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Ital Chic: Rastafari, Resistance, and the Politics of Consumption in Jamaica

Rivke Jaffe
Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 30–45.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-042
Published: 01 March 2010
...Rivke Jaffe This paper explores the existence of `ital chic' in Jamaica. A cross between ethical consumerism and the marketing of cool, ital chic represents an aesthetic repertoire and a commercial strategy based on Rastafari. The symbols and aesthetics of a Rastafari lifestyle, or `ital livity...
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Identity and Change in the Work of Édouard Glissant

Celia Britton
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 169–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3844331
Published: 01 March 2017
...”; Glissant, Le discours antillais , 11. 4 “A people which continues elsewhere, which maintains l'Être ”; “a population that elsewhere changes into another people … and thus enters into the unending variation of Relation (of the relay, the relative)”; ibid., 29 (italics in original). 5...
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Imported Topics, Foreign Vocabularies: Dread Talk, the Cuban Connection

Velma Pollard, Samuel Furé Davis
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 59–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-59
Published: 01 February 2006
... in Cuban Spanish. Words with their Jamaican DT meanings as used in Cuba Irie (/airi/) alright; good; pleasing; used also as a salutation Ital (/aital/) pure; natural; organic; food cooked without salt: Rasta food Ible (/aibl/) bible; the Christian bible Babylon...
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Modern Dermabrasions: Black/Brown after Ren Ellis Neyra’s The Cry of the Senses

Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 163–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901738
Published: 01 July 2022
..., . . . de l’autre, l’expérience de l’autre comme invention de l’impossible, en d’autres termes comme la seule invention possible”). Franz Fanon, Peau noire, masques blancs , in OEuvres (Paris: La découverte, 2011), 250 (italics in original); Jacques Derrida, Psyché: Inventions de l’autre (Paris...
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Globalization and Political Action in the Work of Edouard Glissant

Celia M. Britton
Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 1–11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-022
Published: 01 November 2009
... resonate around the world: “We are now willing to listen to the cry of the world, and in listening to it, we understand that from now on everyone hears it” (TTM, 17; italics in original). Second, the unpredictability that, given the huge number of variables involved, is one of the main...
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Secretions of Subjectivity: Temporality and Agency in Colonial Debts

Ernesto Blanes-Martinez
Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 190–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-11382608
Published: 01 July 2024
... relief” (77; italics mine). “The wait of disaster,” she continues, “a temporal mode of ‘standstill’ where Puerto Rico seemed ‘trapped in a stalled present,’ set in. The present no longer gave way to a future. It ‘linger[ed] longer than it should’” (77, 78; italics mine; Zambrana’s brackets...
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The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought

Minkah Makalani
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985654
Published: 01 July 2018
...: Grove, 2008), 204 (italics in original); The Wretched of the Earth , trans. Richard Philcox (1963; repr., New York: Grove, 2004), 239. 2 Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought (1961; repr., New York: Penguin, 2006), 150; C. L. R. James and Grace Lee Boggs...
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A Return to the Anticolonial: History as Weapon on the Caribbean Battlefield

Audra A. Diptée
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211822
Published: 01 November 2022
...: Ten Speed, 2007), 112 (italics in original). 12 Knowledges produced in the epistemic South are rooted in “a tradition of resistance to colonialist and imperialist aims” and challenge the “hegemony of Western modern thinking.” The epistemic South may exist in either the global South...
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Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire: An Ecopoetic Theory of Caribbean Subjectivity

Natalie Catasús
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 52–66.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211850
Published: 01 November 2022
... of intelligence, but of feeling and sensation ” (16; italics mine). Alain gestures toward the artist’s ability to achieve harmony with nature, but his rationalist framework still cannot account for creativity’s “mysterious, hidden, and irresistible force,” which is neither wholly spontaneous nor wholly calculated...
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Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow

Mark Harris
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384184
Published: 01 July 2021
..., Goldsmiths, University of London, 9 July 2019). 36 Toni Morrison, Beloved (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987), 108–9. 37 Jennifer Lynn Stoever, The Sonic Color Line: Race and the Cultural Politics of Listening (New York: New York University Press, 2016), 20 (italics in original). 38...
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Disturbing the Neighbors

Tim Watson
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 237–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10899232
Published: 01 November 2023
... University Press, 2020), 137–50. 12 Walcott, “Frowsty Fragrance.” 11 Derek Walcott, “What the Twilight Says,” in What the Twilight Says: Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998), 28. 10 Ibid. (italics mine). 9 Derek Walcott, “A Frowsty Fragrance,” New York Review...
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For a Caribbean American Graininess: William Carlos Williams, Translator

Urayoán Noel
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 138–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378964
Published: 01 November 2013
... William Carlos Williams, The William Carlos Williams Reader , ed. M. L. Rosenthal (New York: New Directions, 1966), 380. 10 Ibid., 227 (italics in original), 158. 9 Ibid., 75. 8 Ibid., 76 (italics in original). 7 Williams, Kora in Hell , 75 (italics in original), 76. 6...
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Not Child but Meager: Sexualization and Negation of Black Childhood

Tezeru Teshome, K. Wayne Yang
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7249292
Published: 01 November 2018
... or toward the range of trans * formations enacted on and by Black bodies” (30; italics in original). One such transformation enacted on a trans * child is in the newspapers that ungendered and mis/ named Margaret Garner’s drowned daughter as “it” (105). Another transformation is enacted by Quvenzhané...
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Edouard Glissant and the Art of Memory

Bonnie Thomas
Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 25–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-024
Published: 01 November 2009
..., “The Generation of Postmemory,” Poetics Today 29 (2008): 106 (italics in original). For an illuminating discussion on the psychological effects of “transgenerational haunting,” see Nicolas Abraham, “Notes on the Phantom,” in Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals...
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Denial, Responsibility, Bad Faith, and Blues in Lewis Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness

Nathalie Etoke
Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 135–144.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-11131291
Published: 01 March 2024
... it has changed. Gordon observes an epistemic and ontological mutation that reveals a particular problem: “Instead of referring to black persons or black people, there is a tendency, especially among black students and academics, to refer to black bodies ” (31; italics in original). As a researcher...
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The Refusal of Work: From the Postemancipation Caribbean to Post-Fordist Empire

Christopher Taylor
Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 1–17.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739812
Published: 01 July 2014
... in Italy: A Potential Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), 1. 11 Ibid. 12 Antonio Negri, Reflections on Empire , trans. Ed Emery (London: Polity, 2008), 35 (italics in original). 13 For a good English-language history of these various organizations, see Steve...
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Dictates of Dominican Democracy: Conceptualizing Caribbean Political Modernity

Maja Horn
Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 18–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739821
Published: 01 July 2014
... on all bear the burden of European thought and history.” Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 4 (italics in original). 7 David Scott, Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality...
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Insurgent Knowledges: Reading How Europe Underdeveloped Africa alongside the Rupture in Guyana

D. Alissa Trotz, Nigel Westmaas
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 177–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10899414
Published: 01 November 2023
....” Rodney, “Race and Politics in British Guiana,” 10. 43 Walter Rodney, quoted in Andrew Salkey, “Appendix B: Interview with Dr. Walter Rodney,” in Georgetown Journal: A Caribbean Writer’s Journey from London via Port of Spain to Georgetown, Guyana, 1970 (London: New Beacon, 1972), 385 (italics...
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On Ecstatic-Aesthetic Universality—In Zong!

Daniel Benjamin
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7374418
Published: 01 March 2019
...), 316 (italics in original). 18 Philip cites Lindon Barrett, Blackness and Value: Seeing Double (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 64; Barrett quotes Sterling Stuckey, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987...
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Mode of Black Life: Fear of a b/Black Consciousness

André Brock
Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 157–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-11131317
Published: 01 March 2024
... with reality as phenomena or things that appear . Consciousness, for Gordon, is “ of something” and marks an intentional rather than casual or unconscious relationship with the world (60; italics in original). This relationship can be experienced or imaginary. Consciousness must be somewhere—in a space...
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