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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2016
...David Scott © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 I vividly remember arriving at Sylvia Wynter's (then) home in Palo Alto, California, on the morning of 19 November 1999 (almost exactly sixteen years ago to the day I write this) to conduct my planned interview with her. 1 She greeted me at the door...
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The Hills of Hebron : Sylvia Wynter's Disruption of the Narrative of the Nation
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Shirley Toland-Dix Sylvia Wynter's 1962 novel, The Hills of Hebron , is both a narrative of the nation and critique of the extant vision of the nation. Writing her novel from the perspective of a theorist, Wynter introduces insights and concepts that she has since developed in her extensive body...
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From Mode of Production to Mode of Auto-Institution: Sylvia Wynter's Black Metamorphosis of the Labor Question
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Demetrius L. Eudell This essay illustrates how Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” reconceptualizes the question of labor as it relates to the history of blacks in the Americas and generally to the being of Being Human. It does so by situating Wynter's distinctive intervention within the context...
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Marronnons Let's Maroon: Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” As a Species of Maroonage
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Greg Thomas This essay reads Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” as a text that both examines and embodies maroonage, significantly, in various ways and on various levels. It takes off from Aimé Césaire's underacknowledged imperative, “Marronnons-nous,” recognizing and demonstrating the import...
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Sylvia Wynter's Theory of the Human and the Crisis School of Caribbean Heteromasculinity Studies
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Tonya Haynes This essay traces the rise of the crisis school of Caribbean heteromasculinity studies through a critical reading across popular writing, policy research, and scholarly work on Caribbean masculinity. Mobilizing insights that Sylvia Wynter articulated in “Black Metamorphosis...
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“That Area of Experience That We Term the New World”: Introducing Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis”
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Aaron Kamugisha This essay introduces Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World,” an unpublished 900-plus-page manuscript written by Wynter in the 1970s. “Black Metamorphosis” is a remarkable manuscript, and it deserves close study for a number of reasons. It is arguably...
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Sylvia Wynter, circa late 1950s. Photograph by Oswald Jones. Used with perm...
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Published: 01 March 2016
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Sylvia Wynter on her birthday, Crogan's Restaurant, Oakland, 11 May 2015. P...
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Sylvia Wynter on her birthday, Crogan's Restaurant, Oakland, 11 May 2015. Photograph by Jack Dresnick. Used with permission
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Simarrona : Beyond Etymologies toward a Practice of Unlearning
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
... ; it foregrounds the instability of colonial grammars and their attendant binaries. The author pairs the poetic resistance with the colonial grammars of Sylvia Wynter, Aimé Césaire, and fahima ife, with the instability of simarrona in the archival record to propose a way of reading archives of marronage...
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The Boundary of Light: Buried Beings and Black Sacred Geographies
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., thus—to use Sylvia Wynter’s term—“transplanting” their culture to the island. [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 William Berryman Black geographies obeah camera lucida provision ground This story begins in an unlikely place and time. The year was 2013...
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The Body and Performance in 1970s Jamaica: Toward a Decolonial Cultural Method
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 150–168.
Published: 01 March 2019
... colonial representations and create community in profound ways. Drawing on Sylvia Wynter’s work on colonial epistemologies and representation in relation to questions of race and decolonization and on Rex Nettleford’s discussion of embodiment and marronage, the author lays out a method of decolonial...
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Dread Dialectics
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... as a manifestation of the black radical tradition and a critical involvement with socialism. Drawing on C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, it argues that black freedom struggles in the Americas and Europe, including slave revolts, have been an essential part of the history of labor and freedom struggles. It also...
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Provision Grounds Against the Plantation: Robert Wedderburn’s Axe Laid to the Root
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 15–27.
Published: 01 March 2021
... grounds as a land commons that produce food sovereignty and communal identity. Then he represents the Jamaican Maroons’ local ecological knowledge as a source of resistance to plantation economies. Using Sylvia Wynter’s environmental theories of resistance, this essay argues that Wedderburn’s political...
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Abduction and the Grounds of Caribbean Reasoning
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
... demonstrates how by turning to two of the Caribbean’s major thinkers, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their far-less-studied Caribbean writings, Kamugisha takes seriously the centering of Caribbean thinkers in their own histories of political becoming. The essay ends with sustained focus on Kamugisha’s...
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Within Earshot of Africa—Meditations on The Sound of Culture
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 159–171.
Published: 01 March 2018
... registers across distinctive histories. Following Chude-Sokei’s engagement with Sylvia Wynter, the essay begins with the centrality of women’s engagements with technologies for mobility featured in African popular print magazines in the era of independence. Turning to a contemporaneous publication, Langston...
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Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Mimi Sheller This essay reviews Aaron Kamugisha’s reading of the works of C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter in his 2019 book Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition . Kamugisha issues a resounding call to reenergize the radical Caribbean intellectual...
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Not Dead Yet: Carrying History in a Song of Jamaica
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 55–68.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Katherine McKittrick’s and Sylvia Wynter’s work on plantation geographies, the author argues that the gulley, a site of mass burial in the center of the song, was also a site of Black cultural expression and futurity—a place where death and life, torture and escape, enslavement and freedom collided...
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Rebellion/Invention/Groove
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 79–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Katherine McKittrick This essay studies Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” and draws attention to the ways plantocratic systems generated black creative activities that rebelled against the tenets of white supremacy and its attendant order of consciousness. Building on Wynter's insights...
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The Resistance of the Lost Body
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Nijah Cunningham As the recent revival of Sylvia Wynter's scholarship has commanded the attention of a younger generation of scholars, the special section of Small Axe dedicated to her “forgotten” work provides an occasion to reconsider the prehistory to her theory of the human. Rather than simply...
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The Black Experience of New World Coloniality
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 129–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Sylvia Wynter on her birthday, Crogan's Restaurant, Oakland, 11 May 2015. Photograph by Jack Dresnick. Used with permission ...
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