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Forêts del Sur and the Pretexts of Glissant's Tout-Monde
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2015
... and 401–31. 30 Ibid., 134. See also André Breton, “Manifeste du surréalisme (1924),” in Manifestes du surréalisme (Paris: Gallimard, 1966), 11–64; Clara Orban, The Culture of Fragments: Word and Images in Futurism and Surrealism (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997), 87–91; and Christophe Wall-Romana...
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Kamau at Ninety
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
Published: 01 March 2022
... further presents an account of the author’s attempt to shelter and represent this legacy in the form of Kamau at Ninety, a university course in Brathwaite’s honor, offered in the surreal months of January to May 2020. 12 Kamau Brathwaite, Trench Town Rock (Providence, RI: Lost Road, 1994). See Tracy...
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Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire: An Ecopoetic Theory of Caribbean Subjectivity
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 52–66.
Published: 01 November 2022
... herself as such. 26 Césaire, “1943: Surrealism and Us,” in The Great Camouflage , 38; hereafter cited in the text. Originally published as “1943: Le surréalisme et nous,” Tropiques , nos. 8–9 (October 1943): 14–18. 27 Dylan Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis...
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The Chicken Coup: A Distinctly Masculine Adventure for Distinctly Manly Men
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 89–99.
Published: 01 July 2019
.... But the bounty hunters get more than they bargained for when they finally come across the culprits—they discover that now the chickens abused by the poultry mogul are fighting back. Rich with feminist metaphor, this surreal short story emphasizes how even the most seemingly innocuous chicks can overcome...
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Beyond the Great Camouflage: Haiti in Suzanne Césaire's Politics and Poetics of Liberation
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
Published: 01 July 2016
... that is opposed to the emancipation of the spirit, of which the first indispensable condition is the liberation of man.” 25 In his essay, “Situation du surréalisme entre les deux guerres” (“Situation of Surrealism between the Two Wars”), published in VVV in 1943, Breton argues, “D'une guerre à l'autre...
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Queer Césaire
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., théâtre, essais et discours , ed. A. James Arnold (Paris: CNRS and Présence Africaine, 2013), 1617. 13 André Breton, “Second Manifesto of Surrealism” (1930), in Manifestoes of Surrealism , trans. and ed. Richard Seaver and Helen Lane (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969), 162–63...
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Revolutionary Genealogies: Suzanne Césaire's and Christiane Taubira's Writings of Dissent
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 91–101.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Breton as “l'initiateur de la plus extraordinaire révolution qui soit, puisqu'aussi bien elle engage plus que l'art.” 21 As with Frobenian ethnology, surrealism appealed to Césaire for its applicability beyond its immediate context, and this expansiveness emerges fully in “1943: Le surréalisme et...
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“If freedom writes no happier alphabet”: Martin Carter and Poetic Silence
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 43–62.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., it is worth considering the fi nal pages of Walter Benjamin’s “Surrealism: Th e Last
Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia” in order to help us account for Carter’s revo-
lutionary temper, his tendency toward silence, and his political disappointments during
the 1960s...
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Blending with Motifs and Colors: Haitian History Interpreted by Édouard Duval Carrié
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 109–123.
Published: 01 September 2005
... against the usurpation
of the marvelous via a decadent European surrealism.
In Haiti, young people hoped for more democracy and for participation of the people.
Th is hope died fast. Th e Centre d’Art and many artists who painted in the tradition of
the so-called naïve...
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Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 135–141.
Published: 01 November 2010
... been pretty stellar and the absurd. Whatever the Jacmel Carni-
in global terms. For me it is a case of How val lacks in sequins and sparkle, it makes up
Haiti reveals its History. I have visited some for in homegrown surrealism. This is people
Caribbean islands where it feels...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the emergence of the historical avant-garde movements in 1920s and 1930s Europe (futurism, Dadaism, surrealism, and so on). 4 Obviously, I can in no way, in the space to hand, do justice to the complex critical-historical argument at play in Bürger’s book. I intend only to flag certain dimensions...
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Césaire Reads Toussaint Louverture: The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Departmentalization
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 110–124.
Published: 01 March 2011
... with several members of his administration.25 In his account, Depestre wrote of Breton s contagious lyricism : The scandalous and subversive atmosphere that had characterized surrealism in the heroic period of its Parisian era was created at the Rex. From the moment André Breton began to speak, we knew...
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“Measured by the Compass of Suffering”: Reclaiming Negritude's Insurgent Dimension
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 138–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... 1 Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism , trans. Joan Pinkham (1955; repr., New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000), 42. 2 Aimé Césaire, “Presentation,” in Michael Richardson and Krzysztof Fijalkowski, eds. and trans., Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism in the Caribbean (New York: Verso...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 205–208.
Published: 01 September 2005
... of Gisèle
Pineau’s Th e Drifting of Spiritss (1999). He is currently at work on a manuscript entitled
“Surrealism in the Francophone Caribbean.”
Maxence Denis is a Haitian director and video artist whose work plays on the contrasts
between the moving images of video...
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Rethinking Aimé Césaire: Presentation
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 86–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to define that legacy, which then leads to a desire to reclaim that legacy from some other constituency (in this case, surrealism and Marxism) that might lead us to misconstrue the meaning of the work. There is nothing improper or sinister in this kind of reclamation project. On the contrary, I would...
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Tasks without Solutions: Why Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams Matters to Translation Culture and Caribbean Poetics
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... in the digraphia of a dream rebus at the core of Freud's work. Clifford's own body of work on surrealism and on the anthropologist's subjectivity are reminders of Freud's radical expansion of what is legible. Clifford remembers Freud because the latter's expansion of the archive has left its mark on cultural...
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The Theater of the Haitian Revolution the Haitian Revolution as Theater
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 16–23.
Published: 01 September 2005
... as a stage for a French theater company to perform a play by Jean Jacques
Rousseau. Th is magical representation of the collision of history and fantasy, real and
surreal, may provide a useful way to analyze recent events in Haiti. Th e bicentenary of the
Haitian Revolution has provided an occasion...
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Negritude’s Problem with History: The Case of Léonard Sainville
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2019
.... Sartre argues that Negritude is an essentially poetic movement, an offshoot and continuation of surrealism that offers a means of rehabilitating black subjectivity through an exploration of the tortured psyche of the colonial subject. Sartre writes that historical experience provides the basis for Pan...
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The Picturesque, Miss Nottage and the Caribbean Sublime
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 157–168.
Published: 01 February 2008
... and lengthy a debate to enter into here.
3. René Ménil, “Concerning Colonial Exoticism,” in Michael Richardson (ed.) Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and
the Caribbean (1959; reprint, London: Verso, 1996), 181.
168 | SX25 • The Picturesque, Miss Nottage and the Caribbean Sublime...
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Caribbean Freedom beyond Coloniality
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 190–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
... and retrieval project on Sylvia Wynter’s great unpublished manuscript, “Black Metamorphosis.” 5 3 Aimé Césaire, “Calling the Magician: A Few Words for a Caribbean Civilization” (1944), in Michael Richardson, ed., Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean , trans. Krzysztof Fijałkowski...
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