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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 52–72.
Published: 01 October 2007
... of the nineteenth century on Caribbean writing, neither work understands Romanticism as central to the dilemmas of contemporary national identity. Victorian writers, by producing narratives of the emerging middle class, stand in marked contrast to Romantic poets and black nationalists of the mid...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 30–54.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and genres of Black protest. In so doing, it refocuses vindicationism on these rhetorical evidentiary practices, rather than on the mythos of romance and romantic overcoming that has categorized vindicationist narratives of the Haitian Revolution. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 50–65.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in the conjunction of past, present, and future through the registers of diagnostician and participant in political mobilization. The author argues that Rodney’s analogy of the historian as medical doctor generates a critique of romantic depictions of the African past and draws on the language of Marxism to track...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 53–60.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Ángel A. Rivera This essay explores Eugenio María de Hostos’s and Ramón E. Betances’s notions of modern subjectivities, in the context of Romantic narratives, to index the fractures of collective and communal nationalist imaginaries within the Caribbean Confederation. Hostos and Betances were...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 44–52.
Published: 01 March 2020
... (1857), a romantic novella about the conquest of Puerto Rico, and “A Cuba Libre” (1871), a biographical essay about Haiti’s first president, Alexandre Pétion, the author explores Betances’s vision of Caribbean unity and its connections to race, gender, republicanism, and decolonization. Ramón...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 171–181.
Published: 01 July 2021
... of the dominant North Atlantic interpretation of the “American James.” In particular, the author sees Kamugisha as seeming to accept without question the hegemonic Americanist assumption that James took a romantic excursion in the United States, and thus Beyond Coloniality neglects the deeply gendered analysis...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 63–84.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., and the United States, thereby making border crossings significant to Fire's romantic self and associations. Fire and Sylvia's affair turns on issues of identity, specifically the protagonist's certainty about his own and his desire that Sylvia reconnect with her Jamaican and artistic selves and effectively shed...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
... romantic love. Engaging with the necropower of sex tourism and that of the state, I argue that nationalist redemption does not lie in transracial intimacy and that a decolonial reading of romance is necessary in order to take account of the politics of choosing to die as a critical...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Castellano i s a professor of English and coordinator of environmental humanities at James Madison University. She is the author of The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism (2013) and was awarded an Eccles Centre Fellowship at the British Library to continue researching Robert Wedderburn...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... 27 There is perhaps little need to remind ourselves in any detail of the historicist temper of romanticism, the “sheer excess and extravagance,” as Stephen Bann puts it, “of the romantic investment in the past.” 28 But it may be as well for our purposes here to foreground the distinctive...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 131–154.
Published: 01 November 2019
... in peace; a finger could touch it with accusing levity, and a languid eye could review or reconstruct it incessantly. We can place the lightness of our fingers onto this irreconcilable substance as it releases a brief swirl of smoke. That is why the nineteenth century, after a certain measure of Romantic...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 46–62.
Published: 01 June 2007
... of being Other and a reification of that state, making abstract Otherness material or concrete. This signification involves the synthesis of aesthetics and politics and fulfills both romantic and utilitarian aspirations. That is, dreadlocks suggest something of the romantic notion...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2016
... commitments to social justice for the fashionable blandishments of postmodern neoliberalism. It wasn't zeal, I thought; not simply ideology, either. It was something more akin to the persistence of an instinct . Fernández Retamar remained at heart a self-proclaimed “romantic socialist,” less in the name...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
.... Lilith's knowledge about love and sex are understandably skewed. For example, she first learns about romantic love from her adopted slave father's stories, which are based on a page from a book—a torn image of a white boy staring admiringly at a “white girl like she be the beautifullest, preciousest thing...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 86–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
... makes clear, attention to this history reveals much about Césaire's evolution as a poet and thinker: from the still “romantic” and under-studied 1939 edition published in the journal Volontés , to the polemical “En guise de manifeste littéraire” (published in Tropiques in 1942), which includes...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 87–103.
Published: 01 November 2019
... Jacobins . The 1936 play closes romantically in 1803, with Dessalines heroically assuming command and announcing independence, formally declared 1 January 1804, while paying homage to Toussaint. At the end of the 1967 play, by contrast, Dessalines has declared himself emperor of Haiti, and he orders...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 151–158.
Published: 01 July 2021
... romantic stance? I feel there is also a sense of loss and pain buried in the core of every living thing that roots itself here, for even the plants have been transplanted. What connects us to the soil as Caribbean people? We plant, pick bush, talk herbal talk. Elders speak of bush baths and rubs...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of disaster? This news report on NBC stunned me: a woman named Janette, who had been trapped alone in the dark for five days, was brought out from the rubble singing. The journalist report- ing the story focused on the romantic, dramatic perspective of Janette’s husband, who, despite...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 June 2008
... Campeador, derived from the Arabic title of al-Said al-Kambayatur, was a more skillful turncoat, and George Washington a more experienced liar, even when the national mythology of Spain and the United States paint the first one as the personification of the dutiful and romantic...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 202–204.
Published: 01 September 2005
... (sexual, of course) involving black men and white women or white men with black women to spice things up and pull in the crowds, which can’t get enough of a good bedroom story. And for the romantics, you could easily unearth some tragic love stories set against the background of fi res, revolution...