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... space and offers them a methodology for destabilizing the world's (post)colonial orders. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 differential repetition petit pays small countries scalar theory postcolonial geography In the early 1990s, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Edouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris turned...

... people . . . But chaotic moments are often sites of regeneration.” Such an analysis—and the related relabeling of Martinique as an eco-island—form part of a wider project, linked in part to the advocacy of the potential of “petits pays” in Le discours antillais, as well as to the later ecological...

... space of the heartland (petit pays), in the ancestral way of life, or in the psychology of popular classes. For French regionalist writers, true Frenchness could be found only in old moral values and untarnished local traditions of the people of France. The emphasis on native traditions was so...

... collective work on the Haitian linguistic situation, he asks, Comment, par exemple, situer un élève des classes terminales d'un lycée public, né et vivant dans un quartier populaire de Port-au-Prince, dont les parents unilingues créolophones sont de très pauvres petits commerçants de manje kwuit et qui...

... I am older I’d pay young men to love me. I just didn’t know it would come so fast. I have no problem with it. Brenda, listen to me. You shouldn’t worry either. If you are too shy to pay them, just give them gifts. —Ellen, Heading South Ellen’s words in the scene “Sex and Love” define...

... of the word but misses the sense of movement, which Eschleman and Smith emphasize. 32 Césaire, Cahier / Notebook , 68; Césaire, Retorno al país natal , 250; Césaire, Cahier / Notebook , 69. 31 Césaire, Cahier / Notebook , 69. 30 Arnold, Modernism and Négritude , 134. 29...

... Aimé and colleague René Ménil, Europe was embroiled in World War II; for the first three years of the journal's life, Martinique was under control of the Vichy-appointed Admiral Robert. As a result, the cultural, existential, and political question posed in Aimé's 1939 Cahier d'un retour au pays natal...

... he allows the true creole to be portrayed as his opposite. Examples of these cruel and ironic portrayals of mulattoes are the selfish petit-bourgeois (a firefly lighting up only himself), the pervert who tortures Marie-Sophie in the center of Fort-de-France, the handsome athlete of the sports...

... mémoiree (site of memory).an Drawing from the revolutionary Haitian historiographies written by Madiou d Ardouin, the historical refl ections on Défi lée by Octave Petit, and the trenchant contemporary analyses of this heroine by Joan Dayan, I examine Défi lée as a national...

... pays. Lors de la réception d’un mariage dans une famille petite-bourgeoise, un médecin raconte l’histoire d’un cantonnier venu à l’hôpital dans ses plus beaux habits non pas pour se faire soigner, mais pour y mourir. Le cantonnier étant celui qui nettoie la ville, ses rues, ses routes, ses égouts et...

... événements survenus en Europe au milieu du XXe siècle. 19 « Et nous sommes debout maintenant, mon pays et moi, les cheveux dans le vent, ma petite main maintenant dans son poing énorme, et la force n’est pas en nous mais au-dessus de nous ». Aimé Césaire, Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (1939...

..., La dérive identitariste (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2016). Bernabé pays tribute to the “volonté d'unité” (“desire for unity”) represented by Tous Créoles! but warns of the ideological dangers of promoting an identity that might depend on an “un transfert métaphorique indu” (“unseemly metaphorical transfer...

..., the question was being hotly debated in the years preceding the publication of Ti dife boule . An early 1973 edition of the Haitian weekly Le Petit Samedi Soir was dominated by the theme that appeared on its title page, “Une langue pour le développement de la tolérance: Le Créole.” Among the articles...

... for, but, unfortunately, my emphasis on its impact and the “new” formations it enabled, comes at times at the cost of paying closer attention to historical continuities; there is however, rarely, if ever, something entirely “new.” Moreover, reading Ramírez's response helped me perceive more clearly one of my...

... applicable today—Boukman’s prayer, for example. What does it mean to a man who has never been to school? What is Dessalines to him? I am very interested in how people react to this history. How do the people who work in the Dominican Republic say “sa pale dè pasé nou, nou é petit Dessalines, nou sé...

..., in Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean , historian Peter James Hudson offers a detailed and damning account of the entanglements of the internationalization of US banking, imperialism, and (neo)colonialism in the epoch of US-led finance capitalism. He pays particular attention...

...Martin Munro Small Axe Incorporated 2005 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...

... of both grand and petit marronage. Grand marronage refers to permanent acts of flight and the formation of large-scale Maroon communities, while petit marronage refers to temporary acts of fugitivity for various reasons such as “to visit relatives, recover from injury, avoid being punished or sold...

... Emancipation. We are still Economic Slaves, burdened in paying rent to Landlords who are sucking out our vitalities.” 44 Both Otto and Hermina Huiswoud, in the pages of the Negro Worker , took up this petition’s framing of economic enslavement, which not only fed peasant and worker protest but also...

... to pay a form of compensation not to those who had done hard unpaid labor for several centuries but to their enslavers. The slave owners in Suriname were granted 300 guilders per enslaved person registered in their plantation records, though in the Dutch Caribbean islands the owners received a lesser...