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The Periodic Table
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 126–142.
Published: 01 November 2012
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Interim Time: Recasting the Revolutionary Jamaican 1970s
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 52–61.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Donette Francis This essay argues that the Jamaican 1970s is perhaps the most contested decade in Jamaican historiography. While there remains a contest over the positions and the stakes of narrating this period, there is consensus of the traumatic hold of the Jamaican 1970s that was at once...
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Thinking Haiti's Nineteenth Century
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 72–79.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Laurent Dubois This essay grapples with the problem of how to think Haiti's nineteenth century, analyzing a range of literature that has tackled the question and exploring key themes in these works. Understanding this period in Haiti's history is critical for any comprehension of the long-term...
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Indefensible: On Aristide, Violence, and Democracy
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 161–173.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Alex Dupuy This article analyzes the shifts in the balance of power between Aristide and the Haitian dominant and middle classes and the foreign powers (the United States, France, and Canada) during the two periods of Aristide's presidency (1991/1994-1996, and 2001-2004). In the first period...
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What Happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora?
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 85–92.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in Suriname and in the Netherlands used for themselves in different periods? What have Whites called African descendant people in Suriname and in the Netherlands in different periods? When does Black come to the fore? Who mobilizes the term and for what purposes? This exercise brings forward important...
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The Public Sphere and Jamaican Anticolonial Politics: Public Opinion, Focus , and the Place of the Literary
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 56–82.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of the publications from this period associated with the Manley family, the newspaper Public Opinion and the literary journal Focus , speaks to the alliance but also the cleavages between the political and the literary. It looks at Public Opinion 's publication history from its founding in 1937 through...
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To the “Sons” of Dessalines and of Pétion: Radicalism and the Idea of a “New” Haiti
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 164–172.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Millery Polyné This article examines the benefits and limitations of radicalism in Haiti during the post–US occupation period—1934–57. This critical and underexplored period, which Matthew J. Smith examines in his Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957...
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Globalization and Political Action in the Work of Edouard Glissant
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 1–11.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Celia M. Britton Critical work on Glissant often divides his writing into two periods: before and after the publication of Le Discours antillais in 1981. In the first he focuses mainly on Martinique and its social, political and cultural problems, while the second broadens out, via the concept...
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Parricidal Son: The Murder of Cassia Rivulet and the Collapse of Postcolonial Time
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 1–21.
Published: 01 July 2012
... constitutes the nonarrival of postcoloniality as it is anticipated by Frantz Fanon's periodization of fraternal violence. The familial murder embodies an unbroken period of self-killing that warrants a critical reexamination of the provisions of our postcoloniality and the terms of West Indian identity...
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More Relevant Than Ever: We Slaves of Suriname Today
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 87–99.
Published: 01 March 2023
... the oppression and exploitation of people on the basis of “race” and class, both during the period of slavery and after its abolition. Although he became known as a national hero in Suriname, in the former colonial metropole of the Netherlands his name, work, and life story were relatively unknown. In 2020...
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Redefining Mestizaje : How Trans-Caribbean Exchanges Solidified Black Consciousness in Cuba
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 91–108.
Published: 01 July 2021
.... Using oral histories, cultural productions, and meetings between Caribbean intellectuals, this examination of Afro-Cuban activism reframes the period leading up to Nancy Morejón’s 1982 Nación y mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén to show that the poet was one of many artists-activists who resurrected black...
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Dancing in an Enclosure: Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé An examination of the significance of dance performances in the demonstrations of the Puerto Rican summer of 2019, this essay argues that these performances belong to a history of irreverent, extravagant mourning gestures that periodically irrupt in Puerto Rican culture...
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Universalism in Unevenness: Writing History at the Hill
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 84–94.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that the book offers a methodology of writing history, both in terms of the periodic expanse of such a history and positing the historical problematic. She argues that Rodney produces a universal history insofar as universality is assumed in the social relations of exploitation and consequently solidarities...
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From Haiti to Congo: Colonial Fault Lines in the Life and Work of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
... in Europe during a period when ethnology relied on empire to assert its utility to the state, Comhaire-Sylvain’s work unfolded along colonial fault lines, a dimension this essay seeks to tease out. The analysis focuses on a 1947 essay she published in La Voix des Femmes , the newspaper of Haiti’s first...
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Erotic Synergies and Variances in the Sexual Vernacular of the Postcolonial Dutch Caribbean
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., represents a spectrum of women’s relationships. This essay compares kambrada and mati, exploring their sociosexual meanings within the Dutch Caribbean. It traces the usage of kambrada through four historical periods, beginning with its negative portrayal in the late nineteenth century and subsequent...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
... as political actors and not merely passive bystanders or martyrs. It then sketches, in the postdictatorship period, the emergence of new gender-focused organizations, NGOs, academic programs, and political quotas for women, foregrounding how, despite these advances, political and social gains have been uneven...
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Reading Postemancipation In/Security: Negotiations of Everyday Freedom
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 105–114.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Anyaa Anim-Addo This essay examines in/securities through a central focus on strategies for securing livelihoods after emancipation. While the postemancipation period in the Caribbean was marked by clamorous debate about the region’s economic future, this essay is concerned with the quieter...
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Politicizing In/Security, Transnational Resistance, and the 1919 Riots in Cardiff and Liverpool
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 56–67.
Published: 01 November 2018
...David Featherstone This essay contributes to work on the contested racialized articulations of conjunctures by engaging with the spatial practices through which racialized in/securities became politicized in the period after the First World War. It explores the forms of opposition to riots against...
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Caribbean Voices and the Communicative Failure of the West Indies Federation
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 87–95.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Caribbean Voices literary radio program broadcast to the region between 1943 and 1958. During this fifteen-year period leading up to federation, Caribbean Voices broadcast West Indian literature, as well as critical commentary by the program’s longest serving editor, Henry Swanzy, that generally emphasized...
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Provision Grounds Against the Plantation: Robert Wedderburn’s Axe Laid to the Root
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Katey Castellano Robert Wedderburn’s London-based periodical, Axe Laid to the Root (1817), disseminates his vision for a transatlantic alliance between the radicals of England’s lower classes and the enslaved people in the West Indies. Throughout the Axe ’s six issues, he challenges...
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