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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 95–107.
Published: 01 July 2014
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 123–135.
Published: 01 July 2013
... simultaneously with an imaginary past and slippery future, all unmediated by physical geography. 24 Brodber, “Fiction in the Scientific Procedure,” 168. 23 Edward Kamau Brathwaite, “Caribbean Man in Space and Time,” Savacou , nos. 11–12 (September 1975): 1, 7. 22 Ibid. (ellipsis in original...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2016
... transnationalism to explain the Antillean person's mobility across polities; and conflating the tellurian geography of the region with the diasporic locales of Caribbean-descended citizens of Western metropolises. The essay advises the humble recognition of the Caribbean as a not easily learned culture area, one...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Hilda Lloréns Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Dislocated Geographies:
A Story of Border Crossings
Hilda Lloréns
Sunrise of the fi rst day and the passengers were already acting as though they belonged to one family.
It was not long before we came to know each other’s life...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., the author first discusses Rodney’s engagements with the University of California, Los Angeles, as part of a longer history of Black intellectual and political activism and the geographies of Black radicalism on campus. The author then explores the question of methodology in Rodney’s book, especially...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... an alternative—ancestral—terrain within the interior geographies of Indigenous Blackness. By framing ethnographic vignettes of Garifuna ancestral memory throughout the diaspora as an embodied archive of knowledge production, this essay demonstrates how Brathwaite’s mapping of an intellectual genealogy creates...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2024
... vision and light. She contemplates what we cannot see in these images: buried entities that formed a network of power known to enslaved people, engaging Katherine McKittrick’s theory of Black geographies. Through these entities, people of African descent established blood ties with the earth of Jamaica...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Katherine McKittrick This essay explores plantation geographies. In drawing specific attention to the ways past configurations of the plantation are recast in post-slave urban contexts, the discussion signals the links between black dispossession and geography, while also considering how assertions...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 22–39.
Published: 01 March 2013
... politics but also the touchlines of the modern political field. This essay engages questions related to the function of geography in black political thought, to diaspora, to the significance of space, and to the possible readings of the postcolonial moment, as well as the political salience of sound...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., nonlinguistic forms, and spatial geography, along with orality, suggest that the author attempts to radically reconsider the way creole folk culture should be translated into writing. 7 Walter Benjamin, “The Task of the Translator,” in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections , ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
... powerfully offers something other than a methodology through which the circulation of Caribbean geographies, politics, epistemologies, and its people’s lived experiences moves outward to provide analytical and conceptual service for metropolitan centers, even if for ostensibly decolonial purposes. The essay...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 102–120.
Published: 01 November 2015
... essai (2013). Chamoiseau's attempt to weave Césaire into a tradition that includes Saint-John Perse, Edouard Glissant, and—most prominently—the French poet René Char leaves us with many questions: What is the complex geography of legacy? What happens when substantially different poets are pressed...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 185–193.
Published: 01 March 2016
...—and also to encourage experimentation with how music is researched. Listening, especially for those who work in musical geographies and traditions where documentation is far from comprehensive and ordered, is different from close reading. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Sound studies Miami...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 8–26.
Published: 01 July 2013
... studies rather than area studies, given the former's focus on the geography rather than culture; the notion of a repeating, fractal island form rather than the isolated desert isle of colonial discourse; relationality rather than difference in defining Caribbean identities; and the visual traces...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
...SJ Zhang This essay proposes the historical term simarrona (used in colonial Louisiana archives) as a heuristic for unlearning certain reading practices of the term maroon and its persistent “etymology plot.” Simarrona not only troubles the neat linguistic geographies of the term maroon...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and animated by metaphors of creolization that derive from the archipelago’s geology, geography, and history. Ultimately, “Caribbean Man,” while immured in the nationalist sensibility of the 1970s, eschews a reductive nationalist politics for a more expansive notion of nation and community akin to Wilson...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 178–185.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Rivke Jaffe This review essay enters into conversation with Greg Beckett’s 2019 There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince to think through the geographies and temporalities of how crisis is known. Focusing on the urban Caribbean, it interrogates broadly circulating...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Katherine McKittrick’s and Sylvia Wynter’s work on plantation geographies, the author argues that the gulley, a site of mass burial in the center of the song, was also a site of Black cultural expression and futurity—a place where death and life, torture and escape, enslavement and freedom collided...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and the geographies they inhabit. Although a year separates the publication of the debut novels by Dominican Americans Nelly Rosario and Angie Cruz, these are two extraordinary texts that deal with the marginalization of the Dominican people, especially women, through the figure of the ghost. Both novels feature...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Leniqueca A. Welcome This essay shows that despite the variegated experience of Black-identified people globally and the unstable and processual nature of Blackness as a category, the meaning of Blackness remains anchored in the geography of the plantation, and the deathliness this produces still...
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