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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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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 (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Minkah Makalani One of the appeals of imagining a future alternative to the political present is the possibility of shedding modernity’s constitutive colonial assemblages and its conceit of the inevitability of human progress. Yet it remains something of a paradox that even at their most radical...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of that island became the subject of the 1952 study Jamaica española by the Sevilla-based historian Francisco Morales Padrón (1923–2010). 18 Curaçao, to name only one more site suitable for an exploration of the interlaced human landscape in the Caribbean, can alert us to the challenge of thinking the human...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 29–49.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the same treatment. One reason may be scholars' handling of history. As “vodunland” and Tooy's suspension of the laws of time and space travel imply, historical starting points are nebulous, nonexistent, or irrelevant in these contexts. But with humans' diasporas, culture and identity locate them in place...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 169–179.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Celia Britton The theme of identity runs throughout Édouard Glissant's work and constitutes one of his most original contributions to postcolonial thought. It is always considered in relation to change, but his formulations of both identity and change themselves change in the course of his career...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 159–166.
Published: 01 July 2023
... affirm the respectability of the region’s inhabitants. Gosine’s investment in understanding and dismantling the historical hold of needing to prove one’s humanity, the author argues, falls in line with a movement among a multidisciplinary field of queer artists and scholars who embrace animality...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
Published: 01 July 2023
... an extended rumination on the interplay of coercion and choice, identity, and the impossibility of being. Gosine moves between these ontological parameters, recognizing them as ones that turn on the “five centuries–long struggle put to Caribbean people to prove [them]selves human and not wild animals” (3...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 28–36.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Bonnie Thomas Rodney Saint-Éloi is one of the most exciting contemporary writers of Haitian origin, and yet his work is little studied in the academic world. Saint-Éloi, who was born in Haiti in 1963 and migrated to Montreal, Canada, in 2001, has maintained a long and distinguished career...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
... for a number of reasons. It is arguably the most important unpublished nonfiction work by an anglophone Caribbean intellectual and one major guide to the transition in Wynter's thought between her work mainly on the Caribbean and black America in the 1960s and 1970s and her theory of the human from the early...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 79–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the refusal of black humanity. Every line of the text is sutured to black life. As one reads the monograph, the brutal and racist imperative to totally negate black peoples in slave and postslave eras is undone by Wynter's documentation of a range of black rebellions: marronages, mutinies, funerals, carnivals...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 43–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
..., which led to a cultural studies initiative, followed by the commencement of a graduate program in cultural studies within the last decade. 4 Cultural Studies is now one of the most popular graduate programs in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the West Indies, with over two hundred...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 90–102.
Published: 01 November 2012
... with the human one forces a rethinking
of historical time and silences in language.29 This might explain why the novel provides the
reader with more than one conceptual metaphor for understanding its alternative knowledge
system, the first of them from a Jamaican folk tale.
Ella derives a lesson...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Heretics, Black Prophets develops a counterpoint to this enduring form of racism by demonstrating the distinctive conception of the human that animates a political theory of society. One chapter that is to my mind especially illuminating is the one on Julius Nyerere (1922–99), the political thinker...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 187–200.
Published: 01 July 2023
... There is no “please” or “thank you,” as one might say to another human, only forced direction, beginning with the cordoning of the cage of the interrogation room. “Go there and wait.” “Sit there.” Official signage like “Do not use electronics” echo and give license to this kind of dehumanizing speech. Perhaps Mr...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 173–185.
Published: 01 November 2010
... of multiple philosophical and daily meanings that make its
application here cumbersome. I ran into a similar problem in 1992 by coining a phrase—synaesthetic system—to describe
not the scientific/poetic translation of one sense into another (synaesthesia) but simply the organization of human sense...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2024
... bodies? It is worth recalling the obvious: “Black people live . . . beyond negative projection of white consciousness” (29). It is as if many black people have surrendered to the view that we are what we are imagined to be by those who refuse to see us as human beings. It is one thing for nonblack...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.
Published: 01 November 2013
... workable, and alterable, geographic practices. Inventory demands ethical engagement. Brand's work often refuses a commitment to our present order of things; she writes geography and her own political affiliations to space, as assertions of humanness rather than tacked to one side of an insider...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 84–92.
Published: 01 November 2009
... nothingness. These altarpieces dedicated
to unknown gods were a metaphorical way to bring forth the past and to recall and remember
that the world does not start with Christopher Columbus, does not start with the destruction
of one part of humanity.
For a long time, I was torn between the urgent...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
... be explained—at least not yet—based on biology alone. Immanuel Kant accounts for human dignity through the distinctly human capacity for moral choice, a notion that Fukuyama endorses while reminding that there is still no scientific proof of that. 2 Our capacity for moral choices remains one of the core...
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