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...Rinaldo Walcott The attempt to narrate and represent a coherent black masculinity in its singularity is in part what I want to respond to in this essay. But even more, I want to suggest that thinking about a range and variety of black manhoods and masculinities might provide analysts with a set...

...Maja Horn This essay is a response to Carlos Ulises Decena's and Dixa Ramírez's reading of Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). As both discussants note, the study emphasizes the important task of multiplying the archives of Dominican literature...

...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...

... production that decenter both the written word and traditional masculine iconography and instead engage with the embodied, spiritual, and performed. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 C. L. R James Vodou Black Jacobins Black feminism Haitian Revolution performance...

..., of excess, of gender disturbance—namely, queerness—rather than as only a sign of masculine homosexuality in the Caribbean, expose a very French malaise around questions of genre and issues destabilizing heterosexual norms? This French Creole word could thus help us examine and (re)imagine queerness...

... Schomburg outside of frameworks that cast him as a heroic rescuer of memory and therefore as an avatar of idealized masculine respectability. Lastly, this essay asks that we consider not just the historical actors and cultural producers that Schomburg devoted himself to illuminating but also how his...

..., calling attention to the damage done to women. The phallic bones in Bone Yard wag, flaunting their masculine power, but death, burial, and the end/beginning are part of the journey. From the ashes of the Phoenix, we leap into life and go home. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 ...

... that is inclusive of Haiti. Although the limitations of revolutionary masculinity and regional sameness are evident in the text, Betances proposes a politics of unity beyond nationhood that interconnects with later decolonial projects of coliberation. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Small Axe, Inc...

... function as theoretical categories of lesser priority in the discussion of a racial diaspora imaginary, despite the hypervisibility of certain notions of black masculinity and femininity in popular cultural forms that travel between home and abroad. With readings of one canonical diaspora text, Frantz...

...Tonya Haynes This essay traces the rise of the crisis school of Caribbean heteromasculinity studies through a critical reading across popular writing, policy research, and scholarly work on Caribbean masculinity. Mobilizing insights that Sylvia Wynter articulated in “Black Metamorphosis...

...Dixa Ramírez This essay amplifies some of Maja Horn's arguments in Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). First, the essay adds texture to Horn's assessment of the Trujillo regime in relation to race by arguing that what Horn discerns as the Trujillato 's...

... indexes the aim of this unforgettable presence to make space for social and sexual dissent and to practice a social science committed to decolonization. Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Dominican sexuality queer masculinity empiricism Quiero decirle al viento, a la tierra, a las...

... film Le président a-t-il le SIDA? (Does the President Have AIDS?) to theorize the idea of stigma in AIDS representation.4 Queer theory is a particularly useful analytical tool for disturbing some of the facile conclusions about sexuality and masculinity that these texts could engender...

... immigration to the West Indies.3 Lowe, impregnated by Cecil on the voyage, subse- quently gives birth to a daughter who looks more like Cecil than her. In order to secure Lowe’s masculine identity and his masculinity, Cecil engineers Lowe’s “marriage” to Miss Sylvie, an octoroon Cecil blackmails after...

...., the latter of which pro- phylatically produced the antigay “Chi Chi Man” as one of their first hits.3 It was a moment in which the emphasis on dance seemed to liberate a certain form of Jamaican masculine high- spiritedness. In counterpoint to the jeremiads of Bounty Killer, “the poor...

... Stolzoff,Wake the Town; Marvin Sterling, “In the Shadow of the Universal Other: Performative Identifications with Jamaican Culture in Japan (PhD thesis, University of California, 2002); Donna P. Hope, “British Link-Up Crew: Consumption Masquerading as Masculinity in Dancehall...

... analysis, I account for lesbian-identified women’s engagement with and performance of masculinity as the manner in which they challenge patriarchal power structures frequently taken for granted by gay men, who are differently navigating a neoliberal LGBT Caribbean context that is undergirded by US...

...- vating forgotten lives and hidden histories; refashioning masculinities, queer sexualities, and black subjectivities; and imagining a future beyond empire. No one yearns more fervently for a future beyond empire than the child of empire. No one suffers more greatly the knowledge...

...Belinda Edmondson Small Axe Incorporated 2006 BOOK DISCUSSION: Black Empire Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962, Michelle Stephens. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0822335514 African American Manhood...