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The Lost New World of Caribbean Studies: Recalling an Un-American Puerto Rico Project
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the New World approach to the region. Titled “Paths to National Self-Discovery: USA and Puerto Rico,” it first appeared in 1956 and was written by Daniel J. Boorstin, a historian of the United States. Unlike conventional scholarship on the Caribbean, including the definitive work, The People of Puerto...
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“A Spanish planter of Porto Rico, luxuriating in his hammock” (ca. 1808). F...
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Figure 1 “A Spanish planter of Porto Rico, luxuriating in his hammock” (ca. 1808). From John A. Waller, A Voyage in the West Indies (London, 1820), facing page 33. www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/500
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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
...Adriana María Garriga-López This essay addresses the epistemic limits of crisis as a trope for thinking about the future of Puerto Rico in the context of fiscal austerity programs and the combined effects of multiple disasters. Small-scale agriculture and mutual aid offer models of resistance to US...
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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
...Mónica B. Ocasio Vega This essay explores fugitivity in Puerto Rican culinary practices, centering the cooks María Dolores “Lula” de Jesús and Viña “la Gran Pastelera” Hernández. By analyzing two visual texts— Eat, Drink, Share Puerto Rico ’s episode “El Burén de Lula” and Hernández’s recipe video...
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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
...Agustín Laó-Montes This review essay of Rocio Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) argues that it is a book about contemporary Puerto Rico and its world-historical significance that engages this endeavor with depth and breath, carefully crafting its own argument, through...
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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
...Lowell Fiet Work on Sargasso as an independent journal of Caribbean literature, language, and culture began at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in 1983. After a successful, but not uncomplicated, launching of its first issue in 1984, the journal received support and contributions from important...
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The Precarity of Intramural Theorizing
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 179–189.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Judith Rodríguez This review essay of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) illustrates Zambrana’s own intervention into “race/gender/class” hierarchies as carrying their own relations of power within her rewriting of the “plantation complex,” using the colony of Puerto...
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Behind the Orange Door
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico, in 2004. Incorporating both self- and peer reflection, their remarks provide historical and critical context for their own and each other's work. They also address the Caribbean as influence and inspiration, and as both a real and an imagined site. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017...
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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
... and Kamau Brathwaite. Ultimately, this essay discusses the uneasy relationship between rooted, land-based constructs of identity and flowing water imagery, arguing that exploring the tensions between them is productive not only in the case of Puerto Rico but also in other Caribbean settings. In sharp...
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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
... for the prolonged delay and neglect by Puerto Rico's literary establishment in giving the poet her due recognition? What were some of the circumstances that converged to thrust such a gifted writer and social and political revolutionary into the physical and mental ravages of alcohol addiction, wandering...
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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
...Petra R. Rivera-Rideau In 2012, reggaeton artist Tego Calderón released a music video for his song “Robin Hood.” The video tells the story of a man who aids a group of undocumented Dominican immigrants to Puerto Rico. Through a close reading of “Robin Hood,” this essay argues that Calderón...
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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
... produced within a particular national context. On this premise, Natalie L. Belisle argues that “untranslatability” designates the exclusion of texts originating in juridically indeterminate spaces, such as Puerto Rico, from world literary space. Building primarily on theories of language and translation...
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When Tía Ate the Telegram: Defiance, Solidarity, and Multipoetic Sensorial Listening
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
Published: 01 July 2022
... brother’s death in the Korean War. Through interpreting the story with multipoetic sensorial listening as a potential methodology, the author uncovers how this brief act so ingrained in her family lore might serve as a form of defiance against colonialism and militarization in Puerto Rico. The essay also...
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Sensorial Errancy in Decolonial Key
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 144–153.
Published: 01 July 2022
... that is the present. It focuses in particular on Santiago Muñoz’s Otros Usos (2014), which specifically explores Vieques, Puerto Rico. To apprehend the past that is the present requires indexing the continuity of the plantation economy, and thus its racial order, in the military complex, in the tourist economy...
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Walking Duermevelas with Luisa
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 98–111.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa Luisa Capetillo’s revolutionary power was recognized in her time by allies and detractors alike, both in Puerto Rico and abroad. The scarcely examined archive of Puerto Rican and US-based newspaper coverage between 1911 and 1913 shows the significance of Capetillo’s gesta...
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White Mythologies
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
...Figure 1 “A Spanish planter of Porto Rico, luxuriating in his hammock” (ca. 1808). From John A. Waller, A Voyage in the West Indies (London, 1820), facing page 33. www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/500 ...
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Secretions of Subjectivity: Temporality and Agency in Colonial Debts
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 190–200.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Ernesto Blanes-Martinez This review essay analyzes the problem of subjectivity in Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) from a phenomenological perspective. The essay argues that despite the absence of an explicit formulation, Colonial Debts relies on a theory...
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Organizing Pessimism Redux
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Rocío Zambrana Engaging the important discussions of Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) in the review essays from Judy Rodríguez, Ernesto Blanes-Martinez, and Agustín Laó-Montes, this reply essay from the book’s author recounts and situates the main theses of Colonial Debts in light...
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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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A Case for Relation: Mapping Afro-Latinx Caribbean and Equatoguinean Poetics
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... imaginaries that exist across the Afro-Latinx Caribbean (Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic), Equatorial Guinea (the only Spanish-speaking nation-state in Sub-Saharan Africa), and their diasporic cultural productions in the United States and Spain. The essay ultimately argues that women of color...
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