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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 68–80.
Published: 01 July 2017
... as both naïvely optimistic and visionary, in some ways reminiscent of romanticism. In Nanan's work, one finds many expressions of late-eighteenth-century romantic artists: “a return to nature, … a belief in the goodness of humanity, the promotion of justice for all, and a strong belief in the senses...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 195–207.
Published: 01 March 2019
... evaluated their circumstances and what might they have been thinking? The essay also examines the paratexts that have evolved from Freedom’s Mirror , specifically those that expand Ferrer’s research on the free black artist José Antonio Aponte. The Digital Aponte and Visionary Aponte projects explore...
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in “He Was a Lion, and He Would Destroy Much”: A Speculative School of Revolutionary Politics
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 1 Clara Morera, The Preboste Juan , 2017. Mixed media on canvas, 72 × 48 in. From the Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom exhibit; Little Haiti Cultural Center, New York University, and Duke University, 2017–18. Courtesy of the artist
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in “He Was a Lion, and He Would Destroy Much”: A Speculative School of Revolutionary Politics
> Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 2 Marielle Plaisir, Aponte Lámina 23 , from The Book of Life , 2017 (variation on Lámina 23 from Aponte’s book of paintings). Inks, gold pigment, and pencil on 350g paper; 20 × 15 in. From the Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom exhibit; Little Haiti Cultural Center, New York
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 73–82.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Veerle Poupeye This paper examines the Intuitives concept and the controversies that have surrounded this artistic genre in Jamaica. It argues that Intuitive art, as it has been defined by the National Gallery of Jamaica, constitutes a specialized canon within the national canons, rather than...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 220–228.
Published: 01 March 2019
... each approaching Aponte’s image of, say, Diogenes and Isis. 18 The other collaborative project is titled Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom , a contemporary art exhibit cocurated by Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval Carrié and me. We invited fifteen contemporary artists to interact...
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Créolité and the Regime of Visibility: Reading Les neuf consciences du Malfini by Patrick Chamoiseau
Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 115–125.
Published: 01 March 2018
... visionary optic mode took over. Dominique Chancé rightly argues that in novels such as Biblique des derniers gestes and Un dimanche au cachot , Chamoiseau had shifted into an entirely new literary mode by means of baroque, fantastic writing. 12 The same is true for Les neuf consciences du Malfini...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 94–103.
Published: 01 July 2015
... slumber, is heavy, though, and asks us to reveal our deepest convictions to those already perhaps deafened and blinded by life. So how do visionaries painlessly exhale in spaces tightly woven by “the totalizing rendering of reality”? How does the idealist learn to do more than just breathe? How does...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 124–127.
Published: 01 October 2008
... of the resurgence of will and consciousness on the part of the black race in the twentieth
century, a phenomenon that we now associate with Negritude, as concept and movement, of
which the First Congress of Negro Writers and Artists was a high point—the very congress
whose fiftieth anniversary we’re...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 89–98.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Gabrielle Civil; Rosamond S. King What does it mean to embody the Caribbean as performance/art? In this coolaborative essay, two Caribbean women artists respond to this question in a dynamic dialogue of text and images. Each has individually performed at and been exhibited in more than fifty venues...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2017
... by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam, was a visionary without equal. Thoughtful, unassuming, always juggling a thousand things, he maintained a devotion to the rationalities of constitutional law that never blinded him to the demands of reasons of state. My hope was to write a book on the making of the modern...
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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 (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 127–133.
Published: 01 November 2021
... that is homegrown to the region: “The Caribbean environment demands its own style, vocab, its own norms; and I’m saying that these demands (should) challenge the scholar/intellectual as deeply as they do the artist, and that this creole aesthetic cannot be adequately developed outside the Caribbean; not even...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 102–107.
Published: 01 November 2011
... in the literary imagination of the
Caribbean. From the outset, Glissant was never inclined to write about himself or to see “the
writer” in heroic, visionary terms. As he states in Caribbean Discourse, “The author must
be demythified: certainly, because he must be integrated into a common resolve. The ‘we...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 61–83.
Published: 01 September 2004
... was the agency charged with the island s administration. Th e Special Case of Puerto Rico, Th e Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920 1970 (New York: Th e Bronx Museum of the Arts in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1988), 73. 6. For example, island residents do not pay US federal...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
Published: 01 July 2016
... in the cohesion of surrealism as an artistic, social, and political movement. 24 Throughout her life, Césaire remained a visionary and, in her writing, articulated an awareness of the complexity of Caribbean identity that was far ahead of her time. Sharpley-Whiting describes Césaire's “liberatory poetics...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 85–100.
Published: 01 March 2022
... it was difficult. In terms of my writing, I always keep journals that are directly related to the work. I think about these journals as an artist’s notebook, where you do sketches and you’re working out ideas. For instance, in Zong! there are quotations from a journal that I was keeping and that is specially...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2021
... Dessalines, unknown artist, Capois Street, Port-au-Prince, 2019. Photograph by Reynier Leyva Novo Figure 5. PetroCaribe stencil with little Dessalines, unknown artist, Capois Street, Port-au-Prince, 2019. Photograph by Reynier Leyva Novo Figure 1 “Le poème tué” graffiti, artist unknown at the time...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
... and revered by their homeland compatriots in such a magnificent way. Pérez-Rosario categorically establishes how the Burgos that we know today became a cultural icon and an inspiration to other writers, artists, filmmakers, musicians, intellectuals, and activists of myriad progressive causes and groups...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Peter James Hudson This essay unearths and recovers the Caribbean films and photographs made by New York School artist Rudy Burckhardt in the 1930s and 1940s. It argues that Burckhardt's work, especially his 1937 experimental film Haiti , deserves to be considered as part of a Caribbean visual...
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