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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
... women’s rights organization. This piece, a literary sketch, provides insights into Comhaire-Sylvain’s perspectives on working-class women, racial segregation, and the gendered division of labor. It explores the “Zone neutre” of Léopoldville (later Kinshasa) and reveals a Caribbean scholar’s observations...
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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
... Government , James proclaims that West Indian societies are fit to govern their own affairs because they are modern and harmonious. However, James’s argument contradicts his literary sketches of the barrack yard in Minty Alley . The novel features a fractious relationship between Benoit and Mrs. Rouse...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 62–76.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and suggest the symbolic resources and epistemological limitations that will characterize future representations of the era in multiple genres. The essay closes with a brief discussion of Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings , sketching its alignments and discontinuities with the earlier texts...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.
Published: 01 March 2017
... by the signatories at the time of its publication. In effect, the literary history sketched in the opening pages of the Éloge begins with Negritude, and thereby occludes béké writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are in the text three explicit references to the békés, of which only one...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and later versions—begging for new close readings, new literary excavations. Between Lam’s featured sketch and Césaire’s Notebook , perhaps the most identifiable convergences are with Cuban Santeriá and Haitian Vodou. The larger role of queerness in Afro-Caribbean cosmologies is usefully laid out...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the ethnographic teleology he has just sketched. In fact, the two movements are inseparable. For Chamoiseau and Confiant, créolité is not so much a genre in itself as it is an aesthetic disposition, a writerly positionality that instantiates an attitude toward and appropriation of literary history...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
... mesmerizing impact (curtailed after less than a year), and the birth of Abeng and Savacou . 2 Since its inaugural edition, the year prior to the conference, Savacou under the editorship of Kamau Brathwaite had begun the labor of sketching the contours of a Caribbean literary and aesthetic tradition...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
... as political actors and not merely passive bystanders or martyrs. It then sketches, in the postdictatorship period, the emergence of new gender-focused organizations, NGOs, academic programs, and political quotas for women, foregrounding how, despite these advances, political and social gains have been uneven...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 43–47.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of the making of a “modern” Jamaica has been crucial to a nationalist historiography—a paradigm that might be less cogent in the contemporary period. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 1960s identity race independence These notes sketch, in a preliminary way, a gradually evolving project that literary...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2012
... the significance of its publication venue. Donnell attends to Baugh's own standing in the highly charged field of Caribbean literary criticism as a critic of both Walcott and Naipaul, and acknowledges his creative contribution to this field as a poet. She also considers how, in the years between the original...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
... would, in different ways, have to contend with McTurk’s minstrel legacy. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 “Quow” (Michael McTurk) Creole poetry literary minstrelsy early Caribbean literature historical poetics The early phases...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and commitments. Charles had himself instructively sketched much of the arc of his own story in a remarkable autobiographical essay, “Red Shift: Politically Embodied / Embodied Politics,” that allows us to situate him at the crossroads of a number of cultural-intellectual vectors. 2 The essay tracks...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 123–135.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Kelly Baker Josephs “See you there. In the free.” This is the closing statement in Erna Brodber's fourth novel, The Rainmaker's Mistake (2007). In the novel, Brodber creatively imagines a past for the New World present, taking advantage of the space literary speculation and science fiction offer...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2016
... style of literary-cultural criticism that turned around the attempt to summon into theoretical intelligibility the paradoxical situation of the African presence in the slave and postslave plantation complexes of the New World. There is no way to even sketch here (much less detail) the rich complexity...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2012
... herring. Mintz and Price had already to some extent established
an agenda for re-visioning our understanding of the Caribbean, sketched in their pathbreaking
essay An Anthropological Approach to the Afro-American Past: A Caribbean Perspective, first
presented in 1973 as a research paper...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 181–186.
Published: 01 November 2020
... at these gatherings. What, then, might this method of thinking with and through Jamaica offer the practice of criticism? The Jamaican literary critic Eddie Baugh has long taught us that quarreling with and through history and our interlocutors is a central feature of a Caribbean intellectual tradition. 2...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2019
... to foreground either the diasporic or the local, I pursue an archipelagic reading of Wide Sargasso Sea because it provides a methodology for understanding anew Rhys’s novel and the Caribbean literary canon more broadly as a “moving target.” 6 To sketch out such a vocabulary of nuanced understanding, I...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 1–20.
Published: 01 September 2001
... in territories such as
Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and Guyana, and listen to discover if one of their literary
submissions had been selected for broadcast. 8 ose who had had a poem or short story
broadcast the previous week might listen to the following week’s broadcast to hear a
studio discussion...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 220–232.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and its TV adaptation; Roger de Jaham's Tous Créoles! movement; and Romain Bolzinger's documentary Les derniers maîtres de la Martinique . Through the prism of the manifesto, the essay sketches a number of tropes, images, and discursive positions that, whether directly influenced by créolité...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 111–120.
Published: 01 November 2010
... “littérature-monde” formulation, which echoes many of Glissant's coinages. Given the close parentage between Glissant's thought and the Littérature-monde project, it seems appropriate to ask how Glissant's writing helps to understand the project and to what extent it can help to achieve the program sketched...
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