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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 211–219.
Published: 01 March 2017
... as the anthropological/historical approach to creolization and only moved toward the aesthetic/poetic version (the one most closely associated with his thought today) later in his life. See Dominique Chancé, “Édouard Glissant, de l'anthropologie à l'esthétique,” in “Entours d' Édouard Gliisant,” ed. Valérie Loichot...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2019
... and critiques European historiographical methods. Whereas writers such as Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor present Negritude, paradoxically, as both establishing continuity between the modernist present and the African past and marking a historical break from their poetic predecessors, Sainville argues...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 80–88.
Published: 01 November 2011
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the series of epigraphs.
This allusion to “Hoquet” reinforces, from the outset, the poetics of staggering that seek
to reappropriate the physical and moral conditions of the captive female bodies represented
in Humus and unveil the historical and anthropological traces of the Middle Passage. I...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 86–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to Césaire's poetic legacy, his theory of Negritude, his relationship to Marxism, and his intellectual partnership with his wife, Suzanne Césaire. What emerges is a sense of Césaire's legacy as a living legacy, firmly rooted in a specific historical context but revealing different facets of its structure...
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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 (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
... would, in different ways, have to contend with McTurk’s minstrel legacy. B.Etherington@westernsydney.edu.au Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 “Quow” (Michael McTurk) Creole poetry literary minstrelsy early Caribbean literature historical poetics The early phases...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... The boundary lines between the haves and the have-nots are blurry. And power relationships and their historical effects infuse all our societies” (quoted in Dianne Glave, “An Interview with Nalo Hopkinson,” Callaloo 26, no. 1 [2003]: 153). 28 Glissant, Poetics of Relation , 108, 153. 29 Ibid...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of a nonlinear liminality. As a female-authored narrative
created by the tensions and ambiguities inherent in a migrating historicity of cane, the kala
pani poetics critically evaluates prior disavowals of Indo-Caribbean female subjectivity by
locating these interstitial spaces of self...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2011
..., the para-
digmatic experience of global modernity. Glissant acknowledges that this apocalyptic “debase-
ment” is the force that “dissolves” and collapses historical, social, and ontological certainties,
representing a radical newness for which no extant poetic or political modality can be adequate...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 21–32.
Published: 01 November 2010
... the European novel with reference to the `novel of the South' (exemplified by Chamoiseau and Rushdie), his view of the latter still shows no awareness of Glissant's connection of a poetics of Caribbean and Alter-American `self-recovery' with a perspective on world-wide cultural diversity and relationality...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the aesthetic labor of dub poetry is reduced to racist humor, “pling, ying, jing / ding,” justifying the violent rejection, “we'll shoot, tie, and hang you”—lies a poetic refusal of assimilation and appropriation. By answering with nothing to the charge, “Hey! Hey! Hey!,” and to the question, “Are you?,” Allen...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 189–197.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of “dougla poetics.”
What is the argument that we need to read Myal’s mulatto poetics in relation to the
1865 Morant Bay Rebellion (162–7) if not an argument for diachronic reading—and
indeed for the mobilization of historical memory? That discussion takes place, moreover,
as part of a larger debate...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of “dougla poetics.”
What is the argument that we need to read Myal’s mulatto poetics in relation to the
1865 Morant Bay Rebellion (162–7) if not an argument for diachronic reading—and
indeed for the mobilization of historical memory? That discussion takes place, moreover,
as part of a larger debate...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 218–229.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of “dougla poetics.”
What is the argument that we need to read Myal’s mulatto poetics in relation to the
1865 Morant Bay Rebellion (162–7) if not an argument for diachronic reading—and
indeed for the mobilization of historical memory? That discussion takes place, moreover,
as part of a larger debate...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 230–232.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of “dougla poetics.”
What is the argument that we need to read Myal’s mulatto poetics in relation to the
1865 Morant Bay Rebellion (162–7) if not an argument for diachronic reading—and
indeed for the mobilization of historical memory? That discussion takes place, moreover,
as part of a larger debate...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to show that both the philosophers and the poet challenged, for a short and intense moment, the power relation between poetic and political knowledge in a way that can inform current debates about corruption of knowledge. In a primarily historical first part, I focus on the organization of the congress...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that “aceptamos categorías colonialistas,” when in fact the Caribbean has many historic cross-border commonalities, like the history of forming part of an African diaspora, or the history of migration, which Márquez defines as “un fenómeno cultural del Caribe.” 45 The bilingual poetic forms, like the history...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 138–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
... for his impotence, his failure to take decisive action: Aimé Césaire's death in 2008 may have marked the official end of historic Negritude. But the outpouring of tributes to him showed that Negritude as a passion and a poetics has always stayed news, far removed from the “forgetting machine” whose...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 138–150.
Published: 01 November 2013
.... Translation operates not simply across languages but also across media and across literary forms. To acknowledge the historical and political weight of these nonequivalent practices is to understand poetics in/of translation as inevitably revisionist, as invested in what Williams calls a “reconsideration...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
...,” the contiguity of the primal and the modern within the same society, and encourages our “postmodernist questioning of the unity and objectivity of [historical] periods.” 18 Lévi-Strauss's dark horse poetics can be summed up this way: man's Neolithic intelligence—first revealed in “primitive” cultures...
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