...—that it had not died and could be a viable option for their efforts and, in time, a preferable one. © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. modernism specialization standardization conformism...

...Kaiama L. Glover; Martin Munro These introductory remarks frame the special section “Translating the Caribbean” and discuss the impetus behind the project as well as its future iterations. Each of the five essays in the special section is outlined in its broad strokes, and specific reference...

...Jossianna Arroyo This response essay reviews the six contributions to the special section “Con-Federating the Archipelago: The Confederación Antillana and the West Indies Federation.” These key interventions on the Spanish Caribbean Confederation projects in the nineteenth century and the West...

...Veerle Poupeye This paper examines the Intuitives concept and the controversies that have surrounded this artistic genre in Jamaica. It argues that Intuitive art, as it has been defined by the National Gallery of Jamaica, constitutes a specialized canon within the national canons, rather than...

...Robert F. Reid-Pharr The Stranger's Work reads Hazel Carby's Reconstructing Womanhood into a critical tradition that considers the awkwardness and “outsider” status of Western intellectuals, particularly those who take up the subjects of diaspora and colonization. With special emphasis on C.L.R...

...Michael McMillan West Indian identity was created in the context of Diasporic migration and the West Indian front room as the `special' room designated in the domestic interiors of migrants was reserved for guests with restricted access to children. In response to the trauma of displacement...

...Annalee Davis; Joscelyn Gardner; Erica Moiah James; Jerry Philogene This special section focuses on the work of women whose artistic practices are grounded in a feminist ethos and engage multiple and nuanced meanings of the Caribbean and its diaspora across linguistic, geographic, material...

... across the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. Artistic comrades for twenty years, they have also collaborated with each other in performance and video. Here, they offer a deep exchange about their creative practice, paying special attention to two works individually premiered on a split bill...

...Martin Munro; Celia Britton This essay introduces part 1 of a special section on the créolité movement—“Eulogizing Creoleness? Rereading Éloge de la créolité ”—in which a variety of essays explore and assess the impact, twenty-five-plus years on, of the controversial manifesto by Patrick Chamoiseau...

... of Brathwaite’s recommendations for Caribbean studies models. First, it is designed to stymie what Brathwaite describes as “the ‘pebble’ or single territory complex” (2; 92). Though it explicitly relies on academic specialization for the curation of each keyword, the artifacts are transcolonial, translinguistic...

...Aaron Kamugisha This introduction opens a special section featuring a series of tributes in homage to Kamau Brathwaite. The author’s generational perspective becomes the occasion for a reflection on Brathwaite’s legacy, creative voice, and sustained vision of the future of the Caribbean. The essay...

...Julio Ramos This brief essay is an introduction to the work of Puerto Rican anarchist and feminist activist and writer Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922) and opens the special section on Capetillo in this issue of Small Axe . [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022...

... was also a historian of colonialism and decolonization—which, ever since the 1950s and with Indonesian independence, had become a separate “specialization” in Dutch historiography, overall separated from Dutch (and Euro-pean) history. In Dutch society, De Kom’s history was sealed off, sequestered within...

...Melanie J. Newton This essay, an introduction to the special section on Caribbean historiography in this issue, reflects on Caribbean historiography's role in the pursuit of redress for historic injustices by exploring what three recent landmark legal developments reveal about Haiti's place...

...Kelly Baker Josephs Introduction to the special section on Caribbean Epistemologies in this issue. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 How in the post-colonial present do we conceptualize the societies in the Caribbean? While explicitly a formulation about meaning in the post-colonial present...

...Martin Munro This essay, which introduces part 2 of the special section “Eulogizing Creoleness? Rereading Éloge de la créolité ,” considers the Éloge ’s relationship with time, specifically the idea that it was before its time or that it was published in advance of the existence of an appropriately...

...Patricia Noxolo This essay serves as an introduction to a special section of Small Axe on Caribbean in/securities. It begins by offering a threefold insight into the concept of “in/securities”: securities and insecurities are produced as spatially localized and historically contingent...

...Betsy Wing This essay briefly describes the process of working with the author Édouard Glissant in translating his works, with a particular focus on the novel Mahagony . It explores the extent to which a personal relationship with the author provides both special insights and frustration...

... that comparative work between the two con-federation projects poses several disciplinary challenges. For example, most scholars in Caribbean studies specialize in one of the federations, one time period, or in one area or linguistic tradition of the Caribbean. The essays here invite scholars to examine...

...Ryan Cecil Jobson This essay serves as an introduction to the special section “States of Crisis.” Principally a meditation on political and ecological crisis in the Caribbean, this introduction revisits two concurrent events—the devastation of The Bahamas by Hurricane Dorian, and the arrival...