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“A Question to Be Lived”: Creoleness and Ethnographic Fiction
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2018
... involves reckoning literarily with lived experience, and in the Éloge they approach creoleness as “ a question to be lived ” and not definitively resolved (89). The créolistes write this ethnographic impulse into the literary genealogy of their movement, opening up a teleological perspective that reads...
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Subject to Question: Empire and Catherine Hall's Civilising Subjects
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Madhavi Kale Small Axe Incorporated 2003 BOOK DISCUSSION: CIVILISING SUBJECTS
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867, Catherine Hall.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-31334-4
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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
...Fayçal Falaky This essay engages the broad question of the relation between the French Enlightenment and colonial racial slavery by exploring the literature of planters and slavetraders in the French Caribbean and showing how the ideals of French Enlightenment philosophy were not always framed...
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From Mode of Production to Mode of Auto-Institution: Sylvia Wynter's Black Metamorphosis of the Labor Question
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Demetrius L. Eudell This essay illustrates how Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” reconceptualizes the question of labor as it relates to the history of blacks in the Americas and generally to the being of Being Human. It does so by situating Wynter's distinctive intervention within the context...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2016
... with the journal's editor, David Scott, in spring 2011. At that time, the journal was making an effort to integrate the francophone Caribbean into what had until recently been a primarily anglophone publication. As members of the editorial team sat around the table and discussed questions of translation, language...
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The Hispanic Caribbean Question: On Geographies of Knowledge and Interlaced Human Landscapes
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2016
... hopes of transcending the lure of paradigms inherited from the colonial past concerning how we see the region and imagine its future possibilities. Of the numerous questions formulated by Pérez-Rosario in the stimulating prompt whereby she aimed to spur this conversation, two in particular will orient...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 1–7.
Published: 01 July 2013
...David Scott This essay urges that in considering the question of Caribbean studies we think not only about the substantive content of our work but also about the senses in which this work makes assumptions about the idea and project of Caribbean studies as a conceptual-ideological field. The essay...
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Sewing Up Questions of Cultural Identity: Lorna Goodison's From Harvey River
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 168–178.
Published: 01 July 2010
... stitched together the complex cultural legacy of “making life” in a transformational and generative struggle for social betterment that is at once personal, familial and collective. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Sewing Up Questions of
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The Questions Kamau Asked of Us
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 145–164.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Elaine Savory Kamau Brathwaite left us just before COVID-19 changed our world. This memoriam essay explores the questions his work poses in his role as mentor/teacher/Griot to other writers, toward whom he was always very generous and encouraging. He asks us to embrace uncertainty, making...
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Mushrooms and Mischief: On Questions of Blackness
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 152–163.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the cultural capital of lighter skin while the other had the hard-earned cultural capital of formal education. Both families had warned my mother and father of the social decline that would result from their marriage. These details return me to the questions that continue to structure much of my research...
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Identity and Change in the Work of Édouard Glissant
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 169–179.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., identity is formed through contacts with others within the nexus of Relation and créolisation , whereas in his 2006 Une nouvelle région du monde , it is largely a question of the relationship between human beings and place. In this essay, Glissant's ideas are compared with those of the theorists...
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The Theory of Haiti: The Black Jacobins and the Poetics of Universal History
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
...David Scott This essay inquires into the uses of Haiti and its revolution as emblematic for contemporary theory. It raises a question about the new “philosophic” construction of Haiti—and its revolution—as an originary or exemplary moment of “human rights,” less to impugn universality as such than...
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Fugitive Sounds
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 155–163.
Published: 01 March 2016
... registers, the essay begins with the author's analytic and affective responses to the book, before posing some questions it raises. Specifically, it asks for further explorations of our understanding of the publics generated by performances of Cuban music, in particular publics that might be critical...
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Freedom, Sovereignty, and Other Entanglements
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 201–208.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Yarimar Bonilla Anthropologist Yarimar Bonilla responds to Greg Beckett and Christienna D. Fryar's engagements with her Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015). In responding to the questions raised, Bonilla lays out the conceptual and methodological...
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The Continental Conversations of Edouard Duval Carrié
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 142–150.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Jerry Philogene This essay questions the tensions between the problems of writing about Haitian art and the problem with writing about Haitian art. Within this framework it questions the recurring emphasis of Vodou, specifically considering essays from the catalogue Continental Shifts , which...
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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
...Rachel Douglas This review engages with fundamental questions regarding postcolonial canon formation and the marginalization of the Haitian Spiralist writers, the theory-centrism of postcolonial criticism, and “showing” versus “telling”—issues raised by Kaiama L. Glover's Haiti Unbound . Using...
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All Friends Now? Critical Conversations, West Indian Literature, and the “Quarrel with History”
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2012
... publication of Baugh's article and its republication, the questions of historical invisibility have entered newly disputed territories that demand attention to how gender, indigeneity, spirituality, and sexuality shape ideas of historical and literary legitimacy, in addition to those foundational questions...
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White Mythologies
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Ren Ellis Neyra This response essay engages the three book discussion essays by Ronald Mendoza–de Jesús, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, and Rocío Zambrana on The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics (2020). Following questions of anti-Blackness in Spanish Caribbean (especially...
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A Multispecies Caribbean: The Aesthetics of Ecological Reinvention in Art by Dhara Rivera
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Charlotte Rogers In an era of deepening social and ecological calamity, artists from Puerto Rico currently address perennial questions of catastrophe in ways that foreground the island archipelago’s multispecies relationships: the dynamic assemblages of human and more-than-human organisms...
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Introduction: Public Secrets and the Archives of Black Internationalism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 83–86.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in the Dutch Caribbean. This special section aligns with the author’s ongoing interest in Black anticolonial intellectual traditions of the Caribbean—in a project called Other Radicals—and the role of figures from the Dutch Caribbean in this project. More than an interest in the question of power...
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