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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Katherine McKittrick This essay explores plantation geographies. In drawing specific attention to the ways past configurations of the plantation are recast in post-slave urban contexts, the discussion signals the links between black dispossession and geography, while also considering how assertions...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... grounds as a land commons that produce food sovereignty and communal identity. Then he represents the Jamaican Maroons’ local ecological knowledge as a source of resistance to plantation economies. Using Sylvia Wynter’s environmental theories of resistance, this essay argues that Wedderburn’s political...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 23–42.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Curdella Forbes Curdella Forbes deploys a complex of historically marked territorial metaphors— plot, plantation, squatting, trespass , and transgression —to read two apparently different texts, Maryse Condé's quasi-tragic 1976 novel Heremakhonon , which is set on the African continent...
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Published: 01 July 2021
Figure 2 Figure 2: 1777 plantation journal page, with sugarcane leaves.
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Published: 01 July 2021
Figures 3 and 4 Figures 3 and 4: Wild plants on plantation ruin, Dominica– left , “Merrigold” (Wedelia trilobata), and right , Sensitive Plant (Mimosa pudica); local name, Meze Mawi.
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 116–126.
Published: 01 November 2021
... here on how to theorize and put into play the geography of the region as a central concern of its world (re)making project. Freedom demands something more than the enunciation of the word. In Brathwaite’s “list” or itinerary of the inner plantation, he points us to a set of research questions...
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 5 A. Duperly and Sons, At Rest, Banana Plantation , ca. 1898. Silver gelatin print. Collection of the Onyx Foundation
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 10 Cocoanut Plantation, Jamaica , a stereograph by Carleton H. Graves, 1899. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 79–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., the essay argues that plantation activities were rebellious and inventive spaces that enunciate “the revolutionary demand for happiness.” This demand for happiness draws attention to how musical beats and grooves are rebellious enthusiasms that recode ongoing plantation logics and, as well, open up a new...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2018
... brutal plantation oversight, which included serial rapes of enslaved women. Taking a necessarily integrative approach, this essay analyzes Thistlewood’s diaries in conjunction with his reading notes, identifying the literary-scientific valences of his perpetration and documentation of rape. It argues...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Judith Rodríguez This review essay of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) illustrates Zambrana’s own intervention into “race/gender/class” hierarchies as carrying their own relations of power within her rewriting of the “plantation complex,” using the colony of Puerto...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 2008
... as modes of thought. It also argues that if Caribbean thought gets knotted up in the trope of Caliban, it will not decolonize itself and begin to wrestle with what Kamau Brathwaite has called the “inner plantation.” Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Writing Caribbean Intellectual History
Anthony Bogues...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 37–50.
Published: 01 November 2009
... inescapable enmeshment of blackness and whiteness within the Plantation walls. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 “We are all related”: Edouard
Glissant Meets Octavia Butler
Valérie Loichot
Mita kuye oyasin . . . we are all related.
—Edouard Glissant, Faulkner, Mississippi
So many relatives that I had...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 220–232.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Maeve McCusker Békés (white Creoles) are the descendants of the original plantation owners in the Antilles. They remain economically dominant in the islands, forming a privileged and self-segregating minority. They are, perhaps surprisingly, invoked by Raphaël Confiant as fundamental to both Éloge...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 80–94.
Published: 01 July 2014
... of this regional context, as demonstrated by popular unrest in the 1850s and 1860s. In the absence of plantation records or other prolific documentation, scholarship has often rested on the testimony of foreign observers; these sources demand further critical attention. Creative research that pointedly seeks out...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
... is itself a transformation group that shares many invariant features that “repeat” in the Caribbean. One such feature is the presence in the Caribbean of epic cultural “machines of a certain kind” that work to “defuse the violence” created by the plantation machines. This essay articulates the necessity...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 47–55.
Published: 01 November 2018
... of survival. It discusses Maroon insecurity as a feeling forged in the unsettled intimacies of colonial relations. This feeling, in several ways, structured relations between Maroons and plantations and impacted the organization of daily life across both frontiers as well as the deployment of a range...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 104–118.
Published: 01 November 2019
... literature, postcolonial literature, and Caribbean studies, situating these shifts and movements within and against the backdrop of histories of decolonization. Birbalsingh’s early years in a plantation colony become prologue to his experience of education as a pathway to migration (a brain drain that still...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to narrate the violence of the British empire through family stories. The long-intertwined histories of England and the Caribbean inevitably lead to slavery’s archives, and in the final section of the book, Carby describes the lives of her earliest ancestors on a Jamaican coffee plantation. In response...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
... on Wynter's sustained engagement with racial subjection and/as the morphological production of blackness, the essay argues that the “underlife” Wynter traces from the provision grounds of the colonial plantation to the black urban ghettos in the United States effectively displaces her future critique...
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