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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 February 2008
... , and the selected lyrics of dancehall artistes such as Damian Marley and Super Cat, which are read in terms of Giorgio Agamben's concepts of homo sacer , the state of exception, and the biopolitical paradigm of the camp. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Notes on the Age of Dis:
Reading Kingston through Agamben...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 148–160.
Published: 01 November 2009
... as two case studies, I show the ways that these authors 1 disagreements over Aristide 1 s relationship to violence and popular struggle are inseparable from the methods and categories that each applies to his subject. Small Axe, Inc. 2009 Violence and Methodology:
Reading Aristide...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2022
... as well. This essay explores how reading Capetillo invites one to listen to her like the workers at the tobacco factories where she was a lectora would. It focuses on Capetillo’s first essays—published in Ensayos libertarios (1907) and La humanidad en el futuro (1910)—in which she conveys an urgency...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 177–193.
Published: 01 November 2023
...D. Alissa Trotz; Nigel Westmaas This essay offers a modest attempt to read Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) alongside the political tragedy that was unfolding in 1960s Guyana, which Rodney was thinking and writing about before and during his Dar es Salaam years. The authors...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... the present came into being and what the trends are for the near future.” 8 This might initially be read as a banal declaration that history engaged with a political purpose. But as the argument unfolds in the initial chapter on “Development,” it becomes clear that Rodney is aiming at something more...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the devastating anonymity and poverty that plagued the poet throughout her life and that ultimately branded her body in its final moments. It is thus an apt opening from which to launch a questioning of the many ways Burgos's influence has been elided, a task that Pérez-Rosario deftly tackles. As I read Pérez...
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Créolité and the Regime of Visibility: Reading Les neuf consciences du Malfini by Patrick Chamoiseau
Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 115–125.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of writing, the analysis starts by examining what the author calls the regime of visibility and its ontological implications in the 1989 manifesto Éloge de la créolité . This then serves as a basis for a close reading of Patrick Chamoiseau’s 2009 novel Les neuf consciences du Malfini , narrated from...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 105–114.
Published: 01 November 2018
... practices that shaped the texture of freedom. An engagement with travel narratives, specifically attentive to reading against the grain of elite mobilities, is proposed as a means through which to reveal the everyday negotiation of livelihoods. Offering the market as a case study, the essay argues...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 62–76.
Published: 01 March 2019
... for new audiences and toward new meanings? Here I should also reveal my opinion that my object texts—and popular fiction more generally—deserve more critical respect than they get; I find them not only instructive but to varying degrees complex, clever, and fun to read. In what follows, therefore, I am...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 151–164.
Published: 01 October 2008
... 2, the slave trade; act 3, the slave uprising that created Haiti; and act 4, the “endless migration” of post-occupation diaspora that continues into the present as an unfinished environmental and social revolution. ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 On Reading Continental...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 90–102.
Published: 01 November 2012
... does not designate “feeling” so much as a visceral response that cuts across thought and feeling, mind and body, spirit and matter, the physical and intuitive senses. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 When Spirits Talk: Reading
Erna Brodber’s Louisiana for Affect
Jenny Sharpe
Slavery...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 42–55.
Published: 01 July 2010
... (1989), Sharktale (2004), and Transporter 2 (2005), which are analyzed to explore the links between narrative, power, and representation and read beyond the cinematic text, exploring the shadows, the unspoken, the unvisualized, the unwritten elements of the films. The article explores the representation...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 5–19.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., in true Rousseauian fashion, the sciences and commerce for wreaking death and slavery upon the New World and for stocking vessels with “Negroes to fertilize American soil,” d'Escherny's appended note, this time, reads, One should not conclude from this passage, written in 1789, that the author shared...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 144–160.
Published: 01 July 2018
.... Is it even possible to read the history of anything in a photograph? Disregarding the context and captions, photographs reveal quite little beyond what the eye sees, and what the eye sees relies on the viewer’s subjective position in time and space. With all this in mind, I base my interpretations...
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in Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 1 Graffiti reading, “El desastre es la colonia” (“The disaster is the colony”), on a light meter six months after Hurricane Maria, 9 March 2018. Photograph by Lorie Shaull. Published with Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 2.0, www.flickr.com/photos/number7cloud/25836790197/in/album
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in Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 2 Sign reading, “#MaríaNoFue” (“#ThisWasNotMaría”), on debris in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 29 April 2019. Photograph by Patricia Noboa.
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Régine Jean-Charles’s Black Feminist Ethical Reading of Twenty-First-Century Haitian Women’s Fiction
Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2024
... translated into English and other languages. Several of the same books appear more than once in different chapters. And to deepen her analysis of the contemporary and the everyday, Jean-Charles connects her readings of the novels to other social movements, art forms, and current debates, including various...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 17–34.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Simona Bertacco This essay weaves together translation and postcolonial literary studies to propose a translational model of reading for Caribbean literature. Translation and creolization provide the conceptual and aesthetic lens for reading Caribbean literary texts: If translation is an apt model...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 7–23.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Nadia Ellis This article provides a set of readings toward what I am calling a “queer performance hermeneutic” of dancehall culture. It argues that although dancehall appears to be rigidly heteronormative, there are modes of queer performance within its culture, modes that may even be enabled...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203–208.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jossianna Arroyo This review essay focuses on a critical reading of Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon with the aim to shed light on these following questions: How can we read the writing of community in the work of Julia de Burgos? And to what...
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