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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the lives of actively silenced and marginalized black populations, yet posthumously his memory as an icon of black diasporic and more specifically Afro-Antillean historiography became either silenced or flattened. Vanessa K. Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 164–180.
Published: 01 November 2020
... as collective cultural memory, the other, the story of UCWI, has become understood and held as an institutionalized or local history. 31 However, bringing these two events together offers an opportunity for rethinking the critical focus that Caribbean literary historiography has placed on London...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 156–163.
Published: 01 February 2007
... in Contemporary Historiography Ron Sookram Historical writings on Grenada have so far concentrated mainly on the 1979–1983 revolution. Other areas of research and writing include: Grenada’s constitutional history, emigration and migration, religion and culture (though with an Afrocentric slant...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 22–37.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of Money and Banking in Trinidad and Tobago from 1789 to 1989 , published by the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, are useful surveys that make good use of local archives. 60 When it comes to the historiography of individual banks, especially of commercial banks and private investment banks, many...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 55–71.
Published: 01 March 2014
... followed abruptly by a dive into a confusing mix of instability. Caribbean historiography was furthered significantly six years later with the work of another Trinidadian, Eric Williams, with his Capitalism and Slavery. 18 A book of immense intellectual weight, it not only overturned the received...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 80–94.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Anne Eller Historiography of the nineteenth-century Caribbean often holds Santo Domingo (later, the Dominican Republic) to be something of an anomaly. This essay reconsiders that scholarship in a Pan-Caribbean frame, demonstrating how such a characterization can lead to a number of distortions...
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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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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Anne S. Macpherson This essay makes a case for comparative Caribbean historiography rooted in research that crosses linguistic, national, and imperial lines, through a discussion of Puerto Rican and Belizean working women from abolition to the 1930s. In illustrating the commensurability...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Melanie J. Newton This essay, an introduction to the special section on Caribbean historiography in this issue, reflects on Caribbean historiography's role in the pursuit of redress for historic injustices by exploring what three recent landmark legal developments reveal about Haiti's place...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Rose Réjouis This article argues that the concept of bricolage in the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss is part of a greater poetics, an underdog or “dark horse” poetics that advocates for “the culture of the weak” and embodies an activist historiography. This reexamination of Lévi-Strauss's work...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 43–47.
Published: 01 November 2017
...David Scott This essay introduces the project of rethinking the cultural-political historiography of Jamaica of which “The Jamaican 1960s” is a contribution. It sets out the question in relation to the idea of a Jamaican intellectual tradition. Specifically, it inquires into the way the idea...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 72–84.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Elizabeth S. Manley In the historiography of gender in the Dominican Republic, the stories of female martyrs loom large, substituting maternalist sacrifice for a more substantial treatment of women in the national narrative. This is particularly true for the twentieth century, in which the female...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 67–77.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of postcolonial sovereignty, this essay considers how climate crisis demands a refusal of the state form as the limit to a regional political horizon and a rejection of nationalist historiography as a basis for the project of Caribbean criticism. On 24 August 2019 a tropical depression formed...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 36–49.
Published: 01 July 2021
... Margot is praised as a maternal figure who gave Maelo the gift of rhythm, her story as a woman and artist has remained widely unheard. This essay examines her parallel presence and erasure in salsa historiography, taking her testimonios about her musical gift as offering a counternarrative that defies...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 199–209.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Jhon Picard Byron La nation est au coeur des débats de l’école haïtienne d’anthropologie/ethnologie. Malgré les désaccords autour de la question nationale animant les tenants de cette école, une certaine historiographie, inspirée par les lectures des postcolonial studies et des Africana studies...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 194–208.
Published: 01 June 2007
... character is to be situated between historiography and fiction. It addresses the extensive documentary foundations of Bell's fictional account, while highlighting the imagined interpretations essential to this refiguring of the revolutionary. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Madison Smartt Bell’s Toussaint...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 25–36.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Bonnie Thomas “Memory” has become one of the buzzwords of contemporary historiography. Sparked by the atrocities of the Holocaust and intimately bound up with the concept of trauma, memory studies has gained increasing prominence in many intellectual circles and is particularly useful when...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 7–21.
Published: 01 March 2013
... into the picture and historiography of Haitian radicalism. Claude-Narcisse describes Chauvet's rejection of feminist political community as the expression of her “phobia regarding any form of association, which, to her mind, could only lead to an execrable enlistment.” 14 This resolute nonalliance, I...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 193–202.
Published: 01 November 2013
... standards of presumably universal human relevance. Trouillot's important intervention in Western conceptions of history and historiography in Silencing the Past notwithstanding, the essay argues that the distinction he draws between “historicity 1” and “historicity 2” betrays his struggle with the continued...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 227–243.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Wendy Asquith As has recently been observed by Matthew J. Smith, “It is a peculiar feature of Haitian historiography that increased production of new literature often follows national crisis.” A parallel pattern has been evident in Haitian visual arts, yet this has not always been at the impulse...