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Archive as Offering: Haiti and Historical Possibility
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., this essay ultimately considers experimental historical practices as an opportunity to intervene in the presumed teleology of Black women’s lives through the practice of archival offering. In this context, the accident scene sketch resonates harm. It shows not only the violence of the collision articulated...
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Beyond Trouillot: Unsettling Genealogies of Historical Thought
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 132–154.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Marlene L. Daut; Aaron Kamugisha This essay explores the genealogy of historian and anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s writings as related to broader trends in historical scholarship. The author suggests that it was through Silencing the Past ’s acceptance and ascendance within the very North...
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C. L. R. James and George Lamming: The Measure of Historical Time
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 39–70.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Bill Schwarz Small Axe Incorporated 2003 C. L. R. James and George Lamming:
The Measure of Historical Time
Bill Schwarz
I believe deep in my bones that the mad impulse which drove Powell to his criminal defeat was largely
my doing. I will not have this explained away by talk...
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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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Historical Temporality and Generational Identity: Of Standoffs and Stalled Time
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Mimi Sheller Poised between violent repetitions of state power and hopes for poststate alternative futures, in our dual role as historical actors and historical narrators, what do we do with the past today, with which past(s) and for whom? This essay asks about the ethical/political stakes...
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Imaging historical traces: Virtual Exiles project [2000]: [ http://www.mediascot.org/exiles/ve/index.html ]
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 235–241.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Roshini Kempadoo Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Imaging historical traces: Virtual Exiles project [2000]
[httpwww.mediascot.org/exiles/ve/index.html]
Roshini Kempadoo
Virtual Exiles is a digital print and Internet artwork, based on material from Guyana I collected and
created between...
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Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
.... In so doing, the authors highlight the ways historical gender and racial stereotypes inform contemporary understandings of Caribbean gender and sexuality. Anchoring this discussion in recent theories about sex and sexuality and specifically examining mixed-race and white Caribbean women, Sam Vásquez...
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White Mythologies
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
...,” Hispanic American Historical Review 99, no. 3 (2019): 431–65; and “Rumors of Slavery: Defending Emancipation in a Hostile Caribbean,” American Historical Association 122, no. 3 (2017): 653–79. On sugar cane mills, see Juan José Ponce Vázquez, Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance...
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A Return to the Anticolonial: History as Weapon on the Caribbean Battlefield
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Audra A. Diptée This essay presents a strategy for putting anticolonial thought in praxis through the critical application of historical thought. It suggests a method of inquiry that is problem oriented and geared toward countering hegemonic discourses. The methodological approach proposed argues...
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Erotic Synergies and Variances in the Sexual Vernacular of the Postcolonial Dutch Caribbean
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Wigbertson Julian Isenia This keyword essay traces the historical trajectory of the term kambrada . It argues for a broader understanding of Caribbean sexual dynamics, utilizing sources ranging from travelogues and novels to modern activist interviews. Kambrada , which is akin to mati in Suriname...
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Genres of History and the Practice of Loss: Attending to Silence in Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Marisa J. Fuentes This book discussion essay addresses critical questions concerning historical methodologies when working with the archives of Atlantic-world slavery. Thinking with Hazel V. Carby’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands , the essay considers the power of historical memoir...
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The Trouble with History
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 193–202.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Stephan Palmié This essay takes its departure from Michel-Rolph Trouillot's discussion of what he calls North Atlantic universalisms, that is, categories that took their origin in the particulars of the West's historical experience but have come to be extended and naturalized as quasi-normative...
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History and the Idea of Hispanic Caribbean Studies
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 49–64.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the idea of Hispanic Caribbean studies for the historical study of the region. Historically, the Hispanic Caribbean at times included islands and colonies such as Jamaica, Trinidad, and Saint-Domingue. Patterns of migration further complicate the boundaries of the Hispanic Caribbean, as diaspora renders...
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When Spirits Talk: Reading Erna Brodber's Louisiana for Affect
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 90–102.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Jenny Sharpe Erna Brodber's historical interest in oral accounts as a source of emotional realities and social-psychological responses is expanded in her experimental novel Louisiana to include supernatural and extra-ordinary phenomena. Her incorporation of spirit possession into the life...
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Canonizing De Kom: Sacrality, Blackness, and the Nation in Postcolonial Netherlands
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 59–66.
Published: 01 March 2023
... status as ancestor. Highlighting these processes of sacralization allows a critical rereading of how De Kom is inscribed in postcolonial politics of memory in the Netherlands. The focus by postcolonial historians on historical accuracy and reading archives against or “along the grain” is crucial...
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Insurgent Knowledges: Reading How Europe Underdeveloped Africa alongside the Rupture in Guyana
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 177–193.
Published: 01 November 2023
... suggest that this historical conjuncture and such a relational reading—in contrast to one that considers Rodney’s Caribbean, African, and Guyanese years separately or with little attention to the dynamic overlap of context—provide important insights into Rodney’s radical historical praxis as a model...
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Universalism in Unevenness: Writing History at the Hill
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 84–94.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that the book offers a methodology of writing history, both in terms of the periodic expanse of such a history and positing the historical problematic. She argues that Rodney produces a universal history insofar as universality is assumed in the social relations of exploitation and consequently solidarities...
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Seeing the World through a Puerto Rican Lens: Decolonial Critique in Boricua Beats
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Agustín Laó-Montes This review essay of Rocio Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) argues that it is a book about contemporary Puerto Rico and its world-historical significance that engages this endeavor with depth and breath, carefully crafting its own argument, through...
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A Poetics of Postmourning: Elegy and the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Jahan Ramazani Whereas the historical trauma of the Middle Passage and enslavement has been a prominent subject of Caribbeanist scholarship, there is surprisingly little sustained consideration of how poems and other imaginative works mourn this violent past, even though melancholic grief...
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Negritude’s Problem with History: The Case of Léonard Sainville
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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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