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Published: 01 July 2017
This is a walk I take in the mornings, near my home. The road is lined with Royal Palms. These trees bear flowers that are held in podlike bracts. The pods start out green and pliable, then they dry up, hanging on the tree until they finally fall to the ground. I collect them because I am attracted
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Anne S. Macpherson This essay makes a case for comparative Caribbean historiography rooted in research that crosses linguistic, national, and imperial lines, through a discussion of Puerto Rican and Belizean working women from abolition to the 1930s. In illustrating the commensurability...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 39–61.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Danticat's latest collection of essays, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work (2010), and reflects on the significance of reading a writer such as Danticat across cultural lines. © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 An Immigrant Artist at Work:
A Conversation
with Edwidge Danticat
Elvira Pulitano...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of Jamaican national becoming by insisting on the creative power of Jamaica's racial and cultural heterogeneity. On the one hand, the memoir honors domesticity as the necessary and valuable work of nurturing family and community while maintaining discreet lines of demarcation between the persona...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 198–212.
Published: 01 July 2012
... difference. Ultimately, he contends, annotating black cultural production—and exploring its implications for subjects on all sides of the color line—means thinking seriously about how we constitute our objects of study as well as the methodological techniques we employ to narrate their material and temporal...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 142–151.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the line of an essentializing biological racial miscegenation frame and collapses the distance between racial positions of nonwhiteness and blackness. This critical review centers the socially constructed experience of black subjects and what Frantz Fanon refers to as the “fact of blackness.” It asks what...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 186–204.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Stephen Best Huey Copeland's Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America can be categorized as the most recent in a long line of scholarly investigations into what has come to be called “the afterlife of slavery”—the general preoccupation with establishing...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 187–196.
Published: 01 July 2020
... at the epicenter of their financial projects, which employed racism as a technology to banking interests, and racial capitalism grafted itself onto existing hierarchical systems. Hudson has shown the banks to be heirs to a long history of Caribbean commerce that tracks the shadowy line between the legal...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 105–115.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Kelly Baker Josephs This essay is part of a special section on Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s 1975 essay “Caribbean Man in Space and Time” (reprinted in the issue), briefly tracing the dissemination history of Brathwaite’s essay, then focusing on two main lines of argument in it to explore...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 163–175.
Published: 01 July 2022
... that Ellis Neyra has identified across the fault lines of “Black/Brown” racial formations in a post-1492 context by paying specific attention to how these tensions crystalize in Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean studies. The essay unpacks Ellis Neyra’s account of the breakdown of the concept of Brownness...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 14–30.
Published: 01 November 2022
... for an analytical framework that is transnational in its framing, lines of inquiry that are grounded in historically informed interdisciplinarity, and analyses of the ways power interacts with memory and historicity in hegemonic discourses. audra.diptee@carleton.ca Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 112–132.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the sea,
I had a sound colonial education,
I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me,
and either I’m nobody, or I’m a nation.⁵
1 is passage, early in the long poem, situates itself to conclude on the idea of nation,
but one should note how heavily invested the lines are in naming...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
...) 12 These are highly localized and situated lines of verse. They are dense with reference to local events, personalities, and places, and employ a language that only speakers, or those with a long familiarity, will readily understand. (A full English translation of the poem is included...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 107–114.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of the Open Road,” in Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1900); Bartleby.com , 1999, www.bartleby.com/142/82.html , line 196. 4 Ibid., lines 18–21. 5 Ibid., lines 93–94. 6 Ibid., line 130. 7 Ibid., line 17. 8 Ibid., line 88. 9 Ibid., line 116. 10...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 43–62.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of that conversation for the role of a poet. Carter’s sparse,
not quite prosaic, lines—with their defi ning imperative “write for them”—highlight
the poverty of writing dedicatory poetry that demands the poet be only a conduit “for
them.” Th e poet’s role is, according to “them,” defi ned by a duty to speak...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 83–96.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., or masculinity. In
realizing this multiply oriented visualization, Julien developed a method that has evolved as
a kind of transverse optics, by which I mean a way of reframing the familiar so as to mobilize
new lines of questioning. He does this by playing to our desire as an audience for pleasure...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 56–67.
Published: 01 November 2018
... used a focus on the spatial practices through which in/security becomes politicized to speak to understandings of the contested articulations of the global color line in the post–First World War conjuncture. In particular, it has sought to trace situated forms of translocal solidarity, agency...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 24–44.
Published: 01 November 2021
... magnified and cut across national lines, underscoring universal experiences such as oppression or the grappling with colonial legacies. 24 Notably, La Poesía Sorprendida gained recognition through writers from Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including the French writer, poet, and cofounder...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2016
.... Reiterating Brathwaite's point about the “imprison[ing] pentameter,” Bernstein quotes the same line from “Fresh from de Lecture” that I did earlier in this essay: “Him tell us 'bout we self, an' mek we fresh again.” 27 The line has twelve syllables, six stresses—not pentameter but hexameter...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 17–34.
Published: 01 July 2020
... along colonial language lines: some areas—mostly rural—are prevalently French Creole–speaking, Catholic, and black; other areas—mostly urban—are Protestant and dominated by English and English-based Creole. Walcott, born in 1930, was raised by an English-speaking Methodist family in Castries...
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