity maroonage feminism Recently...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 40–49.
Published: 01 March 2013
... challenge in that it is not bound by one dimension. By focusing on the train, escaping the stultifying space of the Jim Crow car, she embraced a notion of black fugitivity that has informed New World black cultural practices from their inception: from the maroons to the fugitive slaves to the migrating...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of
the filmic and visual texts of black Canadian artists illuminate their efforts to reimagine subjects
and agents who undo the logic of empire through an aesthetic practice that is deeply invested
in a politics of liberation. These fugitive figures, these constantly escaping conscripts, are the
agents...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 59–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of a fugitive (as opposed to a linear) arc of temporality in our understandings of the region’s history and historical consciousness. This fugitive temporality comes into view in the final paragraph of his introduction, when he points out that although the nation-state still operates as a governing structure...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 185–193.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Césaire called the “hummingbird women.” 3 In the aftermath of this forum, this book, this self, Alejandra Bronfman emerges as that she. Her “Fugitive Sounds” gets inside the bones of Listening in Detail and her deeply moving prose manages to make beauty out of the getting it. Her gorgeous...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2023
... was elastic enough to describe the simultaneous arrival to the area of freed and fugitive African enslaved peoples from Georgia and the Carolinas, known as Black Seminoles. 5 Cimarrón appears to have emerged simultaneously to describe both animals and Native populations in the new conquered...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Confederation project, such as the two faces of the siblings Toba and Otuké looking at the landscape, one with passion, the other with melancholy. 1 If, as Chaar-Pérez argues, there is definitely a Romantic quality in the foundational political project of this fraternal story, it is in the fugitive...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 201–208.
Published: 01 July 2017
... of subterfuge and fugitivity; at times it resembles guerrilla warfare, in other moments it may appear as a pragmatist “war of position,” or what Arcadio Diaz Quiñonez describes as “el arte de bregar”: the art of coping, negotiating, navigating, evading, or subverting that that cannot be completely overturned...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 225–227.
Published: 01 November 2015
... tephen B est is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession (2004) and is currently working on a new project on slavery and the limits of historicist critique. C hristopher T. B onner...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 176–179.
Published: 01 March 2024
... he is also a core faculty member in the Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies. He is the author of Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond (2023). C harlotte R ogers is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. She is the author...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 80–88.
Published: 01 November 2011
... characterized by a significant paratext (testimonies, preface by the editor telling the circumstances of
the narrative, etc.) in order to certify the authenticity of the fugitive’s story.
3 Léon Gontran Damas, Pigments (Paris: Présence Africaine, 1939).
4 Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of an underwater retreat will quiet the tormenting wind, its sounds of “nigger nigger nigger from the depths / of the timeless sky,” or the “crazed howling of dogs and horses / which it thrusts at our forever fugitive heels.” 28 The poem closes with the description of a defiant scream that “shall shatter...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 122–132.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Minnesota Pipeline Expansion,” Common Dreams , 7 December 2018, commondreams.org . 33 I borrow “undercommons” from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (New York: Minor Compositions, 2013). On post-hurricane Puerto Rico, see Gustavo A. García-López...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 49–64.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and Jamaica, Saint-Domingue, Curaçao, and elsewhere involved in trading cattle, lumber, currency, and people. French, Dutch, and British slaves arrived in Spanish territories seeking to avail themselves of the possibilities afforded by the Spanish law of slavery, which offered freedom to fugitive slaves...
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