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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2015
... in reflecting on where we are speaking from, but also when we are speaking from, as a question of temporality and generational positioning. Caribbean theorists, writers, artists, and activists offer us productive theoretical interrogations of the convergent and divergent crossroads that constitute “now...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 190–200.
Published: 01 July 2024
... to theorize both the logics of subjection that coloniality instantiates, and the “prefiguring” of a potential interruption in their operativity. Finally, it studies the experience of waiting as a particularly revealing determination of the temporality of colonial existence that is especially recurrent...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 178–185.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Rivke Jaffe This review essay enters into conversation with Greg Beckett’s 2019 There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince to think through the geographies and temporalities of how crisis is known. Focusing on the urban Caribbean, it interrogates broadly circulating...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Jason Frydman This essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s temporality, futurity, and ideological conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 144–152.
Published: 01 November 2022
... of the Grenada Revolution. As it highlights Lambert’s attention to Joan Purcell’s truncated temporal framing of the Grenada Revolution, the essay offers a close reading of Phyllis Coard’s memoir to elaborate the significance of temporality in literary representations of the revolution and to question how...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 67–77.
Published: 01 March 2023
... that De Kom’s narrative tackles in unique ways—and on the question of time. The author attempts to displace De Kom’s book away from its entanglement of political and intellectual connections and toward the diverse temporalities of Suriname’s decolonial struggles, seeking to explore what could be called...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 75–85.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Faith Smith Maureen Warner-Lewis’s extraordinary body of cultural criticism proposes a new temporal engagement with the place of the African continent in the Caribbean. Her work and career suggest some of the dispositions of the Mona Generation (UWI) of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Read against...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 123–130.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of self as Caribbean people. Washerwoman (2018), the sculpture featured in the essay, is the product of an attempt to know our progenitors through the labor of our hands, silently working alongside theirs, across temporalities. We mourn the blurred edges of their photographs and pay homage to the mundane...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 194–202.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of temporality in world history: how events in one conjuncture form enduring structures; how imperial power orders, and is reproduced by, ways of living in and thinking about time; and revolutionary time, in particular the Tricontinental moment. Rodney’s time conjuring was anchored both in that heroic 1960s...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 147–176.
Published: 01 November 2023
... between Indigenous spatio-temporalities of life and experience as they underwent forced conformity with a homogeneous, “empty” time and space underpinning Eurocentric ideas of capitalist progress as well as the advancement of communism/socialism; a critique of unilinear Development models; and How Europe...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 52–61.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to underscore that both temporalities were simultaneously at play—even among those who viewed themselves as sympathetic to transformations occurring in the then national culture. Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 interim time revolutionary time Jamaican 1970s literary history The 1970s...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 94–103.
Published: 01 July 2015
... of temporality. Through readings of the revolutionary performances of excess by Carmelita Tropicana, La Lupe, and Dolores “Lolita” Lebrón Sotomayor, the author explores the relationship between aesthetics and politics and the potential of anticolonial horizons. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 Caribbean time...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2015
... for the range of artists as the subjects of the book. She discusses “timing” and temporality as the central narrative for Wainwright in researching Caribbean art as transnational and comments on the implications and limitations of the publication in addressing the complexity of contemporary Caribbean visual art...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 177–184.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Michelle Stephens This assessment of Leon Wainwright's recent monograph, Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (2011), focuses on the temporal dimensions of Caribbean art production and reception, including the reception of Caribbean art in the United Kingdom and United States as being...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 90–102.
Published: 01 November 2012
... experiences of her protagonist forces a fundamental rethinking of the psyche, historical evidence, and the temporal relationship of the present to the past. Her novel suggests that silences in the written records are not only absences to be filled with new historical data but also spaces of affect , which...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 1–21.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of an irreducible temporal relation to the colonial, something more complex and reparative than the after-killing or “postcolonial.” 72 Geoffrey Bennington, “Being and the Other,” in Jacques Derrida (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 310. 73 Mbembe, On the Postcolony , 16–17; and Achille...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 198–212.
Published: 01 July 2012
... difference. Ultimately, he contends, annotating black cultural production—and exploring its implications for subjects on all sides of the color line—means thinking seriously about how we constitute our objects of study as well as the methodological techniques we employ to narrate their material and temporal...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 144–160.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of hegemonic European temporality. Figure 1 “Come into the house honey, dat picture man’ll steal you”; 1904–5. Photographer unknown. Hanna McCormick Collection, Prints and Photographs, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Figure 1. “Come into the house honey, dat picture man’ll steal you”; 1904–5...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 31–52.
Published: 01 November 2020
... but rather as a flexible tool employed to face situations of economic and institutional precariousness, extending the outcomes of each project beyond its original temporality and audience. © 2020 Small Axe, Inc. 2020 artistic labor art biennials Caribbean art collaborative art the Dominican...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2020
... by calling our attention in this way to their time or the distinctive temporality of their experience? With whom were they contemporary, and with whom were they not? I do not know that these are questions to which there are self-evident answers. True, in a straightforward art historical sense...
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