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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Anthony Bogues Arguing that An Intellectual History of the Caribbean is an important text in the emerging field of Caribbean intellectual history, this essay suggests that missing from this important text is the working through of an intellectual history that grapples with black religious practices...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 116–131.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Monique A. Bedasse; Aaron Kamugisha This essay argues for an approach to postcolonial Caribbean intellectual history that moves beyond the national archive to rely on a globally dispersed archive. It uses Rastafari repatriation to Tanzania to highlight the intellectual history of the movement...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Aaron Kamugisha; Aaron Kamugisha This essay provides a meditation on the field of Caribbean intellectual history. Commencing with a reflection on the second edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta 1976), the essay proceeds to outline the contours of the field through a consideration...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 102–115.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Margo Groenewoud; Aaron Kamugisha This essay traces the roots of marginalization of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean studies, approaching these roots as an integral part of a shared Caribbean intellectual history. In the era of twentieth-century Caribbean anticolonialism, nationalism...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 June 2008
...José F. Buscaglia-Salgado Silvio Torres-Saillant's passionate defense of Caribbean intellectual traditions is far from being “an intellectual history of the Caribbean.” Nevertheless, this is an indispensable book, both for what it says and for the Antillean passion that drives the author's...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 84–94.
Published: 01 November 2023
...); Isaria Kimambo, Gregory Maddox, and Salvatory Nyanto, A New History of Tanzania (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota, 2017). 2 Andrew Sartori, “Global Intellectual History and the History of Political Economy,” in Andrew Sartori and Samuel Moyn, eds., Global Intellectual History (New York: Columbia...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
... is essentially the archaeological project that haunts Brathwaite’s work—the “archaeopoetics” that Bloomfield defines as experimental and exploratory writing that excavates histories normally excluded from mainstream historiography. Without detracting from the essay’s strategic intellectual politics...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
... theoretical models and methodologies. A far from exhaustive list would include M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing , Paget Henry’s Caliban’s Reason , Silvio Torres-Saillant’s An Intellectual History of the Caribbean , and Hanétha Vété-Congolo’s L’interoralité caribéenne . 5 To give a sense...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Devyn Spence Benson; Antonio López This essay recovers the history of 1960s and 1970s black movements in Cuba through an examination of works by Afro-Cuban intellectuals and their meetings with Caribbean thinkers to show the coexistence of mestizaje and black consciousness as a defining...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
... human as Homo oeconomicus , Economic Man. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Black intellectual history slavery colonialism black cultural forms capitalism Homo oeconomicus The task of Black scholarship for the Eighties will be to continue the theoretical delegitimation of the cultural universe...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 108–122.
Published: 01 July 2013
... to the making of the modern world. 12 Rather than seeking inclusion into the narrative of modernity, Caribbean intellectuals have built on the ideas of James and Williams and reframed the historical terrain of the modern. 13 These insights are profound; nevertheless, as a decolonization of history...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 25–36.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of trauma, memory studies has gained increasing prominence in many intellectual circles and is particularly useful when considering postcolonial issues. A number of key commemorative dates over the past two decades have set the scene for a re-visioning of French and francophone history: 1992...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 106–114.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Kuan-Hsing Chen Journals have played a central role in the formation of intellectual communities throughout Asia since modern times. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies : Movements , launched in 2000, is no exception, except that it has attempted to connect with local intellectual circles and to build...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., the author first discusses Rodney’s engagements with the University of California, Los Angeles, as part of a longer history of Black intellectual and political activism and the geographies of Black radicalism on campus. The author then explores the question of methodology in Rodney’s book, especially...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 99–107.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Nadi Edwards This reading of Edward Baugh's seminal 1977 essay highlights its contextual affiliations and affinities and its relation to an anglophone Caribbean critical discourse on the representation and significance of history. Nadi Edwards delineates the intellectual genealogy of the concept...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 199–205.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and history. Engaging with Ramírez's essay, Horn critically revisits her historical argument about how the Trujillo dictatorship (1930–61) and the preceding US occupation (1916–24) reshaped Dominican gender formations and masculinity in particular. In dialogue with Decena's essay, Horn discusses how...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 211–219.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Richard Price Conceived as a contribution to a 2014 symposium reconsidering Éloge de la créolité —written by three Martiniquan intellectuals—twenty-five years after its publication, this essay draws a distinction between the French use of créolisation as a mainly philosophical and poetic concept...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and intellectual contributions of theories of relationality and decolonial feminisms by women of color should be understood as theoretical and methodological tools for approaching some of the most peripheralized Afro-diasporic works. To that end, it examines the histories and the interconnected literary...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Maureen Warner-Lewis The transformation of Maureen Warner-Lewis’s intellectual career from colonial to postcolonial shaping was gradual and sometimes fortuitous. It involved a bifurcation in disciplines, evolving from English literary developments into Afro-Caribbean social and linguistic history...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... emergency and in a tradition of challenging the constrictions of modern (imperial) time, alive in both elite and popular currents of the Caribbean intellectual tradition. 1 See Richard Drayton, “The Caribbean Origins of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa ,” African Economic History 50, no. 2 (2022): 17...