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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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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2015
.... 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, Cinepoetry...
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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. My lifelong friend, the wonderful Barbadian Scottish artist Alberta Whittle, reminded...
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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
... with surrealism and her more camouflaged engagement with Freudian psychoanalysis. Taken together, these threads reveal Césaire’s vision of Caribbean art as a collaborative rather than conquest-oriented relation between the self and the environment. The essay ultimately argues that Césaire’s investigations...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
Published: 01 July 2016
...” (“The Malaise of a Civilization”), Tropiques 5 (1942); “1943: Le surréalisme et nous” (“1943: Surrealism and Us”), Tropiques 8–9 (1943); “Le grand camouflage” (“The Great Camouflage”), Tropiques 13–14 (1945). 3 Sharpley-Whiting, Negritude Women , 17. 4 It is unclear whether Césaire was born...
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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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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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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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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
...-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 of the intervention he makes that seem...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 138–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
... into and variously decried for an alleged racial essentialism, a romanticization of a mythic African totality, an exclusive use of French (which supposedly demonstrates its capitulation to colonial mentalities), suspect ties to surrealism (and hence to the West), and an ultimate political futility. Yet...
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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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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 86–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
...-deconstructing.”) 7 As is so often the case, the attempt to understand a writer's legacy requires an attempt 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...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 78–89.
Published: 01 November 2014
... study and antiquities as well as commentary. 14 Clifford's dual media participate quite explicitly 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...
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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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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2019
..., it is exemplary of new directions in the writing of Negritude’s history that do not limit themselves to the works of its best-known figures or the consideration of predominantly European intellectual influences such as surrealism or Marxism. As scholarship expands the field of inquiry beyond the works...
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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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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 190–196.
Published: 01 July 2021
...), in Michael Richardson, ed., Refusal of the Shadow: Surrealism and the Caribbean , trans. Krzysztof Fijałkowski and Michael Richardson (London: Verso, 1996), 119. 4 See Aaron Kamugisha, ed., Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms (Kingston: Ian Randle, 2013...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 186–204.
Published: 01 November 2015
...-renunciation, inwardness, and collective disappearance? What is that? (Robin D. G. Kelley sees the change inspired by the black radical imagination as having roots in the surreal.) 35 Some observers, knowing the level of violence the situation warranted, and knowing too who ought to have been its proper...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 24–44.
Published: 01 November 2021
... magazine of La Poesía Sorprendida (1943–47), a movement influenced by surrealism that relied on poetic devices to evade and subvert the brutal regime of Rafael Trujillo (1930–61). 22 Through the use of allegory, metaphor, imagery, and symbolism, writers in this movement surprised, shocked, or awakened...
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