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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2024
...) The Question of German Guilt , based on a series of lectures delivered in 1945, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. 1 Jaspers had only recently been restored to the professorship in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg that had been stripped from him by the Nazis in 1937 because of his...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 104–110.
Published: 01 July 2015
... out from Cubanity to broader projects of something we might call Latinidad. In “Performing Greater Cuba: Tania Bruguera and the Burden of Guilt,” José declares himself “a proponent of pan-Latino coalition politics” and notes the guilt-inducing “historical preferences and advantages Cuban...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... 14 Baldwin, “The White Problem,” 76. 13 Jaspers, The Question of German Guilt , 64. 12 See Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non Event,” in Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (London: Beacon, 1997), 70–107. 11...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 93–110.
Published: 01 September 2003
... literature, its characteristics might include not only a sense of unbelonging and
anger at marginalization but also guilt over the colonial past, guilt at one’s own racism
and at the racism of one’s fellow white West Indians, guilt at one’s privilege, a terrifi ed
consciousness, that is, a fear...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 32–41.
Published: 01 October 2008
... a dictatorship that forced thousands to choose between exile or death.”19
The burden of guilt is one of the defining features of the “tired ghosts” of the Haitian diaspora.
Guilt at having survived while others were massacred. In The Farming of Bones this is drama-
tized through...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 76–82.
Published: 01 February 2007
... that condemned them to death have been
glossed over. Confessions that were signed under torture were accepted as truth. Witnesses’
stories could not be corroborated, and the jury chosen under a questionable selection process
was vocally asserting guilt before the trial even began. After...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 105–110.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of its members towards tyranny, elitism, judgment, hypocrisy, and high-
mindedness, thus poisoning the minds of people and further alienating them from God and
His message of love.
Years of guilt-ridden membership in the Catholic church, witnessing pharisaical behavior
from...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2014
... with, and that (b) looking at other cases similar to mines [ sic ], I didn't have to spent [ sic ] extensive time—even decades—in prison. People don't understand that I actually feel a guilt for that … . I can say that survivor's guilt is real.” 4 Her survivor's guilt, as she goes on to describe it, is not only...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 151–161.
Published: 01 July 2017
... you decide to do.” The mother dusts the shame and guilt off the daughter. Taking things to God and back, she is relentless with her kindness and love. The mother can still take her child on her back, delicate as a monarch's wing. The mother's face is like poured cassareep. She offers...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., the property of men, raped, rageful and retarded. 10 This image expresses the “pain, rage, guilt, shame, and grief” that she experiences for Bertha and for herself. Elsewhere, Stoddart writes of having forgotten herself in “the crushing collision of several traumatic histories.” 11 These traumatic...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 149–159.
Published: 01 June 2008
....”12 Anne ponders this man’s face, introspectively asking herself:
What if it were Constant? What would she do? Would she spit in his face or embrace him, acknowl-
edging a kinship of shame and guilt that she’d inherited by marrying her husband? How would she
even know...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2023
... wonder, What in the name of God are they doing here? What do they want? Knowledge? Absolution? What dimension of responsibility do I want them to feel for the evil violence and evil enrichment the slavery system produced? No one needs the cheap fragrance of their personal guilt or regret. But whoever...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 49–71.
Published: 01 September 2002
... duress: willful-
ness in dialogue with constraint). “Remittance,” then, is most usefully pressed into ser-
vice beyond its usual monetary associations. Money and goods sent to sites and people
left behind are inextricable from a sense of responsibility, attachment, guilt, and repara-
tions. . e...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 118–129.
Published: 01 July 2010
... is still fresh in my mouth. The guilt I felt for fainting, for
not being the one who fell off, for not saving her mid-fall is still raw.
Some nights it sits on the bed beside me. I remember my parents’
faces...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 154–167.
Published: 01 March 2012
...: man is a “prisoner of time” who
invariably “acts in conformity with the conventions of the society into which he is born”; “of
14 Elazar Barkan, The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2000), 286...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): v–x.
Published: 01 February 2007
..., their persuasive complaint that their guilt and conviction were determined on
the basis of an unfair trial” (1:39). Their cautious recommendation reads as follows: “It is in
the context of this perspective, therefore, and having regard to the need for both victims of
wrong doing and the alleged wrong doers...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 177–183.
Published: 01 June 2007
... slogan—“Liberty or Deathare
portrayed as powerful actions, and yet they never eliminate the deep complexities involved
in carrying out such choices. And there is always the sense in Bell’s novel that the conflict is
composed of layers of violence and death, of guilt and betrayal...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 69–75.
Published: 01 March 2024
... venture a generalization based more on personal and familial experience than on hard “data,” is undeniably fraught—with risk, danger, pain, shame, and guilt, as well as with longing, love, and desire. And while subjection to the public “gaze” in Jamaican culture is also fraught for Jamaicans born...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 193–199.
Published: 01 March 2010
... a foot or hand. The judicial code was preliminary to the
utterance of guilt and essential to its efficacy. In the French code the soul remained, no matter
the tortures, whether castration, flogging, roasting, branding, loss of ears, nose, hands, and
5 Thomas R. R. Cobb, An Inquiry into the Law...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2019
... describes the sky after seeing Tia as “so red” (123)—signals not naïve guilt but rather recognition of the blood on her hands and on the hands of her slave-owning ancestors in the Caribbean more broadly. Antoinette’s turn to the red sky in her dream following her powerful citations of rivers, mountains...
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