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The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 16–23.
Published: 01 September 2005
...J. Michael Dash Small Axe Incorporated 2005 The Theater of the Haitian Revolution /
The Haitian Revolution as Theater
J. Michael Dash
Th e theatre had come to a town without theatres, and as a theatre would have to be created, they took
advantage of a heaven-sent...
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The Myth of the Monolingual Haitian Reader: Linguistic Rights and Choices in the Haitian Literary Context
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 52–63.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Nadève Ménard French is usually referred to as an elite language in the context of Haiti. By contrast, Haitian Creole is acknowledged as the language of the people. In this essay, Nadève Ménard argues that it is crucial to move beyond this simplistic paradigm. While the Caribbean is generally...
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Haitian Novels and Novels of Haiti: History, Haitian Writing, and Madison Smartt Bell's Trilogy
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 163–176.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Martin Munro This essay reads Madison Smartt Bell's Haitian trilogy in the context of contemporary Haitian literature, and considers why Haitian writers have tended not to evoke the revolution in their work, and why it is an American author has produced the most ambitious work of Haitian historical...
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Visual Narratives of Cultural Memory and Diasporic Identities: Two Contemporary Haitian American Artists
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 84–99.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Jerry Philogene Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Visual Narratives of Cultural Memory and
Diasporic Identities: Two Contemporary
Haitian American Artists
Jerry Philogene
n examination of cultural production is useful to the understanding of the experi-
ences of diaspora...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 1–15.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Maximilien Laroche Small Axe Incorporated 2005 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Translated by Martin Munro. The Founding Myths of the Haitian Nation
Maximilien Laroche
he table of contents...
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Dessalines in Historic Drama and Haitian Contemporary Reality
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 24–39.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Marie-Agnès Sourieau Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Dessalines in Historic Drama and Haitian
Contemporary Reality
Marie-Agnès Sourieau
Qui donc ira jeter des fl eurs
Au Pont Rouge
A Vertières
Au Champ de Mars
Les off randes coulées dans la honte
Blessent...
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Haitian and Dominican E/migration and the (Re)construction of National Identity in the Poetry of the Third Generation
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 86–103.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Nicole Roberts Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Haitian and Dominican E/migration and the
(Re)construction of National Identity in
the Poetry of the Third Generation
Nicole Roberts
Nous allons vers un monde de nulle part. Cette marche forcée vers un monde uniforme a quelque chose...
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Blending with Motifs and Colors: Haitian History Interpreted by Édouard Duval Carrié
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 109–123.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Carl Hermann Middelanis Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Blending with Motifs and Colors:
Haitian History Interpreted by
Édouard Duval Carrié
Carl Hermann Middelanis
o discover traces of historical painting in Haiti, you would have to visit either the
Haitian Museum of National...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): viii–xiii.
Published: 01 September 2005
... September 2005
Profondes et nombreuses: Haiti, History, Culture, 1804–2004
Guest edited by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and Martin Munro
CONTENTS
Foreword
David Scott v
Introduction:
Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its...
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Pays-là chaviré : Revolutionary Politics in Nineteenth-Century Haitian Creole Popular Music
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 18–36.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Kate Hodgson “Certain songs have the power to overthrow a government,” Haitian president and musician Michel Martelly remarked on the eve of Carnival 2013, evoking a long-standing tradition of musical dissent in Haitian politics. The historic role of popular Creole-language songs in the political...
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Madison Smartt Bell's Toussaint at the Crossroads: The Haitian Revolutionary between History and Fiction
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 194–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Charles Forsdick Central to Madison Smartt Bell's trilogy of novels on the Haitian Revolution is the character of Toussaint Louverture. The article considers how Bell's Toussaint fits into two centuries of representations of the revolutionary leader, exploring in particular the ways in which his...
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Turning the Tide: The Problem of Popular Insurgency in Haitian Revolutionary Historiography
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 14–31.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Nick Nesbitt This article explores the conceptual problem of popular insurgency in Haitian revolutionary historiography. Framed by fundamental questions of legitimate versus illegitimate insurgency, of the relationship between the elites and the people, and of the process of democratization...
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Fictions of Displacement: Locating Modern Haitian Narratives
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 32–41.
Published: 01 October 2008
...J. Michael Dash This article challenges the notion of Haitian cultural exceptionalism, and the ways in which in the postindigenist era the peasant novel in general and Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée in particular became yardsticks for judging Haitian writing. Evoking contemporary...
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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
...Rachel Douglas This article argues that there is a conspicuous lack of representations of the Haitian revolution in most contemporary Haitian writing. Rather than writing explicitly about the Revolution, many Haitian writers “perform” revolutions in their own work. Frankétienne's work provides us...
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Theory versus Practice: On the Postcolonial Marginalization of Haitian Literature
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Rachel Douglas This review engages with fundamental questions regarding postcolonial canon formation and the marginalization of the Haitian Spiralist writers, the theory-centrism of postcolonial criticism, and “showing” versus “telling”—issues raised by Kaiama L. Glover's Haiti Unbound . Using...
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Haitian Mawonaj , the “Picaroons,” and Re-centering the Maritime Dimensions of Maroon History
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 128–135.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of Chicago Press, 2015). 8 See Sabine F. Cadeau, More Than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian–Dominican Borderlands (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022); and Marc C. McLeod, “Undesirable Aliens: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in the Comparison of Haitian...
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Régine Jean-Charles’s Black Feminist Ethical Reading of Twenty-First-Century Haitian Women’s Fiction
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by Régine Jean-Charles engages scholarship across multiple disciplines and fields—Haitian studies, Caribbean studies, Black feminist studies, media studies, ecofeminism, anthropology, geography, and history...
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Haitian Feminist Futures
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 215–224.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Régine Michelle Jean-Charles In response to the various review essays, this essay ponders the afterlives of Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by reflecting on the presence and absence in Caribbean literature of Haitian girls’ dreams for the future. The author...
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Occupying the Center: Haitian Girlhood and Wake Work
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 140–150.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Régine Michelle Jean-Charles This essay takes two images of Haitian girls in Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being as a point of departure to reflect on the iconography of Haitian suffering. It argues that Sharpe’s claim that the Haitian girl in the photo taken in the aftermath...
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Silence and Specters: The British Empire and the 1904 Haitian Commemorations of Independence
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Jack Daniel Webb This essay examines contests over Haitian history between Haitian state actors and British observers—such as diplomats, travel writers, and “journalists”—around the time of Haiti’s commemorations of the centenary of independence in 1904. This was a time for the Haitian people...
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