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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 102–115.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and an observed otherness attitude among Dutch Caribbean intellectuals. 77 Gary Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015), 2, 12, 15. 76 Bonilla, “Ordinary Sovereignty,” 164. 75 Ibid., 35. 74 Eric Williams...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 162–173.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Kreyòl-language instruction in a mission report she authored for the colonial governor of Martinique after her visit to Haiti. On the other hand, that same visit illuminated ways Kreyòl allowed Césaire to articulate some of her ideas about Caribbean identity. She wrote as much in a letter to her friend...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2009
... the outsider in the region. Focusing primarily on Indians, the essay explores the tropes of the “home and the world” in which “otherness” emerges as metaphors in the fictional works of Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World which resonates in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas . The `Other...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
Published: 01 July 2009
... fractalization of civil rights based forms of domestic social order, and equally, the new minoritarian condition of whiteness, provide apposite bases from within which to rethink race politics in an age of failed states. Small Axe Inc. 2009 Whiteness as War by Other
Means: Racial Complexity in
an Age...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 166–181.
Published: 01 November 2013
... about otherness and difference constituted in relation to the universal unmarked category of the West. Second, that this relation between anthropology and alterity can be fully exposed only by tracing the historical emergence of the West through its imaginative and material relations with others...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 201–208.
Published: 01 July 2017
... look like outside of the search for national sovereignty? I will admit this was a somewhat self-indulgent interrogation, rooted in my own frustrations with political life in Puerto Rico, where I felt that the obsession with political status had become an obstacle to the pursuit of other agendas...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Germaine, Evangeline,
and Other “Negro Girls”:
Rudy Burckhardt’s Caribbean
Peter James Hudson
James Weldon Johnson once recalled Port-au-Prince as “the finest city of all the Latin-
American seaports” that he had seen.1 Few others have echoed his claim. Instead, Haiti’s...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 67–77.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the fact that representations of the Cuban nation were based on the exclusion of Africa and its descendants through their association with barbarism, primitivism, and backwardness. On the other, he replaced these narratives with a Marxist reading of the ideals of nationhood. In the absence of a counter...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... differently if greater attention is paid to the Dutch Caribbean. The essays included in the section demonstrate the shifting role that De Kom and his book have played—from the 1930s and the anxieties they created for the colonial state; to their international impact on other revolutionary movements...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
... to literature to help us see the continuities and ruptures between the past and the present. Staceyann Chin's memoir, The Other Side of Paradise , suggests how the subject positions that largely occupy her in the narrative (mixed-race Jamaican, sexual “deviant,” unwanted child) bear echoes of the treatment...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 164–175.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Lewis R. Gordon This response essay addresses anti-Blackness and other fears of Black consciousness through discussing analyses and critiques of the author’s Fear of Black Consciousness (2022) offered by Nathalie Etoke, Terrence L. Johnson, and André Brock. Concepts under discussion include bad...
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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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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 70–88.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in Europe, is interpellated into the position of white other, or “whitey,” as she is called on the streets. It argues that McGilchrist's art constitutes a poetics or a “how” of stepping into and negotiating white identity as a place of recognition. The essay explores McGilchrist's visual engagement...
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Published: 01 November 2019
(records of the work of others) (detail), 2017. Wax rubbings of coral stones on Aqaba paper, displayed across a wall. Courtesy of the artist.
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., the nation, and other collective ensembles to critique the failure of patriarchy, racist nationalism, classism, and heterosexism in the novel's postcolonial context. Although Condé's transnational intervention does not provide an alternative model in the sense of a stable structure, the politics of crossing...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 39–56.
Published: 01 July 2009
... of racial democracy, and some “types of mixture” are clearly preferred in detriment of others. I argue that anti-black racism in Brazil is expressed not only against dark-skinned individuals, but it also operates in the devaluing of physical traits “deemed black” even in those who have lighter skin...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 164–173.
Published: 01 July 2011
... that already in the 1870s, Thomas defined creole identity as normative and national in part by contrasting it to Indian and other ethnic identities. Smith illuminates the significant role women and womanhood played in the construction of creole identity and respectable middle-class nationalism. As importantly...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
... across the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. Artistic comrades for twenty years, they have also collaborated with each other in performance and video. Here, they offer a deep exchange about their creative practice, paying special attention to two works individually premiered on a split bill...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
... to critique the prevalent narrative in the Dominican Republic that positions Haiti as the black other against which a “white” Dominican nationalism is created. Attending to Indiana's appropriation of the moniker La Montra , or female monster, alongside her usage of drag and black-/brownface in order...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
... literature. Building on Pérez-Rosario's documentation of Burgos's relationship to water and paying particular attention to how water served as an escape route for the poet, this work places Burgos in dialogue not only with Puerto Rican literature but also with other Caribbean poets such as Derek Walcott...
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