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The Soundings with My Sisters: Sovereignty, Intimacy, Disappointment
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 124–137.
Published: 01 November 2017
...] was unacceptable, like my father's, my destiny too was to be good for nothing. My mother told me this constantly” (17). postemancipation indentureship decolonization intimacy Beverley Manley Neville Dawes To see the Jamaican 1960s through the romantic haze of party politics, as I learned to do...
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Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman : Intimacies, Proximities, Relationalities
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
... approach that reveals and challenges the epistemic violence of the official archive. Her analysis incisively attends to the relationships between empire, intimacy, and violence without sacrificing attention to either the devastating effects for women or the multiple ways Indian women refused to be defined...
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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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Imperial Intimacies —Further Thoughts
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 198–203.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Hazel V. Carby Reflecting on arguments and insights in the discussion essays by Eddie Chambers, Marisa Fuentes, and Marc Matera on the author’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands , this response essay focuses on the dilemma of black feminist critique, practice, methodology, and pedagogy...
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When the Moon Waxes Red : Afro-Asian Feminist Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Indenture
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
... allows for a transnational women-of-color feminist critique of political culture in South Africa. By examining Khan's aesthetic practice, I analyze the manner in which she forges a transnational Afro-Asian feminist intimacy that links Africa, Asia, and the Americas by emphasizing the various forms...
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Music, Politics, and Pleasure: Live Soca in Trinidad
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2010
... politics of pleasure and the cultural work that live soca performances achieve through the creation of what I refer to as intimacies . Drawing on Lisa Lowe's critical insights, I use the word “intimacy” in two ways: to speak about the spatial proximity soca helps create, and to address the variety...
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Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of Caribbean Chinese familial intimacies from the colonial archive. Engaging shared themes of migration and racialized ideas of reproduction, three contemporary diasporic visual artists—Albert Chong, Richard Fung, and Tomie Arai—mine oral histories and family archives to blend aural and visual narratives...
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The Beginning is the End and the End is the Beginning
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 147–158.
Published: 01 July 2023
... is the Beginning —which is an attempt to unlearn the aesthetics of photography and the politics of the image in the midst of catastrophe. The entire series focuses on exploring intimacy in physical spaces during catastrophes, and in the case of La Soufrière, the photographer’s relationships with kin and friends...
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Maroon In/Securities
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of survival. It discusses Maroon insecurity as a feeling forged in the unsettled intimacies of colonial relations. This feeling, in several ways, structured relations between Maroons and plantations and impacted the organization of daily life across both frontiers as well as the deployment of a range...
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An Intimate History of Empire
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Marc Matera Through a combination of critical memoir and family history, Hazel V. Carby’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands offers an intimate history of empire—an excavation of close connections across space and time, of empire’s presence in the most intimate spaces and relationships...
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Zippin’ Up My Boots, Going Back to My Routes
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 186–197.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Eddie Chambers This discussion essay on Hazel V. Carby’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands considers the contrasting ways the dominant society and the people of the African diaspora approach and regard research into family histories. Beginning with reflections on the somewhat dreaded...
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Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructures of Reggae
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 97–127.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Tao Leigh Goffe; Deborah A. Thomas This essay examines the political economy of Caribbean cultural capital and the formation of reggae in Jamaica in the 1950s. Through study of the Afro-Asian intimacies and tensions embedded in the sound of preindependence Jamaica, the essay traces the birth...
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Venus in Two Acts
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2008
... the convergence of terror and pleasure in the libidinal economy of slavery and, as well, the intimacy of history with the scandal and excess of literature. In writing at the limit of the unspeakable and the unknown, the essay mimes the violence of the archive and attempts to redress it by describing as fully...
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Heading South : Love/Sex, Necropolitics, and Decolonial Romance
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
... between the United States and Haiti and black and white bodies, the film engages with the limits of transracial, heterosexual romance in sex tourism. The impossibility of romance shows that for Haitian citizens, nationalist redemption lies in politics not in transracial intimacies. However, politics...
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Dub Poetry as a Black Atlantic Body-Archive
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Phanuel Antwi Rereading dub poetry under the pressures of and with the resources of black feminist and queer theory, and treating the practice of dub poetry as a production of a sound archive, one that embodies and aurally animates the intimacies of the black Atlantic, this essay highlights...
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A Case for Relation: Mapping Afro-Latinx Caribbean and Equatoguinean Poetics
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of the intimate. I argue that these texts not only document how the intimacies of dictatorship, occupation, and coloniality dictate how Afro-Atlantic and black femme subjects live and die and what they consume, but also track the development of ravenous quests for corporeal and erotic freedom. Analyzing the often...
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A Spirit of Inquiry: Convening Jamaica as Method
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 181–186.
Published: 01 November 2020
... reserved for key reflections around the conference table, where our summaries, evaluations, suggestions, and disagreements were given the space to be voiced and heard. 4 As a growing community of engaged collaborators, we were creating in real time the intimacy and safety to say things we might...
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A Loving Freedom: A Caribbean Feminist Ethic
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
.... But by its very nature it is a scarce grounding; you simply cannot be prepared for
how you will feel and experience the unfolding and different reconstitutions of her appeals
about the profound elemental forms of intimacy that she says are essential to a good life.
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A Queer Pier: Roundtable on the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
Published: 01 March 2013
... we think about that ? And you don't even know that they are there all the time. So I think there is something about knowing the intimacy of that kind of policing that is linked to—again, I am just pulling from papers we just heard because they are so resonant for me—that problem of how do you work...
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Kith and Kin: The Making of Queer Communities
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 147–155.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of Friendship,” TSQ 1, no. 3 (2014): 352–67. 28 Russo Garrido, Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy , 60. 27 On families of choice, see Kath Weston, Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). 26 Ghisyawan, Erotic Cartographies , 117. 25...
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