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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 17–39.
Published: 01 November 2017
...,” and “the transnational” as distinct historical phases in a teleologic progression, and exposes the polarization of history and memory, archive and body, that increasingly undergirds diaspora studies' memory-work. Although the concept of “diasporic memory” has scholarly traction, it also places enormous pressure...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Woman exemplifies postindenture or “coolietude” aesthetics otherwise documented in art, performance, and photography. Taking this up, the commentary’s letter form is counterarchival, an imaginative and intergenerational object that cites Bahadur’s techniques of memory work and her provocation...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 59–66.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., but a secular perspective does not fully answer what makes certain historical narratives persuasive to particular audiences. Paying closer attention to this sacralizing power of heritage can provide new insights into workings of postcolonial memory and heritage. 31 See Van de Port and Meyer, Sense...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 25–36.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and yet their work has been little studied in the anglophone world. This article focuses on Martinican intellectual Edouard Glissant's contribution to memory studies through his combined role as theoretician (in works such as his 2007 publication Mémoires des esclavages ) and practician (in his role...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 105–114.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Dominique Brebion The titles of the exhibitions and works of visual artists from the Francophone Caribbean often underline the extent to which the theme of memory remains at the heart of their work. This problematic is broken down into three branches. The feeling of an irremediable loss provokes...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 200–209.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Aisha Khan In this essay I explore key tropes in the study of the Caribbean and New World African diasporas, focusing on the work of Richard Price, and, in particular, Travels With Tooy. I engage some problematic issues in the definition and apprehension of memory, history, and cultural...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 119–143.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and a portrait—a funerary portrait of a legacy of unspeakable violence,
an activation point and container of memory.
Generally, the art historical literature on the painting praises it as a distinctive work in the
artist’s oeuvre. In the two or three lines dedicated to it in several...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 39–57.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Naïma Hachad et Valérie Loichot This essay addresses the aesthetics and politics of “restitution” in the works of Victor Anicet, a contemporary ceramist and painter from Martinique. Specifically, it investigates the mixed-media piece titled Restitution as a site of memory, restoration, reinvention...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 71–82.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw This article explores the poetics of return in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker and her latest work, Brother, I'm Dying . Focusing on the roles of memory, imagination, borrowed recollections, and autobiography, the article illustrates how Danticat writes this return...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 94–111.
Published: 01 July 2017
..., apartheid, imperial, neoliberal—that connect black and brown lives both in the global South and global North. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 South Africa indentureship Afro-Asian memory diaspora aesthetics apartheid blackness memory work slavery fleshiness sugarcane Indenture may be seen...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 164–184.
Published: 01 July 2009
... effectively than any conventional
work of art the constant presence and reality of violence in the contemporary popular culture.
Conclusion
The question raised at the start of this essay was how the visual memories of social crises are
forged in the art of the moment, and the examples discussed...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 108–114.
Published: 01 November 2011
... and Glissant as a person have also of
course influenced my own relation with him and his work, so that this tribute to him would be
incomplete without recording a few of my memories of Edouard the man as well as Glissant
the author.
I first met Edouard in 1996, when he...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 161–174.
Published: 01 July 2018
... in combination with the authors’ memories of dialogue and mentorship by the recently departed elder. By highlighting “the anecdotal” as a central dimension to how De Moya sought to mobilize and disrupt the positivist scientific paradigms in which he was trained, the two scholars suggest that De Moya’s work...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 181–186.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of critical re-memories. The essay foregrounds the backstory to make visible the intellectual care work that attends this practice. © 2020 Small Axe, Inc. 2020 disagreements critical re-memories interconnected inquiries familiar colonial logics critical intellectual oral histories What has...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 36–49.
Published: 01 July 2021
...César Colón-Montijo Margarita “Doña Margot” Rivera García (1909–2000) was a black working-class Puerto Rican woman whose labor as a composer, healer, midwife, and spiritual medium made her an esteemed community leader among her neighbors from Santurce, a predominantly black enclave in San Juan...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 102–120.
Published: 01 November 2015
... into the same heritage? What is the proper time and place of a poet or a poem? What is the work of legacy? How might the effort to memorialize a poet detach us from the material conditions of his or her emergence? © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 René Char Edouard GLissant Saint John Perse Martinique...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 124–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... this place here at Irish Town as developing into a Caribbean Research Archive Centre & after she died I continued working towards this in her memory—when like the hurricane lick me down but not out—let me tell you.” Hurricane Gilbert was Kamau’s second catastrophe, one that injected reality into his...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2009
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formations: the regional Caribbean and the mainland United States. Our aim was to fore-
ground the crucial register of memory and the memory-practices by means of which the past
is remembered, documented, circulated, and made available for the labor of intellectual and
artistic work...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2014
... that continues to disfigure the present and foreclose the future. It is perhaps this revised temporal sensibility that has made the language of trauma—and the memory-work that sustains it—so arresting for thinking about the persistence of harms resulting from the perpetration of historical wrongs. And it is also...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 137–153.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Were Not Heroes uses her family history
to visually narrate the past of Afro-Cubans. And Petrona Morrison’s early assemblages
use discarded materials to refl ect on the process of personal and cultural memory work.
Indeed, there are many other artists who have sought to tell, to politicize...
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