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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 152–162.
Published: 01 November 2010
...David Scott This essay critically engages aspects of Susan Buck-Morss' much acclaimed Hegel, Haiti and Universal History . While appreciating Buck-Morss' scepticism of Europe's presumption of authoritative self-knowledge, the essay raises two principal doubts: the first concerns whether indeed...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 35–51.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Revolution as a question of “universal history.” © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Haiti theory exceptionalism Black Jacobins universal history What is the contemporary “theory-problem” about Haiti? To phrase it somewhat differently, What is the conceptual conundrum or the ideological problem-space...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 84–94.
Published: 01 November 2023
... that the book offers a methodology of writing history, both in terms of the periodic expanse of such a history and positing the historical problematic. She argues that Rodney produces a universal history insofar as universality is assumed in the social relations of exploitation and consequently solidarities...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 163–172.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Sibylle Fischer Can we coherently conjugate high philosophy and slave insurgency under the heading of “universal history”? Is it possible to disentangle “universal history” from its roots in white supremacy and European imperial reason? Susan Buck-Morss' recent answer to that question, which...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 173–185.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Susan Buck-Morss Responding to commentaries on Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History by Sibylle Fischer and David Scott, this essay describes universal history as “theoretical pragmatics,” a practice of theorizing that undermines established narratives. Focusing on the singularity of historical...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 166–181.
Published: 01 November 2013
...—a history best seen from the experience of Caribbean societies and peoples. Third, that anthropology has the capacity to provide us with the necessary moral optimism to rethink the relation between plurality and universalism that grounds the human condition, but to do so we must first rescue the concepts...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 73–78.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Nadia Ellis This essay reflects on Carolyn Cooper’s research on Afro-Jamaican feminisms via literary history, literary criticism, and cultural studies and her use of that research in various pedagogical spaces. The author’s approach is personal and layered, working primarily through memories...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 193–202.
Published: 01 November 2013
... standards of presumably universal human relevance. Trouillot's important intervention in Western conceptions of history and historiography in Silencing the Past notwithstanding, the essay argues that the distinction he draws between “historicity 1” and “historicity 2” betrays his struggle with the continued...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 186–197.
Published: 01 July 2012
...Eddie Chambers In considering Kobena Mercer's four-volume edited series Annotating Art's Histories (2004–8), Eddie Chambers sets out to critique the often unspoken but nevertheless hegemonic and complicated racial hierarchies that exist across many of the country's universities, with particular...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 95–116.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., the author first discusses Rodney’s engagements with the University of California, Los Angeles, as part of a longer history of Black intellectual and political activism and the geographies of Black radicalism on campus. The author then explores the question of methodology in Rodney’s book, especially...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 195–205.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in Canada,” Journal of African American History 92, no. 4 (2007): 516–39; “Liberation from Below: The Caribbean Conference Committee and the Global New Left” (master’s thesis, University of Montreal, 2007); “In Search of a National Identity: C. L. R. James and the Promise of the Caribbean,” in James, You...
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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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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 106–114.
Published: 01 July 2016
... a multilayered international network in the region to overcome divisions and boundaries produced by the history of neo/colonialism and the cold war. Over the past sixteen years, the journal work has generated an archive of knowledge, a society, and a consortium of institutions to organize a biennial conference...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): vii–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of Hegel by way of the Haitian Revolution” (227). Now, to my mind, this is a very doubtful inspiration. I have written elsewhere that the assumptions that shape Buck-Morss’s Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History are unpersuasive, to say the least. 9 But more importantly, perhaps, what is to be noted...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2019
..., and Reenslavement in Hispaniola, 1789–1809 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016). 40 Johnhenry Gonzalez, “A Sharper Focus on the Early Modern Caribbean,” Reviews in American History 45, no. 2 (2017): 236–41. 41 Nessler, Islandwide Struggle for Freedom , 64. 42 Robbie...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 186–188.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Contributors Susan Buck-Morss is Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca. She is a member of the graduate fields of comparative literature, German studies, and the history of art and visual studies, and teaches in the School of Art...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 57–71.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Negritude in relation to Marxist concepts of universal history will be necessary, given the degree to which it frames critical approaches to the work of Césaire and Senghor. Sartre argues that Negritude is an essentially poetic movement, an offshoot and continuation of surrealism that offers a means...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2018
...., 363. See also Claudio Guillén on the silva as “an invitation to form.” Claudio Guillén, Literature as System: Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971), 109; cited in De Bruyn, “The Classical Silva,” 349. 46 Peter Shaw, ed...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 1–21.
Published: 01 November 2012
...: Indiana University Press, 2002), 207–20; and Sibylle Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), 242–44. 3 See Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “An Unthinkable History,” in Silencing the Past: Power...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 17–33.
Published: 01 July 2024
... to write plays about Vodou, James seems to imply; however, the methodologies, critical limits, and ethics of this claim remain to be explored. While James’s classic history The Black Jacobins —written in 1938 and revised in 1963—exemplifies Haiti as a “theory-problem of universal history...