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Simarrona : Beyond Etymologies toward a Practice of Unlearning
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
..., as the rebel slaves had come to be called ” or “the escaped slaves who had come to be known as Maroons.” There is caution, reservation, skepticism. The act or practice preceded the term or this particular set of terminology, even if some of “the Maroons” of the camps came to adopt the name with pride. 7...
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Genres of History and the Practice of Loss: Attending to Silence in Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 167–174.
Published: 01 March 2021
... it is prohibited.” 7 Mourning is a part of the “wake work” necessary to counter the power of representing vulnerable black lives and an exercise to envision a different future. 8 Jennifer Nash “beautifully” describes the “ethical and political practice” of black feminist theory’s “preoccupation...
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Disarticulating Black Internationalisms: West Indian Radicals and The Practice of Diaspora
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 100–111.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Michelle Stephens Small Axe Incorporated 2005 BOOK DISCUSSION: THE PRACTICE OF DIASPORA
Th e Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, Brent
Hayes Edwards. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-674-01103-1
Disarticulating...
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Translation, Political Community, and Black Internationalism: Some Comments on Brent Hayes Edwards's The Practice of Diaspora
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 112–119.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Michael Hanchard Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Translation, Political Community, and Black
Internationalism: Some Comments on Brent
Hayes Edwards’s The Practice of Diaspora
Michael Hanchard
rent Edwards’s Th e Practice of Diaspora is an important text, expanding and com...
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Erasures and the Practice of Diaspora Feminism
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 129–133.
Published: 01 March 2005
...T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting Small Axe Incorporated 2005 Erasures and the
Practice of Diaspora Feminism
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
hat would it mean though to stake out a ‘silenced’ genealogy of Négritude
through the transnational intellectual circuits of African...
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ART as Caribbean Feminist Practice: A Portfolio
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 151–162.
Published: 01 March 2017
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Reading Rousseau in the Colonies: Theory, Practice, and the Question of Slavery
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 5–19.
Published: 01 March 2015
... as antithetical to practices of black enslavement. Abolitionists such as Condorcet, Brissot, and Grégoire may have considered themselves the inheritors of the Age of Reason. In the eyes of slave apologists, however, they were radicals who were trying to put into practice the impracticable, subversive thinkers who...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 34–42.
Published: 01 March 2017
... intertextual formal art practices. It aims to mark the archive of Caribbean art history through its focus on the remarkable contributions of women from the Dutch-, English-, Spanish-, French-, and Creole-speaking Caribbean to the making of this history as well as the ongoing cultivation of arts practice...
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Theory versus Practice: On the Postcolonial Marginalization of Haitian Literature
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., particularly in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 Theory versus Practice: On
the Postcolonial Marginalization
of Haitian Literature
Rachel Douglas
Kaiama L. Glover’s Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon poses
fundamental questions...
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Caribbean Studies as Practice: Insights from Border-Crossing Histories and Research
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 74–87.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Jorge L. Giovannetti This essay advances the definition of Caribbean studies as a practice . Rather than understanding this field of study as a preconceived category open for arbitrary self-appointment, a Caribbeanist practice should be something “which in fact happens (and can be shown to have...
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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
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In The Reaper’s Garden, Vincent Brown presents a history of slavery in colonial Jamaica that
is also an inquiry into ritual practice and punishment in a transatlantic perspective. To effect
what he calls “a materialist history of the supernatural imagination” is no mean feat.1 He is
able to make matter out...
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From Loíza to Yauco’s Mountainous Area: Two Instances of Fugitive Food Practices in Puerto Rico
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 34–48.
Published: 01 July 2024
... on Hernández’s use of the space, her way of speaking, and her way of following a recipe, that this is where sabor resides. By reclaiming life in Yauco’s mountainous area and sharing her ongoing practice of the space through cooking, Hernández shows that sabor is a fugitive practice. Its unnamability is precisely...
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Archive as Offering: Haiti and Historical Possibility
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 1–13.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., this essay ultimately considers experimental historical practices as an opportunity to intervene in the presumed teleology of Black women’s lives through the practice of archival offering. In this context, the accident scene sketch resonates harm. It shows not only the violence of the collision articulated...
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Rhizomes and the Space of Translation: On Edouard Glissant's Spiral Retelling
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 100–112.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Max Hantel “The intellectual journey,” Edouard Glissant reminds us, “is destined to have a geographical itinerary.” This essay considers Glissant's insistence on a poetics of landscape in the case of translation, a practice that intertwines linguistic transition with the spatial residue of its...
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Ordinary Ethics of Spiritual Work and Healing in St. Lucia, or Why Not to Use the Term Obeah
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 17–32.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of healers and spiritual workers. Because, in most cases, the term is not used by practitioners to identify their spiritual and healing practice, the author proposes to relocate the definition of obeah from its specific practices to its moral burden. This approach helps reevaluate the use of obeah in social...
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The Fact of Blackness? The Bleached Body in Contemporary Jamaica
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Winnifred Brown-Glaude This essay examines public discussions around skin bleaching in Jamaica and demonstrates that a discourse of pathology is a dominant frame of meaning used to explain this practice. I argue that the practice of bleaching destabilizes popular conceptions of blackness that rely...
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Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
... version in Caribbean Discourse ; Édouard Glissant, “Natural Poetics, Forced Poetics,” Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays , trans. J. Michael Dash (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1989), 120–34. 14 Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley: University...
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The Minister of Mercy Is a Homegirl
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 144–152.
Published: 01 November 2022
... the memoir as a genre both elaborates and dulls trauma. Rather than emphasize and celebrate the exceptional quality of Black women political figures and their careers, the essay points to a close reading practice that more seriously considers Black womanhood and empire. [email protected] BOOK...
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How Do You Translate Compaña ?
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 133–143.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Rican poetry—has provided the author with insight about the colonial conditions that structure translation as word-making practice, survival strategy, and decolonial methodology. In collaborating with Puerto Rican writers, translators, investigators, and scholars and sustaining a dialogue with a long...
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Everything Slackens in a Wreck
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Sinnapah Mary (Guadeloupe). Each of the four women is a descendant of indentured workers who traveled to the Caribbean in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and for each this history is a reference point in her practice. Gosine proposes a consideration of the Americas as a consequence...
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