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Intellectuals and Social Change: Brian Meeks and Transitions in Caribbean Political Thought
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Obika Gray It is now commonplace to lament the enervation of social thought and the passing of an important social figure—the critical, classical humanistic intellectual as a major actor in contemporary society. This elegy for polymath political leaders and for the presumed demise of theoretically...
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From “Cockfight” to Polyrhythm: Writing Difference on the Island of Hispaniola
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., culture, and exchange within and beyond the two nations, providing opportunity to think about how Hispaniola is being (re)conceptualized and the political-intellectual labor that it performs. 2 See Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflection of the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London...
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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
... in winning the majority of Jamaicans to their cause. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 coloniality of power political intellectuals Rastafarians decolonization politics In reckoning with the Jamaican 1960s and assessing why they mattered, it should be said the period was a major turning point...
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Other Radicals: Anton de Kom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 52–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and the former Netherlands Antilles within broader Carib-bean networks of political and intellectual exchange, while also analyzing their local/national specificity and their shifting relations to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. We had hoped to identify the specific anticolonial and postcolonial critiques...
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Thy Neighbor’s Slave Society: Rethinking Comparison in the History of Caribbean Slavery
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 208–219.
Published: 01 March 2019
... example and also give attention to the ways slaveholders and proslavery governments viewed the prospect of similar rebellions as a threat. Intellectual and political histories have explored the intermingling of ideas from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution with the words and actions of enslaved...
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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
...Natasha I. Shivji This essay explores the discourse produced in Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) as part of an intellectual genealogy at the University of Dar es Salaam and Rodney’s involvement in a political landscape that was global in nature. The author proposes...
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When Is Poetry Political? Césaire on the Role of Knowledge in 1944
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Yohann C. Ripert This essay investigates a moment for Caribbean knowledge production in which intellectuals, gathered in Haiti in 1944 for an International Congress of Philosophy, questioned whether to politicize knowledge or to seclude it from politics. Focusing on Aimé Césaire’s “Poetry...
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Late Glissant: History, “World Literature,” and the Persistence of the Political
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 121–134.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Charles Forsdick The article explores Edouard Glissant's literary, intellectual and political activity over the past decade in the light of Edward W. Said's concept of `late style'. There is no intention to present the Martiniquan writer and intellectual as an exemplum of Said's categorization...
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Revisiting the Past and Roberto Fernández Retamar's Calibán
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 123–137.
Published: 01 November 2016
... content more accessible to the masses. Latin American intellectuals had two choices: either adhere to the course charted by the Revolution or support political actions that tolerated dissention. The divisiveness among intellectuals that led to the birth of the post-Boom also diverted attention away from...
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History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., the author first discusses Rodney’s engagements with the University of California, Los Angeles, as part of a longer history of Black intellectual and political activism and the geographies of Black radicalism on campus. The author then explores the question of methodology in Rodney’s book, especially...
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On the Impossibility of All Possibility in Caribbean Theory
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 June 2008
... that it opens.
Torres-Saillant is to be commended for his boldness and bravery as he sets out to slay the
dragon of “theoretical” unintelligibility, academic political disengagement, and intellectual
simulacra. His position is anchored to the clear realization of knowing himself to come from
a world...
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“That Area of Experience That We Term the New World”: Introducing Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis”
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the Caribbean plantation experience, and concludes with lengthy meditations on the possibility of social transformation in the United States, with little of the major political conundrums faced by 1970s black intellectuals untouched in between. The relationship between the text and Wynter's publications over...
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Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
Published: 01 July 2021
... thought and criticism, instrumental to the thought of African diaspora intellectuals” from Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to Alejo Carpentier, James, and Wynter. They argue that “every historical-cultural movement and political conundrum in the wider region since [the Haitian Revolution...
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Before and beyond Masculinity after Trujillo : A Critical Return
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 199–205.
Published: 01 November 2016
... entrenched relations between gender, postdictatorship politics, and the Dominican intellectual culture call for conventional political responses as well as an embrace of political potentialities that lie beyond these. The essay emphasizes that postcolonial contexts invariably require grappling with questions...
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Reprising the Past, Imagining the Future
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 187–198.
Published: 01 July 2016
... politics and society. Obika Gray and Maziki Thame contributed review essays, tackling many of the issues explored in the book, including the Caribbean black power movement, the Grenada Revolution and its demise, the contemporary state of Jamaican politics, Caribbean intellectual traditions...
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Displacing Wij slaven van Suriname : Other Collateral Effects
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 67–77.
Published: 01 March 2023
... that De Kom’s narrative tackles in unique ways—and on the question of time. The author attempts to displace De Kom’s book away from its entanglement of political and intellectual connections and toward the diverse temporalities of Suriname’s decolonial struggles, seeking to explore what could be called...
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Ordinary Sovereignty
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 152–165.
Published: 01 November 2013
... spaces that trouble the Westphalian order are cast as exceptions, and, following Trouillot's lead, it attempts to discern the political and intellectual perils of this casting. Echoing Trouillot, the essay calls for us to reimagine Caribbean social and political processes as ordinary—that is, to place...
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Con-Federating the Archipelago: Introduction
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 37–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel; Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann This essay introduces the special section “Con-Federating the Archipelago: The Confederación Antillana and the West Indies Federation,” which interrogates the literary, intellectual, social, and political imaginaries fomented...
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Abduction and the Grounds of Caribbean Reasoning
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Raj Chetty This review essay engages with Aaron Kamugisha’s 2019 Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition by focusing on its methodological commitment to seeking Caribbean answers to Caribbean political and social problems. The author argues that Kamugisha...
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Eulogizing Creoleness? Éloge de la créolité and Caribbean Identity, Culture, and Politics
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and beyond. The essays here fall broadly into four categories—intellectual contexts, politics, literature, and ethnography. This introduction asks, does the concept of créolité have a future in the current situation of Antillean writing, which has lost much of its momentum, especially in relation to writing...
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