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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 99–114.
Published: 01 July 2018
... resources in the struggle for civil and human rights. Dominican LGBT activists also simultaneously challenge who and what universalized concepts of the human and citizen can encompass. 18 Skype interviews with the author: DCM, 8 December 2010; NHM, 10 November 2010; RR, 10 November 2010; VSD, 18...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 1–15.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of humanitarian redemption, feeding a collective gratification and the recognition that we “shared a common human condition,” reached its tipping point when analysts recommended razing Port-au-Prince to the ground in order to completely rebuild the city, and maybe the country. Some even went as far as saying...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... reveals a particular investment in a specific way of being human and questions what such investments mean for black liberation, gender relations, and power/knowledge. 82 Morgan, “Men Urged to Speak Out.” 81 Christine Barrow, “Sexual Identity, HIV, and Adolescent Girls in Barbados,” Social...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2016
... rife with internal diversity and a checkered history, and urges serious consideration of the interlaced human landscape pervading the region. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 When asked for some minor revisions on the original text of Caribbean Poetics for the second edition that Peepal Tree Press...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 46–62.
Published: 01 June 2007
... is contested through certain cinematic depictions of dread. Small Axe Incorporated 2007 “Whether Beast or Human”:
The Cultural Legacies of Dread,
Locks, and Dystopia
Kevin Frank
Ab s t r a c t : Analyzing the ongoing problem of Caribbean racial exploitation, particularly fear signi...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Gérarde Magloire-Danton Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Anténor Firmin and Jean Price‐Mars:
Revolution, Memory, Humanism
Gérarde Magloire-Danton
aiti’s radical revolution, which, as Anténor Firmin incisively put it, “aff ected the
economic system and moral order of all European...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... that “gender' plays in Frantz Fanon's work by revisiting his engagement with Mayotte Capécia's Je Suis Martiniquaise. For post-colonial subjects the assertion of one's humanity is simultaneously a claim of one's value. While, Caribbean feminists have deployed gender as the primary category through which...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2023
... now see more clearly that Black Heretics, Black Prophets is an account of what Bogues might have thought I was leaving out: underplaying. And yet it is much more than that. It is also the vivid expression of his own heretical humanism—a dissenting and revisionary and perhaps reparative humanism...
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in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 10 “Return the funds so that Haitians can truly live like humans.” PetroCaribe graffiti, unknown artist, Christophe Avenue, Port-au-Prince, 2020. Photograph by Adler Pierre
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 164–174.
Published: 01 July 2016
... optimism that democracy is the means of producing radical change in the region and given antidemocratic sentiments among the people, expressed most powerfully in low value for the human in the Jamaican context. Using Meeks's premise that ethical questions are at the heart of radical change, the essay...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Demetrius L. Eudell This essay illustrates how Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” reconceptualizes the question of labor as it relates to the history of blacks in the Americas and generally to the being of Being Human. It does so by situating Wynter's distinctive intervention within the context...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Nijah Cunningham As the recent revival of Sylvia Wynter's scholarship has commanded the attention of a younger generation of scholars, the special section of Small Axe dedicated to her “forgotten” work provides an occasion to reconsider the prehistory to her theory of the human. Rather than simply...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Charlotte Rogers In an era of deepening social and ecological calamity, artists from Puerto Rico currently address perennial questions of catastrophe in ways that foreground the island archipelago’s multispecies relationships: the dynamic assemblages of human and more-than-human organisms...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 106–121.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Charles V. Carnegie This essay argues that a noncontingent, nonexclusionary notion of humanity’s oneness— constituted through difference rather than denying it—provides a principled foundation for social renewal and repair at all social scales. This foundation of human oneness is essential...
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in On the Self-Evidence of Blackness: An Interview with Charl Landvreugd
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2014
Figure 1. Detail from Movement No. 7: On Edgar Cairo , with text, “Look how strong he is! Look how weak he is, Look how human he is.” Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, 2014. Photograph by Irene de Groot © National Museum of World Cultures, Netherlands
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 199–207.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the rest of the not-Haiti world to imagine and accept Haitians as somehow other than human. It is this positioning of Haiti at the extreme poles of the human condition that Glover calls into question in Haiti Unbound . In this essay, she attempts to respond to and push further the insightful points...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 4–25.
Published: 01 July 2009
... descent as a homogeneous branch of the human famly. The article invites reflection on the need to study the black experience internationally without a preordained narrative of racial self-affirmation, warning that the expectation that blacks will articulate their racial identity everywhere in the same way...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 169–179.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., identity is formed through contacts with others within the nexus of Relation and créolisation , whereas in his 2006 Une nouvelle région du monde , it is largely a question of the relationship between human beings and place. In this essay, Glissant's ideas are compared with those of the theorists...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 39–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Elvira Pulitano This interview addresses some of the most important issues explored in the fiction and nonfiction of Edwidge Danticat, such as migration, exile, home, language, Dyaspora, and the connection between stories and human rights action. The interview also discusses Danticat's activist...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 166–181.
Published: 01 November 2013
...—a history best seen from the experience of Caribbean societies and peoples. Third, that anthropology has the capacity to provide us with the necessary moral optimism to rethink the relation between plurality and universalism that grounds the human condition, but to do so we must first rescue the concepts...
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