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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 99–110.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Kaiama L. Glover In this essay I explore the generic limitations of the “Pour une littérature-monde en français” manifesto. Looking at certain of the document's structural and thematic stumbling blocks, I examine the essential dilemmas that reside at the heart of all postcolonial literary...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 111–120.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Eric Prieto To someone who studies the Caribbean, a striking feature of the 2007 Littérature-monde manifesto is its deep debt to the thought of one of its most prestigious signatories: Edouard Glissant. The very title of the manifesto hints at this influence, through its use of the hyphenated...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 220–232.
Published: 01 March 2017
... de la créolité 's conception and failure. This essay analyzes a number of texts (novels, films, manifestos) produced by, or about, békés since 1989, to investigate how the principles valorized in the Éloge have resonated (or have failed to resonate) with békés: Marie-Reine de Jaham's La grande béké...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 69–77.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Martin Munro The Littérature-monde manifesto, published in 2007, seems to announce a new era for writing in French from non-metropolitan regions. It moreover suggests that this moment marks a “Copernican revolution” in the literary history of France and the French-speaking world. This article...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 June 2008
... argument, as well as for its silences, errors, and innumerable paths of deviation and reflection that it opens. The work is a truly Caribbean contraption, combining autobiography, philosophical argumentation, certain features of the political manifesto, and various modalities of criticism with a good deal...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Martin Munro; Celia Britton This essay introduces part 1 of a special section on the créolité movement—“Eulogizing Creoleness? Rereading Éloge de la créolité ”—in which a variety of essays explore and assess the impact, twenty-five-plus years on, of the controversial manifesto by Patrick Chamoiseau...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 199–210.
Published: 01 March 2017
... literary universe when composing their manifesto. 30 Anne Walmsley, “The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966–1972,” in Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd et al., Transforming the Crown (New York: Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center, 1997), 50. See also Anne Walmsley, The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 115–129.
Published: 01 July 2024
...-language words like maricón (Mary), its diminutive mariquita (ladybug), mariposa (butterfly), and marimacha (a macho Mary). In this keyword essay, the author engages a SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts Together!) manifesto, a column by Karla Claudio-Betancourt, and scholarly pieces on queer language. He...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 21–32.
Published: 01 November 2010
.... If Kundera's theorization of the (globalized) European novel is vitiated by its ignorance of the critical ground covered by Caribbean thinkers, equally the manifesto in favour of `une littérature-monde' –surprisingly signed by Glissant ( Le Monde, 2007) – also distorts the complex interconnections of European...
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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)): 121–134.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., and now ninth, decade of his life. The article analyses contributions to manifestos, reports, open letters and other public documents relating to topics such as slavery, colonial memory, ecology and the relationship of France to the Antillean DOM-ROMs. Attenuating Chris Bongie's association of Glissant...
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Créolité and the Regime of Visibility: Reading Les neuf consciences du Malfini by Patrick Chamoiseau
Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 115–125.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of writing, the analysis starts by examining what the author calls the regime of visibility and its ontological implications in the 1989 manifesto Éloge de la créolité . This then serves as a basis for a close reading of Patrick Chamoiseau’s 2009 novel Les neuf consciences du Malfini , narrated from...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 189–197.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., and music. But one is left yearning for a more comprehensive
statement on the Caribbean novel and Caribbean poetry beyond the focus on manifestos
and their claims for the literature. In an attempt to highlight some of the continuous
threads of the book and to break down the possible misreading...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., and music. But one is left yearning for a more comprehensive
statement on the Caribbean novel and Caribbean poetry beyond the focus on manifestos
and their claims for the literature. In an attempt to highlight some of the continuous
threads of the book and to break down the possible misreading...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 218–229.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., and music. But one is left yearning for a more comprehensive
statement on the Caribbean novel and Caribbean poetry beyond the focus on manifestos
and their claims for the literature. In an attempt to highlight some of the continuous
threads of the book and to break down the possible misreading...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 230–232.
Published: 01 February 2006
..., and music. But one is left yearning for a more comprehensive
statement on the Caribbean novel and Caribbean poetry beyond the focus on manifestos
and their claims for the literature. In an attempt to highlight some of the continuous
threads of the book and to break down the possible misreading...
Journal Article
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 63–81.
Published: 01 March 2004
... “evidence”
to the contrary. One keen academic, Ralph Premdas, has this view on the matter:
It is important to note in all of this that neither the PPP nor the PNC projected itself as a com-
munalist party. Each had developed a sophisticated party manifesto with a clear defi nition...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
... associated with Haitian literature outside of Haiti until the end
of that era. Frankétienne and Fignolé do, however, now travel to promote their work. Invoking
literary star systems, Glover contrasts the Spiralists with their theory- and manifesto-writing
Martinican counterparts whose work publishes...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
...—the figures who can be perceived as its chief theorists have a primary commitment to radical social change rather than the creation of scholarly manuscripts; its expression in manifestos and speeches rather than scholarly tomes; and the profound (and uncompleted) epistemological decolonization necessary...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 63–73.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in recent years. In a 2000 Manifesto for a Global Project, he proposes to
end economic dependency on France by transforming Martinique into an ecological brand—
“Martinique, premier pays biologique du monde” (Martinique, leading organic country of the
world)—that would “conquer...
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