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The Dual Biopolitics in the Cuban Postplantation of Gloria Rolando’s Raíces de mi corazón
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
Published: 01 July 2021
... orisha rituals to patakíes (Afro-Cuban oral tradition), over a reappropriated plantational space in which black sensuality contests negative biopolitical forms. Rolando not only draws from transnational critical race theory to address the myth of Latin American exceptionalism, she also challenges Michel...
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Daniel Maximin’s Lone Sun : Disrupting the Tides of History and Memory
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 69–84.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Leanna Thomas This essay explores how Daniel Maximin constructs an imagined past in his novel Lone Sun by wrenching archival sources out of their domain and context and selectively situating them in a narrative replete with cultural and oral traditions. It examines how Maximin remembers those who...
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Pays-là chaviré : Revolutionary Politics in Nineteenth-Century Haitian Creole Popular Music
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 18–36.
Published: 01 March 2016
... to date back to the revolutionary era. 39 Drums, cannons, and military-style music that are reappropriated through popular traditions such as rara have traditionally been one of the primary means of conveying a response to political, economic, and social issues within Haiti, as well as sending...
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The Birth of “Quow”: Michael McTurk and the Minstrel Origins of the Civic Tradition of Creole Verse
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
Published: 01 November 2022
...” character from oral culture within the crossfire of heated yet formal public letters regarding the inquiry. The ballad supplies the means for McTurk to “Black up” the planter voice. In the process, he unwittingly inaugurated a regional tradition of public Creole verse authorship, one whose later exponents...
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The Living Word: Intracultural Translation in Ina Césaire's Zonzon tête carrée
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
... to music. Interestingly, by leaning toward musicality, like Ina Césaire, Glissant suggests that for Caribbean oral traditions to live on they need more than just to be remembered; they also need to be transposed, or translated into new forms if they are to revitalize a community's expression and let...
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Shake Keane's “Nonsense”: An Alternative Approach to Caribbean Folk Culture
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 71–92.
Published: 01 September 2003
... and distinctive is the way it demonstrates the nature of folk
culture’s oppositional and regenerative role, not just for certain elements of the society
but for the whole of a society in the Caribbean. As more and more of the elements of
that rural life and the oral tradition that it celebrates disappear...
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Preface: Erna Brodber’s Social Ethics of Black Memory
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2022
... tradition in which [a] group’s history [is] handed down” has not developed. 5 This, though, is exactly what needs to be stimulated. Brodber concludes by urging that “the oral sources can satisfy the needs filled by fiction without doing violence to the norms for historical writing.” 6 The full...
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(W)uman Tong(ue): Writing a Bilingual Newspaper Column in “Postcolonial” Jamaica
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 215–225.
Published: 01 November 2023
... jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20230702/carolyn-cooper-gleaner-promoting-literacy-fi-wi-language . [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2023 Jamaican language politics neocolonialism bilingualism gender politics oral tradition Despite their fashionably postmodernist...
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Rastafari, the Transnational Archive, and Postcolonial Caribbean Intellectual History
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 116–131.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston: Beacon, 1995), 52. 9 For examples, see Jan Vansina, Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Methodology , trans. H. M. Wright (London: Transaction, 1965); Jan Vansina, Oral Tradition as History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985...
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Black Caribs / Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... on through rituals, practices, symbols, and other unwritten aspects of Garifuna culture and oral traditions. As LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant suggests regarding ancestral memory among Gullah/Geechee communities, “[Memory] encompasses the features of the past that are very much a part of the present...
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Echoes in the Bone: Hearing Africa in Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Caribbean
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 86–97.
Published: 01 July 2023
... familiar with the Nairobi initiative. Reforms to the English curriculum at Mona proceeded more cautiously than those in Nairobi. Nevertheless, by making Anglo-Saxon poetry’s relationship to oral traditions in Africa and the Caribbean explicit, Maureen’s teaching drew on these cutting-edge pedagogical...
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From Fanon to Glissant: A Martinican Genealogy
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 12–24.
Published: 01 November 2009
... a successful national consciousness in dynamic rather than
ossified oral traditions:
On another level, the oral tradition—stories, epics, and songs of the people—which formerly
were filed away as set pieces are now beginning to change. The storytellers who used to relate...
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Contributors
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 186–189.
Published: 01 November 2009
... is the author of Théâtres des
Antilles: Traditions et scènes contemporaines (2009), and has published articles on the history
of Caribbean theater, on the use of Creole and French, on oral tradition, on drum music and
dance (gwoka), on the integration of rituals (carnival, Vodou) in Caribbean theater...
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Beyond Fugitive Speech: Rumor and Affect in Caribbean History
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 123–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
... from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). 33 Jan Vansina, Oral Tradition as History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985). 32 Rigoberta Menchú, with Elizabeth Burgos-Debray, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 205–208.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... G ordon R ohlehr is emeritus professor of West Indian literature at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, where he worked from 1968 to 2007. His main areas of research and publication include West Indian literature (poetry, the novel), oral tradition, the calypso, popular culture, West...
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Dub Poetry as a Black Atlantic Body-Archive
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
... interdependence across multiple borders (temporal, national, “performance/poetry/politrix/roots/reggae,” 22 of textuality and orality, of African and Western cultural traditions), dub stresses its geohistorical matrix, explaining why debates about origins are frustrated if some single originary homeland...
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Negritude’s Problem with History: The Case of Léonard Sainville
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2019
... constantly falsified, deliberately obscured, or quite simply denied, because it found itself in the hands of the conquerors. . . . With the near-total conquest of Africa, a colonial history was imposed alongside an authentic Negro discipline, made up predominantly of oral traditions and almost entirely...
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Remembering to Reinvent One's Future
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 84–92.
Published: 01 November 2009
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Currently, I am presenting at the Havana Biennale an installation titled The Library, in
dialogue with the following text: “Our knowledge of America’s history is incomplete, because
an important part of this history was an oral tradition.”
I replaced books with dolls. Each doll...
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Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of redundant colonial models underlies the intention in that book to secure acknowledgment for a West Indian “nation language” formed from centuries of linguistic hybridization and oral traditions. Such is the achievement by enslaved people forced into illiteracy and condemned after emancipation...
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Disturbing the Neighbors
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 237–245.
Published: 01 November 2023
... but could never be of literary value. “Legitimately prolonging the mighty line of Marlowe, of Milton” (as he later recalled himself attempting to do in his early verse), 11 Walcott imagined the Caribbean writer nourished by an English literary tradition that had been mixed with a Caribbean oral...
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