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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of the life-world produces a relationship of intersubjectivity and a multidimensional view of history. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 my journey towards self-acceptance determines my allegories. in painting the world around me, i search for an independent figurative vision of what is inwardly known...
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in Bleeding, Wailing, and Hypnosis: The Words and Images of Caroline “booops” Sardine
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2013
Figure 2. Caroline “booops” Sardine, livicayted to life , 1997. Acrylic on canvas, 60 in. × 16 in. Photograph by Jane Bryce
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 22–39.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and disaggregated, compelled and demanded, teleological “posts” that distinguish black life after the mid-twentieth century—the postcolonial (and post-postcolonial), post–civil rights, postnationalist, postblack, post-soul, postracial, and posttactile—and the contending black thoughts defined by a differently...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of in-betweenness and in/security in relation to more “leisurely” pursuits, notably, tourism. By revisting Stephanie Black’s critically acclaimed documentary film Life and Debt and retheorizing the concept of critical conversations, this essay analyses the ways representations of in/security have framed media...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 78–95.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Greg Beckett Set against the backdrop of soaring inflation, rolling blackouts, fuel riots, roadblocks, and antigovernment protests, this essay explores a new language of political crisis in Haiti that draws on the concept of unlivable life. In so doing, it seeks to directly connect political...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 76–84.
Published: 01 July 2016
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 72–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
... in rural Jamaica. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 Caribbean Organic Intellectual:
The Legacy and Challenge
of Erna Brodber’s Life Work
Catherine John
At the heart of novelist and historian Erna Brodber’s work is an examination of the slavery
experience, its aftereffects, and a comparison...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 211–222.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Lynn Sweeting Poetry: Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, “Lunar Planting” (first place), Lynn Sweeting, “Coming Back to Life” (second place); short fiction: Sharon Millar, “The Dragonfly's Tale” (first place), Alexia Arthurs, “Lobster Hand” (second place) © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 The harbour...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 34–45.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Edouard Duval Carrié Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Life in the North Caribbean
Edouard Duval Carrié
It’s a long and quite complicated story, that of Haiti, and my place in it. In my case and in that
of my island nation the motto is how do we avert tragedy when in a whirlwind...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to the patient’s ear, entering his feelings” would raise his “languid eye and listless mind to life” by making him realize that “the present sickness was but trifling preliminary to returning home independently.” 42 Mitchell’s remarks are striking in the way they deploy a register that is decidedly affective...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 24–45.
Published: 01 July 2022
... with the abandonment of estates, the sight of which would instill in any traveler “a feeling of desolation.” But suddenly, the “wild growths” give way to a new order of banana palms being worked by a “larger and thriftier” people, the sight of which breathes life into a landscape of waste and decay. “The old order...
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in “He Was a Lion, and He Would Destroy Much”: A Speculative School of Revolutionary Politics
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 2 Marielle Plaisir, Aponte Lámina 23 , from The Book of Life , 2017 (variation on Lámina 23 from Aponte’s book of paintings). Inks, gold pigment, and pencil on 350g paper; 20 × 15 in. From the Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom exhibit; Little Haiti Cultural Center, New York
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 108–114.
Published: 01 November 2011
... the novels and poetry into his theoretical discourse. Glissant's essays display not a linear evolution of thought but the same structure of “changing-remaining.” Also, all his work contains a great deal of autobiographical material; this close imbrication between life and writing is central to his project...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
...José I. Fusté This essay uses Vanessa Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017) to reflect on the different stakes surrounding debates about Schomburg as a historical figure and also as a heuristic for grasping the complex vicissitudes of Afro-Latinx life...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Evelyne Laurent-Perrault This essay engages Vanessa K. Valdés’s Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg . It traces Valdés’s main contributions and notes that her work invites readers to expand their views of Schomburg’s Afro-Caribbean/Latinx/Latin American identity...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Vanessa K. Valdés This response essay is a reflection on the composition of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (2017) by its author and a sustained conversation with three of her peers, each of whom illuminate distinct aspects of Schomburg’s life and the scholarship...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 28–43.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Elizabeth E. Sine This essay explores the making of a radical cultural politics amid the global crisis of the 1930s and 1940s through a study of the life and work of dancer Si-lan Chen. Born in Trinidad to Afro-Caribbean and Chinese parents, trained as a ballerina in Moscow, and an active supporter...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... between Indigenous spatio-temporalities of life and experience as they underwent forced conformity with a homogeneous, “empty” time and space underpinning Eurocentric ideas of capitalist progress as well as the advancement of communism/socialism; a critique of unilinear Development models; and How Europe...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Nadi Edwards This paper examines the representation of contemporary figures of “bare life” in the context of postcolonial Jamaican modernity. The representation of Kingston as a dystopia is one such trope of bare life, as evident in Kamau Brathwaite's 1994 prose poem, Trench Town Rock...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Timothy J. Reiss This essay tracks Kamau Brathwaite’s life, his poetic and critical writing, and his travails and thinking, from youth and early career—in Barbados, England, Ghana, and the Caribbean, but mainly from his arrival at New York University in 1991—through his retirement in 2013...
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