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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 116–126.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and quite frankly for all the Americas. We have become cautious of political programs and agendas, of grand narratives and big theories and proclamations of how we might be made free, all of them greeted and influenced by a postmodern and poststructural skepticism and ridicule in a post-1960s world...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 186–192.
Published: 01 October 2006
...Idara Hippolyte Small Axe Incorporated 2006 Un-Theory
Idara Hippolyte
Sound Clash announces itself on page two as the culmination of Carolyn Cooper’s reflections
on Jamaican dancehall since her inaugural 1989 essay, “Slackness Hiding from Culture.”1 As
such, it invites...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 June 2008
... of historical narrative and discursive inventiveness. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 On the Impossibility of All Possibility
in Caribbean Theory
José F. Buscaglia-Salgado
Ab s t r a c t : Silvio Torres-Saillant’s passionate defense of Caribbean intellectual traditions is far from
being...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 5–19.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of dissonance also echoed on the other side of the Atlantic. Like d'Escherny, many slaveholders and sympathizers accentuated the theory and practice divide to frame Rousseau's or, in general, the philosophes' condemnations of slavery as metaphors for intra-European political servitude or exercises...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 20–36.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Jeannine Murray-Román In the early 1990s, chaos theory captured the imagination of Caribbean writers by offering a new approach to interpreting scientific data. In its analysis of Edouard Glissant's Poétique de la Relation alongside Antonio Benítez-Rojo's introduction to The Repeating Island...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
...David Scott This essay inquires into the uses of Haiti and its revolution as emblematic for contemporary theory. It raises a question about the new “philosophic” construction of Haiti—and its revolution—as an originary or exemplary moment of “human rights,” less to impugn universality as such than...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
... studies positions itself outside both feminism and queer theory, insofar as it is “dedicated to the revitalization of a ‘true manhood.’” 25 My use of the term heteromasculinity studies borrows this insight into the way such studies position themselves against feminism, feminist theory, and queer...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 188–198.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Rachel Douglas This review engages with fundamental questions regarding postcolonial canon formation and the marginalization of the Haitian Spiralist writers, the theory-centrism of postcolonial criticism, and “showing” versus “telling”—issues raised by Kaiama L. Glover's Haiti Unbound . Using...
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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
...Natalie Catasús While scholarship on Suzanne Césaire has illuminated the critical role of ecopoetics in her writing, the strong psychoanalytic resonances that underpin her theory of Caribbean aesthetics and identity remain underexplored. This essay suggests that these resonances must be read...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 97–111.
Published: 01 March 2019
... archive for documenting WPJ’s dogmas, theories, and sense of politics. 24 That sense of politics, drawing on our knowledge and lived experience of postindependence Jamaica, was stifled by dogmas based on the idea of a revolutionary vanguard of the working-class party. As the self-criticisms of the late...
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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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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2016
..., Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory (2014), addresses some of these anxieties in a critical assessment of social thought, subaltern insurgencies, and the politics of radical intellectuals in the Commonwealth Caribbean. While the collection affirms Meeks's confidence...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 103–118.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Rae Ann Meriwether In this essay, Meriwether argues that Erna Brodber's representation of Vodou, spiritism, and blues music in her novel Louisiana illuminates a shared praxis among Afro-diasporic subjects that forms the basis of their viable political community. Using Houston A. Baker Jr.'s theory...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 55–69.
Published: 01 March 2018
... establishes connections between Puerto Ricans and Dominicans through an understanding of their shared marginalization as black subjects. This has important implications for African diaspora theory, which has typically neglected Puerto Rican and Dominican engagements with blackness. Calderón disrupts two...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and intellectual contributions of theories of relationality and decolonial feminisms by women of color should be understood as theoretical and methodological tools for approaching some of the most peripheralized Afro-diasporic works. To that end, it examines the histories and the interconnected literary...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 96–102.
Published: 01 March 2020
... intervention in theories of nationalism produced by the past projects of federation and the possible futures they give rise to. The essays collected in this special section—key interventions on the Spanish Caribbean Confederation projects in the nineteenth century and the West Indies Federation...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., decolonize the terms of literary value. The author illuminates the centrality of literary infrastructure to Caribbean literary history through a reparative critique of Pascale Casanova’s theory of the world literary marketplace in dialogue with reflections by a contemporaneous set of highly influential...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 50–68.
Published: 01 July 2021
... orisha rituals to patakíes (Afro-Cuban oral tradition), over a reappropriated plantational space in which black sensuality contests negative biopolitical forms. Rolando not only draws from transnational critical race theory to address the myth of Latin American exceptionalism, she also challenges Michel...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 176–193.
Published: 01 July 2022
...)considerations of the senses, it additionally critiques several foci of contemporary aesthetic and cultural theory and production, such as the current fashion of hyperbolizing aesthesis and poiesis as salvific and unquestionably relational in lieu of reckoning with ethical questions of reading, the perilous...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 133–148.
Published: 01 June 2008
... the Marcelins' prescient novel and addresses its critics in light of critical theory and ethnography. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 ...
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