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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 1–20.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Glyne Griffith Small Axe Incorporated 2001 Deconstructing Nationalisms:
Henry Swanzy, Caribbean Voices and the
Development of West Indian Literature
Glyne Griffi th
etween 1943 and 1958, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), through its
General Overseas Service...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 69–77.
Published: 01 November 2010
... considers the case of Haitian literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, and suggests that this, one of the oldest Francophone literary traditions, can be thought of as a precursor to “littérature-monde.” Focusing on questions of language, style, and relationships with the metropole, the paper situates...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 89–98.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Keithley Woolward Directly engaging the recent manifesto and essay collection calling for a world literature in French, this article considers the creolized, hybrid forms of geopolitical and discursive belonging of the Francophone Caribbean participants as a useful starting point for such a project...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 99–110.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., and linguistic borders of postcolonial literature. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 The Ambivalent Transnationalism
of a Literature-World—in French
Kaiama L. Glover
Like the diagnosis of an illness with regard to the doctor, the analysis of the manifesto is
empowering for the critic. The manifesto appeals...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 121–134.
Published: 01 November 2010
...,
“World Literature,” and the
Persistence of the Political
Charles Forsdick
Postcolonial critics customarily present Edward Said as a foundational figure in their field,
yet repeated claims to “ownership” along these lines contradict Said’s protestations, often
expressed in interviews...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 78–86.
Published: 01 March 2020
... to exalt West Indian literature as a beacon of federation may have brought into imagination the “flaming directions” of cultural sovereignty that Philip M. Sherlock described and have given value to the federation idea(l) of “dwelling together in unity.” 24 However, the male migrant writers associated...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 17–34.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Simona Bertacco This essay weaves together translation and postcolonial literary studies to propose a translational model of reading for Caribbean literature. Translation and creolization provide the conceptual and aesthetic lens for reading Caribbean literary texts: If translation is an apt model...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 83–90.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of its foremost poets and intellectuals. 1 The text is a generative, though by no means unvexed, reflection on the networks of Cuban and Caribbean literature, politics, and racial identity, and it is for that reason that our contributors return to it here. Completed in 1980 and published in 1982...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 65–79.
Published: 01 November 2016
... literatures in a comparative Caribbbean studies framework. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 colonialism Caribbean confederation 1898 criollismo creole I began my engagement in Caribbean studies precisely by expanding my horizons beyond my specific interest in Puerto Rican literature and by proposing...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 58–70.
Published: 01 October 2008
...: the spiral and quantum writing . ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 Haitian Revolutions in Literature:
The Case of Linguistic and Visual
Inventiveness in Frankétienne
Rachel Douglas
Ab s t r a c t : This article argues that there is a conspicuous lack...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
...L. Camille van der Marel This essay examines the relationship between debt and memory that is emerging in contemporary calls for reparation and Caribbean Canadian literature. CARICOM's and Ta-Nehisi Coates's discussions of reparatory justice, as well as David Chariandy's Soucouyant and Ramabai...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Haitian writers are, in fact, what we could call becoming -France/ becoming -Paris. Questioning the phenomenon of postcolonial star formations, as delineated by Graham Huggan and Chris Bongie, the essay also examines the inescapability of extra-literary factors, where Haitian literature is concerned...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2012
...). For fuller discussion of these various positions and the conference, see Alison Donnell, Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary and Critical History (Routledge: London, 2006), 27–32. 3 The original issues of Tapia are available in the Digital Library...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 48–62.
Published: 01 November 2017
... skepticism , which approached the absurdity of the current conjuncture by deploying critical distance to cast doubt on the past, the present, and the very idea of single-island sovereign futures. The author resituates this independence era's literature by identifying its multitudinous plotlines that included...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 92–97.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Lowell Fiet Work on Sargasso as an independent journal of Caribbean literature, language, and culture began at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in 1983. After a successful, but not uncomplicated, launching of its first issue in 1984, the journal received support and contributions from important...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 56–82.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Raphael Dalleo It has become commonplace to acknowledge that alongside the development of a powerful labor movement and the nation's first political party, Jamaica's literature came into its own during the 1930s and 1940s. This article explores how the different kind of work carried out in two...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Carlos Ulises Decena In this essay, Decena follows Maja Horn's invitation to move historical and literary analysis of Dominican literature away from the masculine ideation mapped in her pioneering Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). Through...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 246–253.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Barbara Lalla This essay reviews Belinda Edmondson’s literary yet cross-disciplinary study Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance (2022), which questions the Blackness of orality versus the Whiteness of narrative in the growth of Caribbean literature. Caribbean language...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 18–32.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Dashiell Moore In Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere (2011), Raphael Dalleo draws on the concept of the field to note that Caribbean writers often “operate within a constrained set of possibilities governed by certain historically determined rules . . . from accommodation to opposition...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., Raphaël Confiant, and Jean Bernabé. Éloge de la créolité has been much discussed and critiqued in relation to Antillean politics and literature; its claim to replace essentialist racial identities with an ever-evolving diversalité has been disputed by a variety of other authors from the Caribbean...
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