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Of Race: The Exorbitant Du Bois

Barnor Hesse
Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 14–27.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3626728
Published: 01 July 2016
... of struggling with the undecidability of race, particularly how to locate and define it relationally as an impersonal white social force with politically destructive affects for black populations. These early conceptual contours of Du Bois's struggle over the political meaning of race in the face...
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Still Life

Richard Iton
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 22–39.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665416
Published: 01 March 2013
... of the epistemological. There is, then, as Hall suggests, some sort of intriguing play between these two conceptions, and it points to the sorts of ambiguity and undecidability that have marked the last six or seven decades (and, more broadly, “black life”). That said, the precise contours of the uncertainties...
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The Politically Unimaginable in Black Marxist Thought

Minkah Makalani
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985654
Published: 01 July 2018
... find a radical poetics capable of guiding us into an unknown, undecided future. This would seem to be what Suzanne Césaire is after when she identifies the arts as providing humanity its only “access road toward this other enticing world.” 60 It seems hardly coincidental that C. L. R. James saw...
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Of Celestinas and Saints, or Deconstructing the Myths of Dominican Womanhood

Elizabeth S. Manley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 72–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985771
Published: 01 July 2018
... in this decision. Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 futurity political imagination Fanonian leap undecidability decolonial turn ...
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Essayism and the Multiplication of Possibility in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes

Christy Wampole
Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 35–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378910
Published: 01 November 2013
... this analysis, destabilizes any foregone conclusions about almost anything, from national identity to gender to the distinction between the real and the imagined. This novel provokes through its emphasis on undecidability. It permits meditative interrogations on the aforementioned issues and remains a “novel...
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Come, We Go Burn Down Babylon: A Report on the Cathedral Murders and the Force of Rastafari in the Eastern Caribbean

Glenn A. Elmer Griffin
Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-3-1
Published: 01 October 2006
... that they will have to address the court. Defense counsel has been undecided about putting them on the stand where they can be cross-examined, but has chosen at the very last moment to take a gamble and allow them to make unsworn statements from the dock. The gamble rests in the hope...
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The Resistance of the Lost Body

Nijah Cunningham
Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3481402
Published: 01 March 2016
... to suggest that it is impossible to interpret this document, I am arguing that there is no way around the inconclusiveness and undecidability that structure the manuscript. Some scholars might object to my suggestion that the text is incomplete and, instead, insist that the annotations and marginalia...
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On Ecstatic-Aesthetic Universality—In Zong!

Daniel Benjamin
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7374418
Published: 01 March 2019
... community.” For Derrida, a paradoxical statement of community such as this “does not signify haziness and mobility, the confusion preceding knowledge or renouncing all truth”: “If it is undecidable and without truth in its own moment[,] . . . this is in order that it might be a condition of decision...
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Deconstructing Nationalisms: Henry Swanzy, Caribbean Voices and the Development of West Indian Literature

Glyne Griffith
Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 1–20.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-5-2-1
Published: 01 September 2001
..., the succinct description of deconstruction’s raison d’être as supplied by Gayatri Spivak in her preface to Derrida’s Of Grammatology: “To locate the promising marginal text, to disclose the undecidable moment, to pry it loose with the positive lever of the signifi er; to reverse...
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Flow and Arrest

Huey Copeland
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 205–224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3341789
Published: 01 November 2015
... emphasized the contingency and constructedness, the fundamental undecidability of the signifier. Yet more than merely exulting in the multiplicity of the racial mark, African American poststructuralist thinkers posited blackness itself as both the prime figure of and ground for the aporias of Western...
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The Birth of “Quow”: Michael McTurk and the Minstrel Origins of the Civic Tradition of Creole Verse

Ben Etherington
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 31–51.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211836
Published: 01 November 2022
... actually consulting and making a confidential adviser in the matter of a Governor of a neighbouring Colony. . . . With a weak and undecided Governor, and with a still weaker Government Secretary, the very skeleton and dry bones of official red-tapeism, without heart, soul, or brains, are we to sit idly...
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Transnationalism, Diaspora, Politics, and The Caribbean Postcolonial

Timothy Chin
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 189–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-189
Published: 01 February 2006
... to “abstract hybridity into an epistemological principle” (20). Puri contends that the use of hybridity as a “structure of undecidability” (for example, in Homi Bhabha) or a “principle of difference” that inter- rupts universalizing knowledges and the homogenizing claims of the nation serves...
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The “Contemporaneous Local” in Time: Problems of History in Shalini Puri's The Caribbean Postcolonial

Eleni Coundouriotis
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 198–205.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-198
Published: 01 February 2006
... to “abstract hybridity into an epistemological principle” (20). Puri contends that the use of hybridity as a “structure of undecidability” (for example, in Homi Bhabha) or a “principle of difference” that inter- rupts universalizing knowledges and the homogenizing claims of the nation serves...
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After the Fact: A Response to My Critics

Shalini Puri
Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 218–229.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-218
Published: 01 February 2006
... to “abstract hybridity into an epistemological principle” (20). Puri contends that the use of hybridity as a “structure of undecidability” (for example, in Homi Bhabha) or a “principle of difference” that inter- rupts universalizing knowledges and the homogenizing claims of the nation serves...
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Contributors

Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 230–232.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-10-1-230
Published: 01 February 2006
... hybridity into an epistemological principle” (20). Puri contends that the use of hybridity as a “structure of undecidability” (for example, in Homi Bhabha) or a “principle of difference” that inter- rupts universalizing knowledges and the homogenizing claims of the nation serves to displace “any...
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