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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 127–136.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Madhavi Kale Small Axe Incorporated 2003 BOOK DISCUSSION: CIVILISING SUBJECTS
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867, Catherine Hall.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. ISBN 0-226-31334-4
Subject to Question: Empire and
Catherine...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 16–37.
Published: 01 February 2008
... that their individualism, though seemingly anomalous to diasporan thought, is in fact an “uncanny” product of the diasporan search for connections across borders. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Fracturing Subjectivities:
International Space and the
Discourse of Individualism in
Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 145–156.
Published: 01 February 2008
... historicity to the black population, ever unproblematically yield `black history'? Can black histories ever be built on fragile postcard infrastructures?” Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Caribbean Subjectivity
and the Colonial Archive
Beth Fowkes Tobin
Ab s t r a c t : This essay takes up...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 159–167.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Faith Smith Small Axe Incorporated 2003 How the English Became English:
Catherine Hall’s Civilising Subjects
Faith Smith
or some readers, Catherine Hall’s contention that metropole and colony helped to
constitute one another, in her massive new study of the Englishness...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
...M. Myrta Leslie Santana This essay considers the stories of Blaccucini and Ángel Daniel, two Black transgender drag performers from Cuba, and dwells on the relationship they imagine between their work as performers and their subjectivities as trans people. The author situates these narratives...
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Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire: An Ecopoetic Theory of Caribbean Subjectivity
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 52–66.
Published: 01 November 2022
... alongside her reflections on aesthetics—specifically, the relationship between art and nature—in order to elucidate a fuller picture of Césaire’s ecopoetic theory of Caribbean subject formation. The author examines Césaire’s writing on art and civilization within the context of her explicit engagement...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 190–200.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Ernesto Blanes-Martinez This review essay analyzes the problem of subjectivity in Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) from a phenomenological perspective. The essay argues that despite the absence of an explicit formulation, Colonial Debts relies on a theory...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 53–60.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Ángel A. Rivera This essay explores Eugenio María de Hostos’s and Ramón E. Betances’s notions of modern subjectivities, in the context of Romantic narratives, to index the fractures of collective and communal nationalist imaginaries within the Caribbean Confederation. Hostos and Betances were...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2012
...David Scott © Small Axe, Inc. 2012 Preface: Who Were the
Subjects of Slave Emancipation?
David Scott
They hanged him on a clement morning, swung
between the falling sunlight and the women’s
breathing, like a black apostrophe to pain.
All morning while the children hushed...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2011
... frustrates the possibilities of movement for the constituents of the larger community such urbane travelers represent. © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 Floating Islands: Spectatorship
and the Body Politic in the Traveling
Subjectivities of John Edgar
Wideman and Edwidge Danticat
Myriam J. A. Chancy...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2012
... and shared subjectivity mediated through history and grounded in consciousness and the transcendent. Through a discussion of Husserl's Lebenswelt, or lifeworld, Gabrielle Hezekiah explores Stoddart's journey of reflection and transformation as it is evidenced in her paintings, showing that the thematization...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 144–160.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of black subjects, especially on an island in which they had emancipated themselves in 1804 on one side and 1822 on the other. The second is an unease around rural spaces that refute productivity, surplus agriculture, and, as such, the teleological movement toward “modernity” that is the sine qua non...
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in Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 November 2021
Figure 3 Joos van Winghe, “Massacre of the Queen and Her Subjects,” 1598; from Bartolomé de las Casas, Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias ( A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies ), published by Theodor de Bry. Library of Congress
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 38–56.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Mindie Lazarus-Black The early history of legal education in the English-speaking Caribbean reflects a struggle for local identity and authenticity, while serving multiple states. Because schools are key locales for the making of docile bodies, West Indian lawyers experienced “subjection...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 100–122.
Published: 01 March 2023
... reveals the fundamental dualism between legal subjects and rightless bodies in the Dutch colonial context and how European law and the rights of citizens enabled the maximum exploitation of colonized and enslaved bodies. Contrary to universalist-inclusive and progressive notions of legal citizenship...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 142–151.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the line of an essentializing biological racial miscegenation frame and collapses the distance between racial positions of nonwhiteness and blackness. This critical review centers the socially constructed experience of black subjects and what Frantz Fanon refers to as the “fact of blackness.” It asks what...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 20–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
... on the processual—how diasporic subjects are “made” and what happens when the histories of colonialism cannot contain what they have made. This essay reads Lowe as a figure who experiences both a loss of subjectivity and a reconstruction of a self, home, and history. © Small Axe, Inc. 2012 Transgender, Memory...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
... legitimate subjects by the state. In contrast to research focused on homophobia in the Caribbean as largely a product of religious teachings or a relic of the Victorian era, this essay instead suggests that powerful histories of physical control and discipline influence contemporary beliefs about the “threat...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 34–56.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in a file labeled “Freak Letters,” it considers the difficulties of recovering historical subjects structured by imperial frameworks of productivity and perversity, tracing instead the counternarratives of mobility, affect, and self-determination that might have shaped this black woman’s life. Using...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 157–168.
Published: 01 February 2008
... the colonialist underpinnings of the picturesque subject, to surveying artistic and cultural forays into the particular landscapes, likenesses, and states of consciousness in the modern Caribbean, this essay spawns a view which claims for the region an aesthetic and conceptual insurgency in representational...
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