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“We are all related”: Edouard Glissant Meets Octavia Butler

Valérie Loichot
Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 37–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-025
Published: 01 November 2009
...Valérie Loichot This essay sheds light on family relations in Octavia Butler's fantasy neo-slave narrative Kindred (1979) through Édouard Glissant's theories of kinship and Relation. This comparative gesture thus relate Glissant's Caribbean texts to an unlikely kin, a Californian African American...
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Preface: The Universality of Casa de las Américas

David Scott
Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): vii–x.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3726710
Published: 01 November 2016
... the name of Martí, his constant companion, and not merely as an external matter of intellectual agreement, but more deeply, internally, as the identification of a kindred spirit). As readers of this late-nineteenth-century Cuban patriot will remember, the generative ethos of his famous essay “Our America...
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Queer Césaire

Matthew Omelsky
Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 1–19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-11131161
Published: 01 March 2024
... in their homelands; and that they both were deeply influenced by surrealism, the avant-garde movement that sought to remake a world in crisis through artistic expressions of the subconscious. At the time Lam and Césaire were developing kindred modes of experimentalism through which they exposed the enduring effects...
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Venus in Two Acts

Saidiya Hartman
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-1
Published: 01 June 2008
... sketched by de Certeau, Octavia Butler’s Kindred offers a model for a practice.43 When Dana, the protagonist of Butler’s speculative fiction, travels from the twentieth century to the 1820s to encounter her enslaved foremother, Dana finds to her surprise that she...
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Pearl Primus and the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition

Farah Jasmine Griffin
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 40–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665425
Published: 01 March 2013
... of SNYC's publications. Primus wrote that she was “truly happy to be called on to write the essay.” 14 In SNYC, Primus found kindred spirits. It was also during this period that she made connections with young activists of the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) and in so doing came to the attention...
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Art Talk and the Uses of History

Hortense J. Spillers
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 175–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3341765
Published: 01 November 2015
...” of the imagination in African diasporic subjects, or as the lingering “anxiety of influence” that fires each subject's rhetorical flights, or as the unarrested unquiet phantasm that, not unlike the way that Octavia Butler's protagonist of Kindred encounters it, has acquired the power to metaphorize, unbidden...
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Black Women and Their Discontents in the French Context

Shanna Jean-Baptiste
Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10461929
Published: 01 March 2023
... for political and social imagination. Grounded in the discontents of the present, creative explorations of the past are ultimately about the future. For instance, Octavia Butler’s Kindred and its narrative about the afterlife of plantation slavery in twentieth-century US culture prompt us to grasp...
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I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of Faith

Lyndon K. Gill
Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4378936
Published: 01 March 2018
... resistant candle-bearing corners of the kindred first-generation creole religions of the Americas—Candomblé, Vodou, and Santería certainly figuring most prominently among these queer faith traditions. An ancient social phenomenon rooted as deeply in the not-so-New World as it is in the Old (African...
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Engendering History: A Poetics of the Kala Pani in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge

Brinda Mehta
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 19–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-19
Published: 01 October 2006
... as a reaction to what is seen as licentious behavior, undermining the Hindu male’s moral guardianship of female sexuality. For this reason, Gainder falls in love with a Christian man named Joshua in whom she recognizes a kindred spirit. She imagines that Joshua’s Christian background...
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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
... People’s Alliance. He had found a collective kindred view after more than a decade of critiquing the country’s political binaries. It was a decision not taken lightly, and one for which Walter Rodney paid the ultimate price. My application to join the staff was first dispatched from Tanzania in 1972...
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Translative and Opaque: Multilingual Caribbean Writing in Derek Walcott and Monchoachi

Kavita Ashana Singh
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 90–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2826479
Published: 01 November 2014
... which Creole lines and words “translated” which French ones (24–25). I recognized synonyms, and heard their kindred sounds; the Creole text had opened up, momentarily. I learned a few words, made a few grateful comparisons, and discovered the deep surprise and pleasure of reading, simultaneously, one...
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Albums of Inclusion: The Photographic Poetics of Caribbean Chinese Visual Kinship

Tao Leigh Goffe
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985666
Published: 01 July 2018
... focus from nationalism and toward diaspora, I engage with the kindred and enmeshed, rather than comparative, circuits of black and Asian diasporas. Positioned in the United States and Canada, the artists also mediate another layer of diasporic identity. The photographic poetics formed are from...
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Inside and Outside the Exhibition Space: The Poetics and Politics of Colectivo Quintapata

Carlos Garrido Castellano, Magdalena Lopez
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 31–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749758
Published: 01 November 2020
... and History of our Country”—contains an interesting parallel between, on the one hand, processes of exchange and apprenticeship, and, on the other, newness. 9 Four decades later, a kindred desire for social usefulness shaped Quintapata’s aim to articulate a collective voice by using public participation...
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“A Thorn in the Side of Great Britain”: C. L. R. James and the Caribbean Labour Rebellions of the 1930s

Christian Høgsbjerg
Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 24–42.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1334221
Published: 01 July 2011
... island to island, the only road to solution, these and kindred subjects will be dealt with in a succeeding volume.”13 James later noted that The Life of Captain Cipriani was “a grand success” when it was sent back to the West Indies in September 1932.14 As Cary Fraser notes, “James’s prescient...
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Caresser's Dominion: Race, Nation, and Calypso in Postwar Canada

Michael Eldridge
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 29–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139358
Published: 01 July 2015
... For their part, “Calypso singers in Trinidad,” apparently recognizing in White a kindred spirit, reportedly “composed one of their free-wheeling, racy lyrics in her honor”—as if in praising her, they were applauding Canada and condemning the United States by proxy. Since CBC International's mission...
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The Sovereignty of the Imagination: An Interview with George Lamming

David Scott
Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 72–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-2-72
Published: 01 September 2002
...). Wright wrote in praise, fi nding in Lamming’s prose a kindred spirit, “the echo of another voice declaiming in alien accents a description of [the] same reality” with which he was concerned, namely, “the story of millions of simple folk who, sprawled over half of the world’s...
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“To be Liberated from the Obscurity of Themselves”: An Interview with Rex Nettleford

David Scott
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 97–246.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-2-97
Published: 01 June 2006
... University. That’s a giant of a mind—at once imagination and intellect. I think I was brought to his attention as a result of the prizes I got at school, the range of things [I received prizes for], and the fact that I produced the show. So he was a kindred spirit, let’s put...
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The Paradox of Freedom: An Interview with Orlando Patterson

David Scott
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 96–242.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665461
Published: 01 March 2013
... were kind of kindred spirits. Right to the end of his life we remained very good friends. I taught a course with him, too. That's how I came to know much about America. Now, David did something interesting. He didn't have graduate students teaching in his course as assistants. He had various people who...
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