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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 112–134.
Published: 01 March 2009
... utilized by the newly independent country of Jamaica to authorize a new concept of the self that had been marginalized under colonial rule. As a new and different model of achievement, the local and mostly black “ancestral” heroic figures and their attending monuments served to instill a sense of pride...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 23–38.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Shalini Puri Small Axe Incorporated 2003 Beyond Resistance: Notes Toward a
New Caribbean Cultural Studies
Shalini Puri
he noted anthropologist Peter Wilson, in his 1973 book Crab Antics,¹ observed in
Caribbean societies a fundamental and structuring tension between...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 176–188.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Martin Munro Master of the New:
Tradition and Intertextuality in Dany
Laferrière’s Pays sans chapeau
Martin Munro
any Laferrière occupies a very particular place in contemporary Haitian writing.
Something of a one-man literary movement, Laferrière stands between the 1960s...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 164–172.
Published: 01 November 2011
... , brought about a reevaluation of political and economic ideas, laws, and relationships critical to the development of the nation-state. Additionally, post–US occupation was one of several key moments when a notion of a new Haiti proved fruitful for activists and thinkers of the day, who believed...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
Published: 01 March 2015
... as a conceptual frame in Caribbean theory and literature. This essay pushes for a New World African diasporic rethinking of Cape Town as an alternative city-space within such imaginaries—alternative to that for which Harlem has become metonymic: the New Negro and the Renaissance in black literary and cultural...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 88–99.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... Themes from this conversation include the roles of black subjects in English and American popular culture, the emergence of a new black aesthetic and poetics, and the centrality of the idea of difference to Hall's late-twentieth-century understanding of black identity and culture. The essay also...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 155–166.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of the Constitution of 1940 and the publication of Fernando Ortiz’s celebrated Cuban Counterpoint . It explores Lezama Lima’s essay as a response to this moment in Cuban history as one that sought to forge, according to Rafael Rojas, a new “pact of national reconciliation,” and was characterized by anxieties over...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
... that transpires in Hispanic Caribbean New York. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Fernando Ortiz hispanophone Caribbean diaspora contact zone Nuyorican Caliban Miguel Algarín Jesus Abraham “Tato” Laviera Roberto Márquez Lourdes Casal Spanglish Puerto Rican diaspora For Tato Laviera 35 Algarín...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 199–207.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Kaiama L. Glover The 2010 earthquake has given rise to and put into wide(r) circulation a narrative very much of a piece with the long-standing discourse of Haitian singularity. This recent, though not new, narrative is premised not only on the notion of Haiti's endless suffering but also...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the New World approach to the region. Titled “Paths to National Self-Discovery: USA and Puerto Rico,” it first appeared in 1956 and was written by Daniel J. Boorstin, a historian of the United States. Unlike conventional scholarship on the Caribbean, including the definitive work, The People of Puerto...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Robert A. Hill This essay examines the role played by George Beckford in grappling critically with the complicated legacy of the plantation system. It focuses on the transition from his role in the New World group to his participation in the Abeng newspaper group in Jamaica, in 1969. The essay...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 16–33.
Published: 01 October 2007
... on the sociology of mobilities and space, this article suggests that changes in technologies of transportation and communciation, media discourses, and cultural performances of travel within recent regimes of neoliberal governance and regulation are contributing to new ways of developing, curating and staging...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Timothy J. Reiss This essay tracks Kamau Brathwaite’s life, his poetic and critical writing, and his travails and thinking, from youth and early career—in Barbados, England, Ghana, and the Caribbean, but mainly from his arrival at New York University in 1991—through his retirement in 2013...
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Published: 01 November 2017
Figure 1. Map of Kingston, showing the location of New Kingston and other centers of power in the city. The map was prepared by Shauna'h Fuegen.
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in Puerto Rican Colonialism, Caribbean Radicalism, and Pueblos Hispanos ’s Inter-Nationalist Alliance
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 3 Inaugural banquet in honor of Pueblos Hispanos , Commodore Hotel, New York City, 21 February 1943. Guests included Jesús Colón, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Clemente Soto Velez, Vito Marcantonio, Thyra Edwards, Charles Collins, and Pablo Neruda. Box OS_IX, folder 13, the Jesús Colón Papers
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Aaron Kamugisha This essay introduces Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World,” an unpublished 900-plus-page manuscript written by Wynter in the 1970s. “Black Metamorphosis” is a remarkable manuscript, and it deserves close study for a number of reasons. It is arguably...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 129–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Aaron Kamugisha “Black Metamorphosis,” Sylvia Wynter's unpublished manuscript of the 1970s, is premised on the idea that the black experience of coloniality is crucial to comprehending the history of the New World. This essay traces the idea of black experience in “Black Metamorphosis” through...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Figure 1. Map of Kingston, showing the location of New Kingston and other centers of power in the city. The map was prepared by Shauna'h Fuegen. ...
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Published: 01 March 2013
Figure 1. “Marcus Garvey, New York City,” 1922 (photographer unknown). © Corbis
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 17–33.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of liberation, James reiterates a European tradition often attributed to l’Abbé Raynal who, in his Histoire des deux Indes (1770–80), predicted a new Spartacus would “drive [the enslaved] to vengeance and to carnage.” 24 James’s romanticization of literacy and its purported linkage to Raynal’s “vengeance...
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