... and “the inevitable failure of any attempt to represent her . . . [as] a productive tension and one unavoidable in narrating the lives of the subaltern, the dispossessed, and the enslaved.” 13 In this way she “engage[s] a set of dilemmas about representation, violence, and social death, not by using the form...

... Neighbor’s Slave Society: Rethinking Comparison in the History of Caribbean Slavery,” Small Axe , no. 58 (March 2019): 208–19. 22 St. Barthélemysamlingen, SNA. 23 E. O. E. Högström, S. Barthelemy under sven[s]kt välde (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell, 1888); Ingegerd Hildebrand, Den svenska...

...); enclosure no. 5, People's Association of British Guiana, Tamil Nadu Archives, Chennai, India. 6 Aisha Khan, “Material and Immaterial Bodies: Diaspora Studies and the Problem of Culture, Identity, and Race,” Small Axe , no. 48 (November 2015): 48. 7 See Tejpal S. Ajji and Jon Soske, eds...

... as possible the conditions that determine the appearance of Venus and that dictate her silence. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Venus in Two Acts Saidiya Hartman Ab s t r a c...

... University Press, 2002); and Sibylle Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004). 4 Julius S. Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution (New York: Verso, 2018). 5...

... of colonial history. To unpack this claim, I turn toward the two Caribbean Canadian novels at its basis: David Chariandy's 2007 Soucouyant and Ramabai Espinet's 2003 The Swinging Bridge , both of which characterize colonial history as an outstanding debt. Soucouyant 's subtitle, A Novel of Forgetting...

... turns to the diary of her mother, Siméa, who becomes representative of resistant voices that go unheard in the archives. Scholar Arlette Farge critiques literary authors who take archival history out of context by making “heroes” rather than “historical subject[s],” yet Maximin’s work opposes...

..., Folder 6. Burnard does acknowledge that this is a gang rape ( Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire , 82). 73 Thistlewood, diary entries, 3 and 4 March 1755, box 2, Folder 6. 72 See Peter Wagner, “The Discourse on Sex—or Sex as Discourse: Eighteenth-century Medical and Paramedical Erotica,” in G. S...

...David Scott Small Axe Incorporated 2008 small axe a caribbean journal of criticism Ed i t o r David Scott As s o c i a t e Ed i t o r s Ma n a g i n g Ed i t o r Anthony Bogues Kelly Baker Josephs...

...” of the “everyday world” and, through them, “dig[s] deep” into “collective memory.” 6 Glissant’s position was hardly unique; just a few pages later, he quotes Kamau Brathwaite’s “Caribbean Man in Space and Time,” an essay that begins with a similar allegorical invocation of violent geologic processes and winds...

..., and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832–1938 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992); Frederick Cooper, Thomas C. Holt, and Rebecca J. Scott, Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000); Anne S...

... revolutionary activity was focused on “the structures of the mind,” where defeat or victory were largely “internal affair[s]”—it was a tradition that “more easily sustained suicide than assault.” 27 Some origins to the tradition: (1) The followers of Nongqawuse, the Xhosa prophetess who claimed in 1856...

....⁴ Speaking to this point, Michel-Rolphe Trouillot ’s Silencing the Past contemplates Haiti and its suspensions in history to eloquently trace the insinuations of power in the production of history from “primary” sources to textbook syntheses.⁵ However, even as he elucidates how...

... such as Marcus Garvey or Claudius Henry, and later Bob Marley or Abu Bakr. Additional relevant projects are the ever growing body of literature on Rastafari, the conferences and volumes that have been sponsored by the Center for Caribbean Thought at the University of the West Indies, and Small Axe 's own...

... (1944; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994). 26 Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713 (Chapel Hill: Uni- versity of North Carolina Press, 1972); Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom...

... also come into play as she “see[s] her and . . . feel[s] with and for her” (45). These politics are what also prompt her to situate Haitian girls in a broader context: And so this Girl from the archives of disaster of the first month of the second decade of the twenty-first century is evocative of two...

... Barclays's archives, while methodologically drawing on the approach to multinational banking expansion of business historians Geoffrey Jones and A. S. J. Baster. She also examines the attempts at localization of Barclay's Caribbean branches, considering the fraught intersections of race, class, corporate...

...—Great Britain and the United States—in enforcing the international embargo that forced the Haitian 24 Uday S. Mehta, “Liberal Strategies of Exclusion,” in Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Berkeley...

... of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 , 13 vols. (Richmond, 1819), 2:170. 12 Jerome S. Handler, “Custom and Law: The Status of Enslaved Africans in Seventeenth-Century Barbados,” Slavery and Abolition 37, no. 1 (2016): 8–9. For a discussion of maternal descent and the problematic language of partus sequitur...

... Republic’s short-lived annexation to Spain and its collapse, see Anne Eller, We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016). 12 Lewis Gordon refers to Eddie Glaude Jr.’s definition of political imagination as “being...