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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of surveillance assemblages. But even more than a feeling, Maroon insecurity might be said to describe an experience of precarity. This attention to these Maroon in/securities revises the grand narratives of marronage in heroic terms that have often been dominant in the cultural and popular imagination across...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 128–135.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Johnhenry Gonzalez The memory and language of colonial marronage shape the zeitgeist and the wider history of Haiti as nation. This essay takes as its point of departure the recent use of small boats by armed gangs in Haiti to revisit the shipboard dimensions of marronage and the country’s history...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 184–192.
Published: 01 July 2017
... moments of discontinuity and rupture. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 freedom non-sovereignty Yarimar Bonilla marronage Guadeloupe If men wish to be free, it is precisely sovereignty they must renounce. —Hannah Arendt, “What Is Freedom?” Yarimar Bonilla's Non-Sovereign Futures: French...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 151–159.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., that in their work they have all resisted the return to marronage and fugitivity. Those two terms, which were resuscitated through the work of Fred Moten and Neil Roberts, have been extended to mean a kind of freedom. 5 Indeed, black women scholars in their contributions seem to be cautious about the ways...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... epistemological status as the Garifuna homeland associated with ancestral marronage. The author looks at how public performances of Garifuna Settlement Day in Central America and the United States (New York City is home to the largest Garifuna communities outside Central America’s Caribbean coasts) open...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
...” and represents one such species itself as an epic political project of African/diasporic resistance anchored all across the Americas. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Marronage Césaire survival indigenization black studies That initiation was the beginning of transformation and that the ecology...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 76–82.
Published: 01 March 2024
... (nation, race, island). These categories may not bear truth where they are born, and they certainly fail to assist true insight when used as a lens for the familiar practices that the book invites its readers to reconsider, beyond the veil of categories: speculating, marronage, the sacred in Marcus...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... theories champion African Jamaican land and food commons as a model for abolitionist futures. © Small Axe, Inc. 2021 abolition commons Jamaica marronage Robert Wedderburn was born in 1762 in Jamaica to his enslaved mother named Rosanna. His father, James Wedderburn, owned several large...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 132–141.
Published: 01 March 2020
... on to reflect on and trouble preconceived ideas about Maroon subjectivity, marronage , and Africa . It concludes by imagining ways Schomburg would engage our present. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 Maroon marronage black dignity Afro-epistemes Afro-Caribbean Afro-Latinx Afro-Latin...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... I describe as marronage in flight and antistate responses. Decolonization as a political future links both projects not only in the foundation of modern nation-states but also in the formation of cultural nationalism. This is key for the representations of landscape and territory, as we see...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 34–48.
Published: 01 July 2024
... fugitivity marronage sabor flavor food sovereignty In her 2019 article “A Pilgrimage to the Keeper of Puerto Rico’s Past, before She Disappears,” the food writer Illyanna Maisonet recounts her journey to explore Puerto Rico’s culinary past. Her voyage takes her to el Burén de Lula, a restaurant...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
... ; it foregrounds the instability of colonial grammars and their attendant binaries. The author pairs the poetic resistance with the colonial grammars of Sylvia Wynter, Aimé Césaire, and fahima ife, with the instability of simarrona in the archival record to propose a way of reading archives of marronage...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 142–151.
Published: 01 March 2020
... surrounding him and his contemporaries. The exchange includes ruminations about marronage and Maroon subjectivity; the futurity of the archive, including its omissions; and a redefining of blackness as a force that ruptures and disrupts facile categorization. 2 For a fictional rendering of Estevanico, see...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
... colonial representations and create community in profound ways. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s work on colonial epistemologies and representation in relation to questions of race and decolonization and on Rex Nettleford’s discussion of embodiment and marronage, the author lays out a method of decolonial...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 201–208.
Published: 01 July 2017
... that the “real analytical target” of my book is not sovereignty but freedom. 31 On this we disagree. Unlike attempts that might seek to theorize non-sovereignty or marronage as a form of freedom, my work seeks to examine how marronage, lyannaj , and strategic entanglement constitute political categories...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): v–ix.
Published: 01 February 2006
... been particularly charged sites historically, lying as they
did at the edges of competing empires: their signifi cance marked by piracy, contraband,
marronage, the production of people of intermediate (mestizo) or unclassifi able “race,”
and the invention of new languages from older...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 24–44.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Republic’s and Haiti’s shared heritage of marronage with Africa is a radical move, one that counters the fatal-conflict narrative. In Rueda’s imagination, Makandal is transformed into a figure of modernity with the capacity to embody the island. The poet imagines a new collectivity, a whole island taking its...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 102–120.
Published: 01 November 2015
... offer a model of rebellion, resistance, or marronage for the people of Martinique to follow. Insofar as poetry resists immediate reference and thus remains “inexhaustible,” poetry can recall the inexhaustible and resistant richness that lies buried within the “Martiniquais ordinaire.” Chamoiseau makes...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Dragtenstein, Alles voor de vrede: De brieven van Boston Band tussen 1757 en 1763 (Amsterdam / The Hague: NiNsee/Amrit, 2009). 56 However, it should be remembered that because the plantation system was a modern phenomenon, marronage, as a response to it, is inherently modern as well. The Maroons...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2023
... ontologies grounded on the violent practices of othering while also pointing us toward new conditions of possibility based on relationality. [email protected] © 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Caribbean marronage Black social movements human speciesism colonialism La Colmena Cimarrona...
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