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Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 7–23.
Published: 01 July 2011
... by its various discourses of homophobia. I suggest that the development of an interpretative practice that brings together queer theory, African diasporic studies, dancehall studies, and performance studies will enable the reading of those elements of dancehall that exceed or go against the grain...
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The Sway of Stigma: The Politics and Poetics of AIDS Representation in Le président a-t-il le SIDA? and Spirit of Haiti
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 62–79.
Published: 01 November 2011
...). Drawing on the insights of queer theory, the author argue that the hyperconsciousness of stigma in the Haitian context imposes limits on the imaginings of AIDS in cultural production; thus even as artists enter into their representation with overtly political intentions, they are unwittingly enmeshed...
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Dub Poetry as a Black Atlantic Body-Archive
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 65–83.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Phanuel Antwi Rereading dub poetry under the pressures of and with the resources of black feminist and queer theory, and treating the practice of dub poetry as a production of a sound archive, one that embodies and aurally animates the intimacies of the black Atlantic, this essay highlights...
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Embracing Our Animal Selves: The Liberatory Politics of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 159–166.
Published: 01 July 2023
... as a form of radical postcolonial thinking. [email protected] © 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 animal studies animality sodomy queer theory Guadeloupe Andil Gosine “We are animals. So what?” Andil Gosine boldly asks in his compelling new book, Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 201–204.
Published: 01 July 2023
... College. His areas of interest include comparative Caribbean literature and queer theory, and his research examines the evolution (and limits) of liberation in the writings of queer authors of Caribbean heritage. His scholarship, creative writing, and journalism have appeared in outlets...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 188–190.
Published: 01 November 2014
... at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include women of color feminism, Caribbean literature and performance, and queer theory. She is the author of Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (2010). ...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2018
... atraville is a postdoctoral fellow with the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College. She researches cultural formations and history, with a focus on black feminist and queer theory, race, class, and anticolonialism. Her new project theorizes black feminisms across the French Atlantic. She is also working...
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Reconstructing Manhood; or, The Drag of Black Masculinity
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 75–89.
Published: 01 March 2009
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hopeful future. Instead they must engage the throw-away populations of our time as if those
populations produced themselves out of thin air.
In other work I have suggested that Audre Lorde might be positioned as both an actual
and symbolic figure of a black queer theory...
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Come and Gone
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 186–204.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007). Love has recuperated “the strain of failure that runs through all modernism” for both modernist studies and the critical project of queer theory (56). See also Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 230–233.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Popular Culture.”
Rinaldo Walcott is an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and
the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. His teaching and
research are in the areas of black cultural studies, queer theory, gender studies...
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The Queer Politics of Crossing in Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 114–124.
Published: 01 March 2014
... gestures toward other ways or modes of affiliation: it represents a desire for an “Elsewhere,” for cross-racial, cross-national, cross-gender, or cross-sexual identifications or moments of solidarity. Condé's novel anticipates queer diaspora theory inaugurated by scholars such as David Eng, among others...
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Dancing in an Enclosure: Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
... as decolonial practices by dislocating the socially prescribed binding between performance and affect. Using the theories of Saidiya Hartman, José Esteban Muñoz, and Juana María Rodríguez, and connecting to the work of Rocío Zambrana on strategies that address the island’s colonial legacy, the essay explores...
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Blood and Noise: Carolyn Cooper and the Politics of Betrayal
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 63–72.
Published: 01 July 2024
... with the emergence of postfeminism as anything generated by a stridently masculinist American popular culture at the time. The 1990s were also when queer theory began to become formally established. The term began to be academically legitimized with the first queer theory conference happening in 1990. Judith...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 208–210.
Published: 01 July 2020
... formation, performance studies and visual culture, and queer theory and intersectional feminism in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. She is a former Thomas J. Watson Fellow and is currently completing a book manuscript, Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Racial Formation in the Americas...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 260–265.
Published: 01 March 2017
... aldez teaches at Christopher Newport University, Virginia. Her research interests include US Latino/a literature, Hispanic Caribbean literature, the twentieth-to-twenty-first-century Latin American novel, gender studies, and queer theory. Within Latino/a and Caribbean studies, her principal interests...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 209–212.
Published: 01 July 2011
... in formulations of a black diaspora, particularly in relation to Caribbean independence
movements. She teaches courses on black literature, postcolonial studies, and queer theory.
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Cheryl Finley is acting director of the Visual Studies Program and assistant professor...
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“Ziggy, sé an makoumè ”: Queering Otherness and Disturbing Identities
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 156–166.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Glissant: Resistance and opacité,” Romance Studies 24, no. 2 (2006): 105–15. 14 Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), 17. 15 For a study examining this word as a homophobic slur connected to the colonial past, see Nadia...
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“Da pa' lo' do' ”: Rita Indiana's Queer, Racialized Dominicanness
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
... connection with José ultimately extends beyond our shared Caribbeanness. He was a mentor to me, and his writing on the ways queer minoritarian subjects navigate an often stultifying, and oppressive, majoritarian sphere influences my own critical writing. Through his theory of disidentification, I am able...
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I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of Faith
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that called queerness as a classic norm- (or limit-) contesting posture into being as a theory. This broadly conceived spatial, temporal, and conceptual queerness of Spiritual Baptism opens a more respectful path by which to approach LGBT practitioners who manifest queerness in the faith. These queer...
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Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 147–162.
Published: 01 July 2020
... Agrelo, “We Could Do Things.” 56 See Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). 57 Judith [Jack] Halbertsam, The Queer Art of Failure (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). 58 José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia...
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