... 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...

...Aquiles Sánchez Villaman An English version of this short fiction is available at smallaxe.net/sx/issue/56 . Uno se le acerca, le siembra una rodilla en el pecho y le mete la mano en la boca. Quiere llevarse la caja de dientes como suvenir. No sale. Inspecciona la cavidad una, dos...

... Sánchez Michelle Joan Wilkinson Puerto Rico is an island adrift in the predominantly postcolonial Caribbean sphere that is its topographic equivalent. Lying between the North Americas and the Nuestras Américas, Puerto Rico epitomizes the historical reality of a divided nation : nearly one-half...

...: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995). 26 Emily Apter, The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006). 25 Homar, “Luis Rafael Sánchez: Counterpoints,” 14–15...

..., rédaction 13, no. 2 (2000): 9. 4 Joanne Akai, “Creole … English: West Indian Writing as Translation,” TTR 10, no. 1 (1997): 166. 5 Jairo Sánchez-Galvis, “Translation Studies,” in Barbara Lalla et al., eds., Methods in Caribbean Research: Literature, Discourse, Culture (Kingston...

... highlighted instances in which Schomburg connected with black hispanophone artists and writers years after he drifted away from Puerto Rican and Latinx politics. He also never gave up searching for sources with which to craft Afro-hispanophone histories. This is also a claim that Lisa Sánchez González...

... The title of Luis Rafael Sánchez’s short story “The Flying Bus” reduces the distance and captures the ordinariness and subaltern travelers of the plane ride that “ferries every night between the airports of San Juan and New York.”11 In Brand’s rendering, the subway is a subterranean...

... of the Caribbean , 292–94. 22 See ibid.; Ángel J. Cappelletti, Anarchism in Latin America , trans. Gabriel Palmer-Fernández (Oakland, CA: AK, 2017); Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, Voces libertarias: Orígenes del anarquismo en Puerto Rico , 3rd ed. (Lajas, PR: Editorial Akelarre, 2015); and Amparo Sánchez Cobos...

... the attention of Elinor Des Verney Sinnette, author of the 1989 book-length study Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile and Collector . That text, two chapters by Lisa Sánchez González, and two essays by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof had been, before Diasporic Blackness , the longest pieces dedicated to him...

.... 52 See Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, “Female Sex Tourism: A Contradiction in Terms,” Feminist Review 83, no. 1 (2006): 42–59. 53 Sheller, Consuming the Caribbean, 161. 54 Ibid., 163. 35 • July 2011 • Shirley Tate  |  53...

... poets who until now had not received critical treatment in English, such as Juan Sánchez Lamouth, the folk versifi er Juan Antonio Alix, Jacques Viau Renaud, Norberto James Rawlings, and Blas R. Jiménez. Among the other literary fi gures covered in her study, Aída Cartagena Portalatín has received...

... by Guerra y Sanchez in Azucar y poblacion . At the same time, the social anthropologists conceived of the tropical plantation as an area within which a culturation process was taking place, leading to what was designated a mestizo culture in the hispanic/hacienda area, based largely on Amerindians...

... the norm and become a listener to this lectora. Capetillo’s syntax, highly infused by orality as Julio Ramos remarks, is a manifestation of her anarchist influences. About its peculiarities, Lisa Sánchez González underscores “the meandering and forceful rush of images and ideas that are not containable...

... dejaré de amarte Th e airplane became an inherent part of my life. I lived the metaphor used by Luis Rafael Sánchez, in his short story “La guagua aérea,” (Th e Air Bus On the airplane, I experienced a space of transition and reinvention. I became what Turner has called a liminal...

... in the United States and Europe, Williams was also shaped by what Lisa Sánchez González calls his “migratory family history in the Caribbean, as well as his bilingual, bicultural formation in the States .” 1 One can read Williams's lifelong commitment to a poetics animated by an uniquely American language...

...] Carib,” 9 or perhaps of the “ hard-working and persevering ” jíbaros described in 1893 by Juan J. Sánchez in La caña en Santo Domingo —the Puerto Rican peasants who could save the land of the Dominican Republic from its wasteful and nonprogressive under-use (namely, its Blackness and non...

... 43 Facing the Nation: Art History and Art Criticism in the Jamaican Context Andrea N. Douglas 49 Haciendo Patria: The Puerto Rican Flag in the Art of Juan Sánchez Michelle Joan Wilkinson 61 Visual...

.... 17 Holly Barnet-Sanchez, “Chicano/a Critical Practices: Reflections on Tomás Ybarra-Frausto's Concept of Rasquachismo ,” in Mercer, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures , 68–87. 16 Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, “ Rasquachismo : A Chicano Sensibility,” in Mercer, Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures , 58–67...

... world of regime politics, they represent the corruption of an otherwise innocent, and appropriately maternal, female populace. From the colonial period through the modern era, female martyrs such as indigenous leader Anacaona, independence fighter María Trinidad Sánchez, and Minerva Mirabal have...

... other critics, poets, and translators who have yet to receive full treatment in Caribbean studies: New York Puerto Ricans Miguel Algarín, Jesús Abraham “Tato” Laviera Sánchez (1951–2013), and Roberto Márquez, and Cuban Lourdes Casal Valdés (1938–81). 4 This essay underscores the debt that scholars...