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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
... unique incursions into the theoretical productivity of water was his development of tidalectics . First presenting them in 1983, Brathwaite conceived of tidalectics as Caribbean people's “native version of Eurodialectics.” 9 Brathwaite's concept emphasizes circulation. Rather than imposing...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 111–123.
Published: 01 March 2022
... ; and Elegguas and his unpublished third poetry trilogy, Missa Solemnis , Rwanda Poems , and Dead Man Witness , commemorating and trying to rise beyond what he called his “cultural lynching.” The essay looks at Brathwaite’s online/print Sycorax voice and the politico-philosophico-cultural concept of tidalectics...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 102–107.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Pathfinder: Black Awakening in “The Arrivants” of Kamau Brathwaite . 10 A week later on 21 February, the day of Kamau’s funeral, I put on tidalectical blue in keeping with my emotions; I was feeling blue as I made my way to James Street Methodist Church in Bridgetown to be a pallbearer at Kamau’s funeral...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
Published: 01 July 2021
... comprises a Caribbean ontology of soundscape as multiplicity where noises convey purpose to the listener as drumbeats, dialogue, whispers, shouts, commands, and, for Brathwaite, the sounds of water, alternately consoling and menacing. This invokes Brathwaite’s neologism “tidalectic,” a repurposing...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 178–185.
Published: 01 November 2021
... in the anthropological “hope boom” that insists on reading anticipation as hope? 18 Caribbean thought has a rich history of engaging with temporalities, from Kamau Brathwaite’s tidalectics to David Scott’s questioning of postcolonial futurities to Deborah Thomas’s recent work on the simultaneity of time. 19...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 145–164.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., explicitly and implicitly, asks how we can make everything whole. The spiritual and the physical or earthly, the human and the other than human, the worldly and the cosmic. To live most fully, we need to live in dialogue with all the universe. His term tidalectic is an alternative to Hegelian dialectic...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 138–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
... —and over the course of the poem, this verbal exorcism is shown to be necessary but insufficient, as the decolonization of the mind is an often painful process, never linear, tidalectic (to use Kamau Brathwaite's term), where the subject encounters historical and psychic obstacles that thwart or call...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 90–104.
Published: 01 November 2018
... to, and question unintended or unjust relationships. Kamau Brathwaite points to these interactions of back and forth and change—dynamic landscapes—as tidalectic processes through which the past, present, and future coalesce in creative and provocative ways. 23 In a poignant interview as part of Stephanie...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 59–71.
Published: 01 November 2012
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18 Wilson Harris, “Apprenticeship to the Furies,” River City: A Journal of Contemporary Culture 16, no. 2 (1996): 110.
19 Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s notion of “the repeating island” and Kamau Brathwaite’s “tidalectics” obviously echo Harris
here. Antonio Benítez-Rojo, The Repeating...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., for the introduction she gave me to so many writers of the African diaspora. One love. The plantation, transculturation, creolization, tidalectics, opacity, erotic marronage. Frantz Fanon, C. L. R. James, Sylvia Wynter, Aimé Césaire, Wilson Harris, Kamau Brathwaite. The concepts emergent and given shelter...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 43–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of contemporary cultural studies— hegemony , discourse , articulation , governmentality —Caribbean cultural thought presents the plantation , creolization , transculturation , erotic marronage , and tidalectics , and proffers searching questions to complacent theories of Western modernity and cultural...
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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
... lianedialectique de Suzanne Césaire et la tidalectics de Kamau Brathwaite,” 356–66. ...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 20–38.
Published: 01 March 2024
...: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009), 148. See also Elizabeth DeLoughrey and Tatiana Flores, “Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art,” Environmental Humanities 12, no. 1 (2020): 132–66. Stacy Alaimo...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 124–144.
Published: 01 March 2022
... (tidalectics?) of discourse had changed from the original concern with defining an aesthetic to the post-Bogotá 1977 UNESCO concern with designing a regional cultural policy for the Caribbean and Latin America. Kamau’s old and never-to-be-abandoned preoccupation with the location of Africa in both diasporan...
