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Kutiya Geometries
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 247–255.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Steve Ouditt Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Kutiya Geometries
Steve Ouditt
On transatlantic plantations in coolie sugar belts in the Caribbean, beginning in the mid-
1800s, indentured immigrants from India were composing their new migrant lives. Central
to their new lives were...
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The Dimensions
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 164–166.
Published: 01 March 2010
..., reorienting the geometry of empire. At once, time compressed
and space contracted. Movement expanded: length, breadth, depth. Speed extended: slow-
ness relinquished and fastness retained. Perception was obliterated, groundless. Perspective
effaced, hanging.
The work of speed made it difficult...
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Oozing between Dimensions: Multiple Perspectives on the Real in the Works of Nicole Awai
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 43–56.
Published: 01 March 2017
... rules, as mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot glosses in The Fractal Geometry of Nature : “A point is that which has no part. A line is breadthless length. The extremities of a line are points,” and so on. 3 Euclid's definitions essentially describe the laws that govern dimension , that is, how we...
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The Sign of the Loa
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 124–149.
Published: 01 September 2005
... with clever geometry, reminded me again of the kind
of skill that would be required in the execution of the vèvè.
24. Veerle Poupeye, Caribbean Artt (London: Th ames and Hudson, 1998), 168.
25. I am well aware that there is no one Haitian style and that neither the past nor...
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On Reading Continental Shifts and Considering the Works of Edouard Duval Carrié
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 151–164.
Published: 01 October 2008
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as sacred spaces, what if we were to follow Spinoza’s advice and try to describe with the language
of geometry, or come up to date with an attitude toward forces and energies similar to those of
contemporary physicists or neurophysiologists and researchers into cognition and perception?
That is, all...
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Within Earshot of Africa—Meditations on The Sound of Culture
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 159–171.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Eshleman and Annette Smith, bilingual ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), 88; “the lightning geometry of the fer-de-lance” (“Gunnery Warning,” 89). The original French evokes mathematical technologies embedded in the snake’s three-sided head, a trigonocéphale in ways the translation...
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Virtual Islands: Mobilities, Connectivity, and the New Caribbean Spatialities
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
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est in fragmentation gave way to an obsession with fluidity. . . . It was a slow transition away
from Euclidean, ninety-degree geometries to other paradigms.”16 Her partner in Zaha Hadid
Architects (ZHA), Patrik Schumacher, elaborates on the ways in which in their buildings
13. See Mike...
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Afro-philo-sonic Fictions: Black Sound Studies after the Millennium
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 173–179.
Published: 01 July 2014
... bodies through frequent recourse to “classical Greek geometry, philosophy and grammar” ( SB , 275). And he is not intimidated by decolonial criticisms that his copious use of classical Greek rhetoric and philosophy might draw, such as his evocation of the logos/ethos/pathos triad or, elsewhere, chronos...
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Rereading the Diminutive: Caribbean Chaos Theory in Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 20–36.
Published: 01 March 2015
... sustains by upending Newtonian chronological time and Euclidean linear-based geometry, two examples of scientific epistemologies that privilege order over disorder. Rejecting received knowledge has a particular importance for Harris with regard to the context of literary history: according to Paul Sharrad...
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Germaine, Evangeline, and Other “Negro Girls”: Rudy Burckhardt's Caribbean
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2012
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as a tumbling, patchwork geometry of rust-, ochre-, and sepia-toned shapes. Burckhardt
cuts between images of the ornamental fretwork of the eaves and gables of local houses, of
signboards and advertisements for Canadian Healing Oil and Port Wine (“a wine of quality
and of the Roman...
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The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Postcolonial Caribbean Discourse: Transnationalism and Anticolonialism in Creole Recitations
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 186–196.
Published: 01 July 2011
... their practical application students should learn “elementary practical
geometry.” . . . Critiquing “high class education” for teaching the mythical characters’ of Rome
and Greece without the history of those places, Thomas denounced the lack of teaching of
West Indian history. (61...
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Julián del Casal
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 131–154.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and mysterious geometry, where mystery is minimal and geometry superficial, limit the vast stirrings that the poet must tame and the others that result from his fierce and total afflictions. Hence, the subject of the rose unfurls in the brief poem, the suite , and the harp solo; from Horace until the venerable...
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Solving Caribbean Mysteries: Art, Embodiment and an Eye for the Tropics
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 133–144.
Published: 01 February 2008
... scenes and “the culture”, are the site of
true independence from foreign capital, criticism and taste.
6. Margaret A. Hagen, Varieties of Realism: Geometries of Representational Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1986...
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Reprising the Past, Imagining the Future
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 187–198.
Published: 01 July 2016
... in the Grenadian catastrophe. In the fourth, he argues that my failure, as he perceives it, to engage more frontally with the contemporary geometry of Jamaican class relations and the political parties renders that engagement too abstract and undermines the saliency of my proposals for the country's future. From...
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From Aesthetics to Allegory: Raphaël Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 89–99.
Published: 01 November 2013
... method of approaching storytelling might reshape what we can refer to as a literary Cartesian geometry (from which it nonetheless borrows) because it seeks to imbue its sense of narrative with a pedagogy highlighting creole cultural specificities. This sense of ethnographic didacticism, according...
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Dark Horse Poetics: Lévi-Strauss, Benítez-Rojo, and Caribbean Epistemology
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
... with respect to geometry by a mathematician whose name appears in the writings of Lévi-Strauss: Félix Klein … . From this perspective there are no favored objects. Any myth may be the point of departure for obtaining a whole transformation group … . Diversity becomes compatible with unity. 15 Lévi-Strauss...
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Haitian Revolutions in Literature: The Case of Linguistic and Visual Inventiveness in Frankétienne
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 58–70.
Published: 01 October 2008
..., to which he refers for the
7. See, for example, Frankétienne’s explanation of his notion of the spiral in a 1992 interview in Callaloo, where he
discusses the importance of spirals to biology, geometry, and astronomy, and also points to ways in which he and
other writers...
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Art History and the Dialogics of Diaspora
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 213–227.
Published: 01 July 2012
... instantly saw that in breaking with dominant picture-making traditions, whose Euclidean geometry requires a fixed separation between the subject who looks and the world that is looked at, Bearden opened a representational space that was “itself eloquent of the sharp breaks, leaps in consciousness...
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What Is an Island? Caribbean Studies and the Contemporary Visual Artist
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 8–26.
Published: 01 July 2013
... live on islands that are culturally the same. Rather, unlike the desert isle, the repeating creole island retains a sense of the recurring tensions between settlement and movement, closeness to and distance from, in the fractal geometry of a Caribbean that works against difference with multiplying...
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Returns to a Native Land: Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Anglophone Caribbean
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2013
... colours of men of science but with the geometry of my spilt blood, I accept.” 68 This concept of “original geography” can serve as a starting point for approaches to the Caribbean's past that do not replicate colonizing narratives about any group of people in order to demonstrate the humanity of others...
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