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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 138–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
... —the black, the Amerindian, and the French—and Césaire specified that “[Ours] is a community forged out of suffered oppression, imposed exclusion and discrimination. And, to its honor, it is also a community of continued resistance, of stubborn struggle and of indomitable hope.” 56 In Notebook...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 61–79.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Maria Cristina Fumagalli; Peter L. Patrick Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Two Healing Narratives:
Suffering, Reintegration,
and the Struggle of Language
Maria Cristina Fumagalli and Peter L. Patrick
Obviously, when you enter language
you enter a kind of choice which contains...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 22–38.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Elizabeth McAlister Juxtaposing two audiospheres (the Haitian streets after the 2010 earthquake and the “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon), this essay brings together scholarship on the visuality of suffering with work on music and emotion in order to explore the links between singing and knowledge...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 199–207.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Kaiama L. Glover The 2010 earthquake has given rise to and put into wide(r) circulation a narrative very much of a piece with the long-standing discourse of Haitian singularity. This recent, though not new, narrative is premised not only on the notion of Haiti's endless suffering but also...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2024
... genre whose relationship to suffering reflects a responsible and liberating way of existing in the world. [email protected] Gordon Lewis R. , Fear of Black Consciousness ; New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2022 ; 288 pages; ISBN 978-0374159023 (hardback) © Small Axe, Inc...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 140–150.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Régine Michelle Jean-Charles This essay takes two images of Haitian girls in Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being as a point of departure to reflect on the iconography of Haitian suffering. It argues that Sharpe’s claim that the Haitian girl in the photo taken in the aftermath...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
Published: 01 November 2018
... the ghostly referent for inequalities facing nonblack children. Poor, disabled, English-language learners and students of color are, generally, more often talked about as suffering “like” black children. Black children are both the spectacle and the specters of educational discourse and juvenile justice...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
... is documenting the child abuse and homophobic violence she suffered. This essay makes visible the connections between physical punishments during slavery (with particular reference to “The History of Mary Prince”), practices of child abuse and homophobic violence in Jamaica, and contemporary modes of recognizing...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 181–190.
Published: 01 March 2022
... broader story about the struggles of reproducing Black life in the postcolonial present—a moment where far too many fall prey to what Lewis describes as “sufferation”: an inescapable poverty that breeds misery, frustration, and vexation (1). And here is where I would like to make a brief intervention...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 1–18.
Published: 01 October 2006
... hangings, now spruced up with busts of famous St. Lucians and renamed Walcott
Square. In his poem about his boyhood in this place, Walcott declared that he would contain
himself against the suffering here, saying nothing of it, “Until I have learnt to suffer / In
accurate iambics.”2 He never allowed...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 191–204.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of postemancipation Jamaican political-economic under-development. The Caribbean’s spatial fix in this history produced what I termed sufferation—a political-economic ontological condition of chronic and structural impoverishment from which only a radical departure could break Jamaicans free. The scammer crew...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 134–149.
Published: 01 March 2019
... cultural politics Jamaica Rastafari 1970s sufferation dub poetry consciousness identity While this essay is a contribution to a fascinating and timely conversation about Jamaica and the 1970s, I take the view that a decade is not just a ten-year period. The 1970s, in my opinion, extended well...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 163–168.
Published: 01 March 2022
... (spoiler: it is “yes” in both cases) not quite so interesting as the routes by which Lewis gets to them. Key to the journey is a theorization of “sufferation” that is performed in the book through Lewis’s proximity to and distance from Dwayne, Omar, and Junior. From the outset the young men force Lewis...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 119–123.
Published: 01 October 2008
... an occupation (of Liberia or Sierra Leone, for example): it
would, rather, be a profound poetics of the historical sufferings of the Africas and of the shared
knowledge of the world.
These characteristics would appear even more remarkable in thatNotebook found a second
life, from...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 22–43.
Published: 01 July 2017
... [ sansibilizasyon ]. 2 With this mural, Jerry aspired to unify the afflicted not only by recognizing their shared suffering but also by responding to their common search for resolution to that unanswerable question: “Why?” He also offered a strident call for aid, to both God and those with power, namely...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 171–180.
Published: 01 November 2018
... between what I am calling care and state-imposed regimes of violence and surveillance. The work of what I imagine, theorize, and activate as practices of care is not to extend suffering or to make the one suffering at one with the nation-state or institution inflicting that suffering. It would...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 178–185.
Published: 01 November 2021
...” (106). How should we understand the temporalities, the “when” of crisis, if it is a chronic condition? 20 Jovan Lewis’s analysis of scamming as repair for sufferation and Alana Osbourne’s work on “time-tricking” in Kingston could be considered as exceptions; see Scammer’s Yard , 58, 158...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 50–63.
Published: 01 November 2015
... and implications of tragedy in Colère . Here, I understand tragedy both as a dramatic genre with specific and codified conventions and, more broadly, as a strain of literary writing concerned with the depiction and interpretation of human suffering. 24 First, the structure of classical tragedy...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 34–51.
Published: 01 October 2007
... and participants through a
framework of social pathology that had a racial dimension.26 There were at least two recur-
ring themes in the articles: 1) skin bleaching is the manifestation of a mental illness, and 2)
bleachers suffer from low self-esteem and/or a racial identity crisis, which is an outcome...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 25–36.
Published: 01 November 2009
... in Longoué.
In striking contrast to the freedom attached to Longoué’s marronnage, Béluse accepts
enslavement on the Senglis plantation, losing all notion of personal liberty and history. The
name the slave owner’s wife Marie-Nathalie selects for Béluse is emblematic of the degrada-
tion he suffers...
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