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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 61–83.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Michelle Joan Wilkinson Small Axe Incorporated 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Small Axe 16, September 2004: pp. 61 83 ISSN 0799-0537 Haciendo Patria: The Puerto Rican Flag in the Art of Juan...
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Doing Comparative Caribbean (Gender) History: Puerto Rican and Belizean Working-Class Women, 1830s–1930s
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 72–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Anne S. Macpherson This essay makes a case for comparative Caribbean historiography rooted in research that crosses linguistic, national, and imperial lines, through a discussion of Puerto Rican and Belizean working women from abolition to the 1930s. In illustrating the commensurability...
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Literatura Nullius : The Untranslatability of Eduardo Lalo and the Multirelation of the Puerto Rican Intellectual
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 64–77.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in the writing of Edouard Glissant, among others, the author suggests that Lalo's work deploys untranslatability as a means of affirming the literary and political identity of Puerto Rican writers' against the classificatory schema of world literary space and the canon. Eduardo Lalo Puerto Rican literature...
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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
...Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé An examination of the significance of dance performances in the demonstrations of the Puerto Rican summer of 2019, this essay argues that these performances belong to a history of irreverent, extravagant mourning gestures that periodically irrupt in Puerto Rican culture...
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Seeing the World through a Puerto Rican Lens: Decolonial Critique in Boricua Beats
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
... consistently grounded in Puerto Rican history, politics, and critique. The author pursues an analytics of debt as a pillar of capitalist modernity through the lens of Marxist political-economy, decolonial critique, feminist and queer analysis, and politics by means of a rigorous and creative dialogue...
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Patería and Contemporary Puerto Rican Queer/Trans Performance
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 115–129.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Patería is a Puerto Rican Spanish-language vernacular synonym for “queerness” as a sign of gender and sexual transgression. It invokes stigmatized LGBTQIA+ local language practices that coexist in tension with the modernity, paradoxes, and challenges of other words...
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Puerto Rican Colonialism, Caribbean Radicalism, and Pueblos Hispanos ’s Inter-Nationalist Alliance
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 50–68.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Cristina Pérez Jiménez Drawing from Earl Browder’s papers, this essay examines the Communist-sponsored, New York Spanish-language newspaper Pueblos Hispanos (1943–44), arguing that the publication staged an uneasy alliance between the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and the US Communist Party...
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Aldrin Manuel Cañals voguing at the Renuncia Ball during the Puerto Rican d...
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Published: 01 July 2022
Figure 4 Aldrin Manuel Cañals voguing at the Renuncia Ball during the Puerto Rican demonstrations of the summer of 2019. Photograph by SUPAKID. Courtesy of Daniela Romero and Aldrin Manuel Cañals
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“If I Were You”: Tego Calderón’s Diasporic Interventions
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 55–69.
Published: 01 March 2018
... establishes connections between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans through an understanding of their shared marginalization as black subjects. This has important implications for African diaspora theory, which has typically neglected Puerto Rican and Dominican engagements with blackness. Calderón disrupts two...
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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
...Raquel Salas Rivera Working as principal investigator and head of the translation team for El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña / the Puerto Rican Literature Project (PRLP)—a free, bilingual, user-friendly, and open access digital portal that anyone can use to learn about and teach Puerto...
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Her Name Was Doña Margot
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 36–49.
Published: 01 July 2021
...César Colón-Montijo Margarita “Doña Margot” Rivera García (1909–2000) was a black working-class Puerto Rican woman whose labor as a composer, healer, midwife, and spiritual medium made her an esteemed community leader among her neighbors from Santurce, a predominantly black enclave in San Juan...
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Toward a Genealogy of Water: Reading Julia de Burgos in the Twenty-First Century
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Rebeca L. Hey-Colón Through a discussion of Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon , this essay argues that Julia de Burgos is an integral figure to consider in the development of a feminine genealogy of the uses of water in Caribbean and diasporic...
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Rediscovering Julia de Burgos: The People's Rebel Soul Poet
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Edna Acosta-Belén This commentary is inspired to a large degree, but not solely, by literary critic Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's remarkable book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon . Aiming to undertake a historical and critical engagement with some aspects of Pérez-Rosario's...
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Julia de Burgos and the Mourning of Community
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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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The Afterlives of Julia de Burgos
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 209–218.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Vanessa Pérez-Rosario This essay—a response to a discussion of the author's 2014 book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon —focuses on the importance of generations, intellectual genealogies, iconicity, and the afterlives of Puerto Rican poet and writer Julia de Burgos. 10...
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“The Antilles for the Sons of the Antilles”: On Translating Ramón Emeterio Betances
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 160–165.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Khalila Chaar-Pérez In sharing the original French version as well as Spanish and (first-ever) English translations of “Speech at the Masonic Lodge of Port-au-Prince” (ca. 1870–71), the author argues for the importance of the work of Afro–Puerto Rican activist Ramón Emeterio Betances in the history...
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Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 122–132.
Published: 01 July 2020
... colonialism as the underlying power structure reinforcing debt and political subservience. What can be perceived or accomplished outside the self-perpetuating frame of crisis? This essay sketches the contours of a different approach, one that considers what Puerto Ricans owe to each other as well as accounts...
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Where Do Journals Come From? The Case of Sargasso
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 92–97.
Published: 01 July 2016
... anglophone Caribbean figures such as Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming, Gordon K. Lewis, and Lorna Goodison. Major Puerto Rican writers such as Luis Rafael Sánchez, Pedro Juan Soto, and Ana Lydia Vega were featured in early issues as well. After publishing nine issues in a bound letter-page format, Sargasso...
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The Legacies of Luisa Capetillo
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 68–73.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Julio Ramos This brief essay is an introduction to the work of Puerto Rican anarchist and feminist activist and writer Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922) and opens the special section on Capetillo in this issue of Small Axe . 13 See Ángel G. Quintero Rivera, Workers’ Struggle in Puerto Rico...
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Reading Luisa Capetillo
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Nancy Bird-Soto “Nonconformist” is one of several ways to describe Puerto Rican feminist Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922). As a transnational figure who synthesizes a unique fusion of diverse influences such as anarchism, spiritism, and syndicalism, Capetillo presents a distinctive reader-writer persona...
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