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Published: 01 July 2017
Wendy Nanan, A work-in-progress , 2016. Photographs; personal collection
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Maroon , Fiiman , Busikondeesama : A Play on Identity in Three Speech Acts
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 136–145.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Corinna Campbell; Tolin Alexander This essay features discussions with and among Suriname Maroons engaged in cultural work about the names they choose in self-reference. Maroon is just one choice of many; others include Fiiman (free person) and Busikondeesama (hinterland person). Each name...
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The Coloniality of Power and the Limits of Dissent in Jamaica
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 98–110.
Published: 01 November 2017
... power, antiblack racism, and perceived accommodation to the island's dependency on the economic, cultural, and political institutions of the world system. A myriad of dissident organizations, personalities, and social forces challenged this dependency and rejected the unapologetic “coloniality of power...
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Rediscovering Julia de Burgos: The People's Rebel Soul Poet
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
... meticulous and insightful analysis that invite elaboration, it is an unpretentious effort to offer an intellectual and personal island and stateside Puerto Rican perspective that further contextualizes the ongoing reencuentro (reengagement) with the now-indisputable iconic poet, as well as the author's own...
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Rituals of Belief, Practices of Law
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 193–199.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Colin Dayan This essay brings law more fully into the rituals of terror, the fictions of slavery that Brown portrays so powerfully in * The Reaper's Garden. * In tracking the ghost-ridden traces of persons and property, I consider how palpable and visible remain the deposits of slave history, how...
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Maryse Condé: Practitioner of Littérature-monde
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 78–88.
Published: 01 November 2010
.... Through an examination of these three books, this paper will explore Condé's personal and literary trajectory as a practitioner of littérature-monde . Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Maryse Condé: Practitioner
of Littérature-monde
Bonnie Thomas
Renowned Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé has been...
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“Always Changing, while Still Remaining”: A Tribute to Edouard Glissant
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 108–114.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Celia Britton In this personal tribute to Glissant Britton describes some of the most resonant themes of his novels (the idea of changing while still remaining, the significance of place, and his exploration of madness) and the “opaque” poetic characteristics of his style, which extend from...
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Sewing Up Questions of Cultural Identity: Lorna Goodison's From Harvey River
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.
Published: 01 July 2010
... stitched together the complex cultural legacy of “making life” in a transformational and generative struggle for social betterment that is at once personal, familial and collective. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Sewing Up Questions of
Cultural Identity: Lorna Goodison’s
From Harvey River
Sandra Pouchet...
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New Points of Recognition: Stuart Hall's Gift to the Study of Blackness
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 88–99.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Michelle Stephens This tribute assesses the importance of Stuart Hall's work both personally, for the author, and in relation to a broader scholarly conversation about blackness that shapes the latter half of the twentieth century and spans the United States, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom...
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Una Marson at the BBC
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 1–28.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of Delia Jarrett-Macauley's authoritative biography of Marson in 1998, the essay has two primary aims. First, to recover in greater detail and in more holistic terms than has previously been possible the personal story of Marson's professional relationships at the corporation. Second, to pursue what...
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José E. Muñoz's Critical Caribbean Crossroads
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 78–84.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Maja Horn This essay is a personal reflection on how Horn's scholarship on gender, sexuality, and performance in the hispanophone Caribbean has been shaped by the oeuvre of the late critical theorist José E. Muñoz. In particular, Horn compares and contrasts the uses of “hybridity” and “performance...
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Bleeding, Wailing, and Hypnosis: The Words and Images of Caroline “booops” Sardine
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 16–34.
Published: 01 November 2013
... “booops” Sardine, for whom social violence, in the form of racial, class, and gender stereotyping, as well as a personal experience of physical violence and its attendant trauma, provide the substance of her work. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 Though born into the tiny white minority of St...
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Disciplining the Unruly (National) Body in Staceyann Chin's The Other Side of Paradise
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
...” LGBT individuals present to the nation. Chin's identity as a woman of Chinese and African descent calls into question a unitary identity or origin story for Caribbean subjects and asks which bodies are allowed to be legitimate citizens of the postindependence Caribbean. Chin's personal experiences...
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After Empire: Training Lawyers as a Postcolonial Enterprise
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 38–56.
Published: 01 February 2008
...,” a process that names new categories of persons but also subjects them to an articulation of disciplinary powers not of their own making. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 After Empire:
Training Lawyers as a
Postcolonial Enterprise
Mindie Lazarus-Black
Ab s t r a c t : The early...
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Fugitive Sounds
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 155–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Alejandra Bronfman This short essay is a response to Alexandra T. Vazquez's Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Duke, 2013). It aims to recreate the experience of reading the book and the transformation in listening that the book prompted. Written in both personal and academic...
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Beyond the Great Camouflage: Haiti in Suzanne Césaire's Politics and Poetics of Liberation
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
Published: 01 July 2016
.... A close reading of her essays alongside previously uncited personal correspondence reveals Haiti to be central to her vision for a Caribbean cultural renaissance after the death and destruction of the war. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Martinique Caribbean poetics World War II Negritude surrealism...
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The Hispanic Caribbean Question: On Geographies of Knowledge and Interlaced Human Landscapes
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2016
... transnationalism to explain the Antillean person's mobility across polities; and conflating the tellurian geography of the region with the diasporic locales of Caribbean-descended citizens of Western metropolises. The essay advises the humble recognition of the Caribbean as a not easily learned culture area, one...
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Interdependence and Intertextuality in Lyonel Trouillot's Bicentenaire
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 42–52.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Martin Munro Evoking the persistence of themes of revenge and animosity in Haitian literature, this article considers how Lyonel Trouillot radically reconceptualizes them, and considers how his work is pushing toward a more complex understanding of personal and collective identity and destiny...
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Germaine, Evangeline, and Other “Negro Girls”: Rudy Burckhardt's Caribbean
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2012
... to as a representational field of evasive presences wherein content, depth, and the messy, material questions of politics are pushed beyond the edge of the image but, as his personal history and the history of the North American encounters with the Caribbean suggest, are never far away. © Small Axe, Inc. 2012...
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Blackout: Kingston 12, Jamaica
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 243–254.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Marlon James Instead of dismissing skin bleaching, this photographic project's intention is to understand both the practice and the means by which a person would attempt to ascertain some kind of beauty where many saw none. Some proclaimed it was merely a fad; others felt it elevated...
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