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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
... argues that both authors use neo–slave narrative tropes to simultaneously problematize acts of violence against these individuals and demonstrate how women engaged and even utilized limiting colonial paradigms. © 2012 by Small Axe, Inc. 2012 What can a white man be in the colonies but the enemy...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 1–17.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jennifer L. Morgan From the moment of its introduction into the Atlantic world, hereditary racial slavery depended on an understanding that enslaved women’s reproductive lives would be tethered to the institution of slavery. At the same time, few colonial slave codes explicitly defined the status...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
Published: 01 July 2018
... approach that reveals and challenges the epistemic violence of the official archive. Her analysis incisively attends to the relationships between empire, intimacy, and violence without sacrificing attention to either the devastating effects for women or the multiple ways Indian women refused to be defined...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 1–16.
Published: 01 November 2017
... on women's sexual experience on the slave plantation. By focusing on the horror of slavery, more specifically the female experience of it, James further casts a searchlight on the exclusionary foundation not only of modernity and the modern nation-state but, by extension, of the postcolonial Caribbean state...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 14–31.
Published: 01 October 2008
... to be subsumed, but just the opposite. This monstrous concept was an explosive destroyer
of social customs and habits, one whose meaning was quite unfixed and novel (Did it include
the poor? Free gens de couleur ? Slaves? Women? Jews Only concerted acts of communitarian
and intersubjective political...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 137–149.
Published: 01 September 2003
... men could, in this economy, demonstrate or fi nd their true man-
hood by working for the support of their families and removing their dependency on
ssmallmall the planter. Th e position of ex-slave women was to be reshaped by the assumptions of
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subordination implicit...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
...: Pluto, 1986).
21 Anne Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2002).
22 Francis, Fictions of Feminine Citizenship, 2.
23 Barbara Bush, Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650–1838...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 244–253.
Published: 01 July 2018
... from time to time. They appeared as slave women did, in moments of excess or scandal, when they had been mistreated on the ships that transported them or on the plantations where they worked. Usually, they were described by others, by the various white men who held power over them: the doctors aboard...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (1): 156–163.
Published: 01 February 2007
... Invasion: Politics, Law, and Foreign Policy Decision
Making (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993); Edward Cox, Free Coloureds in the Slave Societies of St. Kitts and Grenada,
1763–1833 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984); Nicole Phillip, Producers, Reproducers and Rebels:
Grenadian Slave...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
...–1838 (Bridgetown, Barbados: Antilles Publications, c. 1984); Barbara Bush, Slave Women in Caribbean Soci-
ety, 1650–1838 (Kingston: Heinemann, 1990); Dale W. Tomich, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the
World Economy, 1830–1848 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1990); Ira Berlin...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 37–50.
Published: 01 November 2009
... is thus composed of
“bits and pieces,” of limbs signifying away from their irretrievable original branch.
20 Barbara Bush, Slave Women in Caribbean Society (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), 83.
21 See David Schneider, American Kinship (Chicago: University of Chicago...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 96–116.
Published: 01 July 2011
... garments worn by Cuban slave women,
but it also referenced the type of dress worn in Santería initiation ceremonies. “I was there 45
minutes without saying a word,” she recalled. “It was very charged.”15 Curator Sally Berger
has described the performances of Campos-Pons as having “the intensity equal...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2022
... but through systems that enslaved people themselves created to indict crimes and record judgments? While a slave owner would never be brought to court on a charge of rape, for example, songs recorded the constant threat predatory captors posed to enslaved women on the plantation. In his 1835 publication...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
.... This narrative strategy makes Mr. D's actions part of a continuum of violent behavior toward young women. Violence toward a daughter and a slave are related actions: “My old master often got drunk, and then he would get in a fury with his daughter, and beat her till she was not fit to be seen.” 45 In the next...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 184–192.
Published: 01 July 2017
... the household into the public realm, where we gain the experience, and hence the concept, of freedom. Whatever degree of freedom a person might have in the private sphere (as master over slaves, women, or children), it is not truly a political—that is social—freedom. Freedom, as Arendt conceives of it, can...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
...), 125–43.
35 Seminal among this historical trajectory is Lucille Mathurin-Mair, “A History of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844” (PhD diss.,
University of the West Indies, Kingston, 1974). See also Hilary Beckles, Centering Woman: Gender Discourses in Caribbean
Slave Society...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 110–125.
Published: 01 March 2017
... to contemporary visual artwork is the perspective of Caribbean women artists. Through a discussion of Roshini Kempadoo's interactive installation Ghosting , the essay considers alternative forms of archiving lived memory through Diana Taylor's notion of the repertoire. It also considers modernist...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 1–20.
Published: 01 November 2010
...’) the cry Black slave women would
shout to each other.”13 In the preface to his play Monsieur Toussaint, Glissant coins the term
prophetic vision of the past, suggesting a poeticized method of approaching those histories
that are hidden or silent. Opting for a certain temporal- and sensory...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... as a manifestation of the black radical tradition and a critical involvement with socialism. Drawing on C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, it argues that black freedom struggles in the Americas and Europe, including slave revolts, have been an essential part of the history of labor and freedom struggles. It also...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 112–118.
Published: 01 June 2008
... and his countless
sexual encounters with other dependent female slaves. It is in these nonchalant records of
“mastery” that we gain some insight into the lives of the many women lost to official anonym-
ity on Caribbean plantations. The names of seventy of these Egypt women, both enslaved and
free...
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