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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 30–54.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Chelsea Stieber This essay analyzes the genre of mémoire produced by gens de couleur (free people of color) within the colonial and military bureaucracy of revolutionary Saint-Domingue. Building on recent scholarship on Toussaint Louverture’s 1802 “Mémoire du général Toussaint Louverture...
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in The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 12 “We Can’t Breathe” graffiti, by Jerry Rosembert Moïse, Collège Saint Louis de Bourdon, John Brown Avenue, Pétionville, 7 June 2020. Photograph by Nadia Todres
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 28–36.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Bonnie Thomas Rodney Saint-Éloi is one of the most exciting contemporary writers of Haitian origin, and yet his work is little studied in the academic world. Saint-Éloi, who was born in Haiti in 1963 and migrated to Montreal, Canada, in 2001, has maintained a long and distinguished career...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 53–66.
Published: 01 July 2020
...Fredrik Thomasson Sweden became a slaveholding nation when it acquired its only Caribbean colony, Saint-Barthélemy—a.k.a. St. Barths or St. Barts—from France in 1784. When the island was retroceded in 1878, the records created during ninety-four years of Swedish Caribbean rule were left behind...
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in The Caribbean Scorpion: The Saint-Barthélemy Archive and Swedish Colonial Amnesia
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 July 2020
Figure 2 The Swedish, French, local Saint-Barthélemy, and European Union flags in front of the Gustavia Hôtel de la collectivité, the seat of the local governing body. Photograph by the author.
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Susan C. Méndez Recent texts in Latinx literature have ghosts that demonstrate new knowledge about history, culture, and subjectivity. In Song of the Water Saints and Soledad , the first novels of authors Nelly Rosario and Angie Cruz, respectively, the figure of the ghost is a trope...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 52–56.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Vladimir Cybil Small Axe Incorporated 2005 When the Saints Go Marching By
Vladimir Cybil
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Fig. 2. (pg. 54) Grande Park
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 72–84.
Published: 01 July 2018
... functionaries to the status of villain or, in the Dominican case, celestina (madam or procuress) or vagabunda (tramp), equates their public activities to a form of prostitution and reifies a narrowly proscribed window of behavior through which women’s actions can be understood as political. While the saint...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 1–14.
Published: 01 November 2023
... benevolence, a valence of White saviorism, is a performance designed to maintain the status quo of colonial Saint-Domingue. The essay also considers the implications of examining global South critiques of Whiteness for the often US-centric field of critical Whiteness studies. Dance on the Volcano focuses...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 49–62.
Published: 01 November 2024
... contribution lies in its focus on murals. The author argues that the physical and cultural landscape of Bristol, England, has been transformed through the creation of seven large-scale commemorative murals featuring noted men and women of the Windrush generation. The street murals comprising the Seven Saints...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 163–172.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., and violence. The slave insurgency in Saint Domingue thus becomes a privileged moment in universal history. While I find Buck-Morss' reading of Hegel's master-slave dialectic in light of the Haitian Revolution more persuasive than many other recent attempts at thinking universality in relation to slave...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 102–120.
Published: 01 November 2015
... essai (2013). Chamoiseau's attempt to weave Césaire into a tradition that includes Saint-John Perse, Edouard Glissant, and—most prominently—the French poet René Char leaves us with many questions: What is the complex geography of legacy? What happens when substantially different poets are pressed...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 49–64.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the idea of Hispanic Caribbean studies for the historical study of the region. Historically, the Hispanic Caribbean at times included islands and colonies such as Jamaica, Trinidad, and Saint-Domingue. Patterns of migration further complicate the boundaries of the Hispanic Caribbean, as diaspora renders...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 94–104.
Published: 01 October 2008
... artists and to the new generation of sculptors linked to the Saint Soleil school. The article concludes with a consideration of the role of artists in contemporary political movements. ©2008 Small Axe Incorporated. All rights reserved. 2008 Contemporary Art as Cultural
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 195–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... Ada Ferrer’s Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution uses extensive primary source documentation alongside an evocative prose style that allows for speculative possibilities. Despite silences in the historical record, how might free and enslaved blacks in Saint-Domingue and Cuba have...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 14–31.
Published: 01 October 2008
... Revolutionaries—not
just Toussaint Louverture but also, as Carolyn Fick has demonstrated, the whole multitude
of Haitian slaves—fought to institute an emancipatory social structure that would allow for
1. “Bossale” refers to the slaves of Saint-Domingue born in Africa and subsequently brought by force...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 199–209.
Published: 01 November 2021
... entre Haïti et l’Afrique avant que l’opinion publique leur emboîte le pas. Mais, dans un premier temps, arrêtons-nous sur une historiographie anti-indigéniste, datée des années 1980, reprise dans les travaux de l’historien Vertus Saint-Louis. À force de chercher à contrecarrer l’historiographie...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 16–23.
Published: 01 September 2005
... further than
was ever intended, carrying it to its radical conclusion. “Reaction triumphed” in Paris,
as James points out, but in Saint Domingue
[Th e slaves] had heard of the revolution and had construed it in their own image: the white slaves
in France had risen, and killed their masters...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 208–219.
Published: 01 March 2019
... in the port of Havana in 1802 and 1803, during the time of Victor Leclerc’s unsuccessful expedition that sought to restore French colonial rule in neighboring Saint-Domingue, Ada Ferrer writes of Havana: “Crew members entered a world already itself fairly cosmopolitan, one with vibrant, diverse and polyglot...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 5–19.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in general; it requires a long apprenticeship and great trials; and besides, the Negroes in the islands, in Saint-Domingue, were a hundred times happier under good masters than in their homeland. 4 As with the retrospective insight on the excesses of the French Revolution, Haiti's 1804 declaration...
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