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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
...SJ Zhang This essay proposes the historical term simarrona (used in colonial Louisiana archives) as a heuristic for unlearning certain reading practices of the term maroon and its persistent “etymology plot.” Simarrona not only troubles the neat linguistic geographies of the term maroon...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 11–21.
Published: 01 March 2020
... offers potential critical tools to investigate the region’s linguistic variability. However, European-focused scholarship prioritizes a national focus that cannot account for the complex relationships between colonial languages and Caribbean Creoles. This essay considers three works from the Dominican...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Maureen Warner-Lewis The transformation of Maureen Warner-Lewis’s intellectual career from colonial to postcolonial shaping was gradual and sometimes fortuitous. It involved a bifurcation in disciplines, evolving from English literary developments into Afro-Caribbean social and linguistic history...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2016
... and hopefully effective means of contributing to the present one. The much-touted fragmentation produced by imperial competition and rivalry during the colonial transaction has left contemporary Caribbean people with a region made up of societies still existing within political, existential, linguistic...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 133–143.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., their literatures, and their lives. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Puerto Rican literature PLPR Puerto Rican Literature Project translation Puerto Rican poetry linguistic colonialism If you are the most bilingual person in the room, no one cares about...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... this methodology of decoloniality and relationality, I track the long historical and literary, linguistic, and cultural relationship between often peripheralized Afro-Atlantic hispanophone subjects. For example, the hispanophone Caribbean and Equatorial Guinea share colonial histories under the Spanish Empire...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 90–106.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of undeniable linguistic diversity (which was the condition of both colonial Europe and the New World), imposed not only the colonizer's language but also the myth that a singular, unified epistemology would by definition be superior. The hierarchies that were inherent in colonial linguistic practices continue...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
... novel, replete with the generic signatures of the bildungsroman,
is a fi ctive practice that theorizes language’s role in fashioning the colonial subject. A e
heterogeneity of the narrative and the linguistic registers bespeaks the multiplicity of
relationships between self and society; individual...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 51–62.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of a politics of repair that recovers and rehabilitates the submerged, repressed, and discarded sounds that carry the weight of historical memories, the “noises in the blood” that disrupt colonial and neocolonial cultural and linguistic hierarchies. Sound is thus a central concept in Cooper’s interrogation...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2015
....” For Craig, this apparent oversight is doubly remarkable not only in light of the distinctive dynamics of language use in the region but also in the wider Caribbean context of (post)colonial geopolitics: “This is surprising enough on a purely linguistic level, but it is in the area of ideology...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 17–34.
Published: 01 July 2020
... attention to the linguistic makeup of the text, to its prosody and its style, all readers can access and hear the “colonial cacophony” that often defines the context around it. 4 There is an important lesson to be learned by reading translationally. As a case in point, in the years in which I have been...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 80–84.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of “life and death”—make this practice of Caribbean criticism all the more urgent. 3 We are all well aware that the Caribbean is fragmented along linguistic and other lines derived from the colonial past and present, which resulted in the emergence of different and sometimes conflicting...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
... unidirectional vector of culture. 18 It disrupts an assimilationism that privileges “pure” or homogeneous colonial languages. Both the notion that culture radiates out from Europe to the benighted regions of the world and that hybrid linguistic forms denigrate “standard” European languages are the legacy...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 87–95.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Glyne A. Griffith, introduction to The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943–1958 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 1–4. In this essay, I recontextualize portions of the chapter “ Caribbean Voices and Competing Visions of Post-colonial Community.” 4 Benedict...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 149–160.
Published: 01 March 2014
... alternatives to conventional representations of Chinese Jamaican identity. For example, Lee's short story “To Rahtid” uses linguistic stereotypes to stage a dual-pronged critique of the racism the Chinese subject encounters and the impact of colonial and neocolonial discourses of race and class on all...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 112–119.
Published: 01 March 2005
... linguistic, cultural, and national commu-
nities that constitute the black world. If one considers recent scholarship and dialogue
concerning the many locations from where people imagine a black international com-
munity, ranging from that of Cedric Robinson, Robin D. G. Kelley, Paul Gilroy, Brenda...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 86–97.
Published: 01 July 2023
... to linguistics thrown in for good measure. 2 One can trace the influence of that literary canon in the poetry of Derek Walcott, who belonged to the first generation of Caribbean writers educated at the University of the West Indies—from his nod to Andrew Marvell’s “Bermudas” in the title poem of his 1962...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 100–112.
Published: 01 November 2013
... stem in part from variegated histories of colonialism: What makes the proximity of the Dutch Caribbean and the Hispanic Caribbean congeal into a coherent identity formation any denser than the cultural and linguistic ties between the latter and Latin America (a scalar fix unto itself)? Racialization...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the cognitive capacities of enslaved populations, Salikoko S. Mufwene remarks in The Ecology of Language Evolution that “although part of colonial history has tied the development of pidgins with slavery, the connection is accidental.” 41 The dissemination and evolution of linguistic elements, including...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 99–102.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Kelly Baker Josephs Introduction to the special section on Caribbean Epistemologies in this issue. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 How in the post-colonial present do we conceptualize the societies in the Caribbean? While explicitly a formulation about meaning in the post-colonial present...
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