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Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 34–49.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Jason Frydman This essay decodes how Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings uses the history of Jamaican music, culminating in the conflict between roots reggae and dancehall, to chart the Cold War’s temporality, futurity, and ideological conflicts over time, temporality, and futurity...
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Whiteness as War by Other Means: Racial Complexity in an Age of Failed States
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 72–89.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Mike Hill This paper examines contemporary debates around the US Census, US National Security Strategy, and various documents of postmodern war doctrine to delineate a mutation in domestic social order that is consistent both with the end of civil rights and with US planetary ambition. At one level...
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Decolonizing the Married Woman
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 154–161.
Published: 01 March 2023
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Widening Horizons
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 51–71.
Published: 01 July 2023
... of my informants had been captured as war booty or kidnapped from their local environments to be enslaved and transferred to the West Atlantic, they had been freed from their captors by naval squadrons and thus landed as “liberated” either in St. Helena Island in the south Atlantic, in Freetown...
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Caliban's Reason and the Folk: A Comment
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 169–172.
Published: 01 March 2002
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CRUSADER
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 115–122.
Published: 01 July 2016
... that was catalyzed by the second Gulf War. But, as always, the imagination embodied in Ward's found-object sculptures is animated by a sense of the theatricality of the quotidian and by an attunement to the life-giving, life-nurturing energies of the resolutely ordinary. ...
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Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 45–62.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Éric Morales-Franceschini Whether emplotted as epic or as tragedy, the tales told about a nation’s revolutionary past do not tend to elicit laughter as much as awe and solemnity. This is the case with Cuba’s national epic, the story of its nineteenth-century wars for independence (1868–98...
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Anticolonial Radicals in Different Registers: On Otto and Hermina Huiswoud’s Black Communism
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 87–109.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Mayaki Kimba While Otto and Hermina Huiswoud are often remembered as foot soldiers of the Communist International (Comintern), if not as doctrinarian Stalinists, this essay proposes that such depictions misunderstand the registers in which Black radicals speak. Before World War II...
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Beyond the Great Camouflage: Haiti in Suzanne Césaire's Politics and Poetics of Liberation
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 1–13.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel Suzanne Césaire's essays in Tropiques make an important intervention in imagining a new Martinican and ultimately Pan-Caribbean identity during World War II. This study examines Césaire's joint politics and poetics of liberation in the context of dissidence in Martinique...
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When Is Poetry Political? Césaire on the Role of Knowledge in 1944
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2021
... and Knowledge,” the author compares the 1944 conference paper with the version published in Tropiques in 1945 to show a feedback loop between poetry and politics. The war, the isolation, and the intellectual evolution of Tropiques coalesced to form a new environment that prompted Césaire to rethink the relation...
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When Tía Ate the Telegram: Defiance, Solidarity, and Multipoetic Sensorial Listening
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
Published: 01 July 2022
... brother’s death in the Korean War. Through interpreting the story with multipoetic sensorial listening as a potential methodology, the author uncovers how this brief act so ingrained in her family lore might serve as a form of defiance against colonialism and militarization in Puerto Rico. The essay also...
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Nègre ( Noir , Black , Renoi , Négro )
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 100–107.
Published: 01 July 2022
... and the 1980s and were often borrowed from other languages. The way the terms have been and continue to be used illustrates France’s complicated and shifting relation to people of African descent, notably within its own population. In the context of culture wars that have been shaking the country in the past...
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Violence, Diasporic Transnationalism, and Neo-imperialism in A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 1–12.
Published: 01 November 2018
... diasporic networks: that of violence in all of its different social registers, from means of social control to response to the traumas of past violence. This essay argues that while James’s text is concerned with unveiling the roots of Jamaica’s violence in late–Cold War US imperialism and the larger...
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Politicizing In/Security, Transnational Resistance, and the 1919 Riots in Cardiff and Liverpool
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 56–67.
Published: 01 November 2018
...David Featherstone This essay contributes to work on the contested racialized articulations of conjunctures by engaging with the spatial practices through which racialized in/securities became politicized in the period after the First World War. It explores the forms of opposition to riots against...
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Silence and Specters: The British Empire and the 1904 Haitian Commemorations of Independence
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to reflect on the great achievement of Haitian independence and the exploits of Haiti’s past heroes, and for the Haitian state to remind its people of the commitment to remaining independent in the face of mounting imperialist intervention. British observers reacted to Haitian memories of the Wars...
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Familial Longings: Trans-Caribbean Narratives of Dictatorship and the Latin American Imaginary
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 69–85.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., and identity anchored in the political upheavals of the Cold War. This essay examines how the contemporary Caribbean writers Julia Álvarez, Junot Díaz, and Edwidge Danticat use familial dynamics to bring forth the multifaceted and complex realities of transnational communities, dispel ideas of cultural...
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Science Fiction and the Rules of Uncertainty
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 1–10.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Guillermina De Ferrari A frequent trope in apocalyptic literature is a war between time and knowledge. Focusing on Rita Indiana’s “cli-fi” novel La mucama de Omicunlé ( Omicunlé’s Maid ), this essay explores the ambiguous role that uncertainty plays in apocalyptic literature. It argues that time...
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On Bankers and Empire : Racial Capitalism, Antiblackness, and Antiradicalism
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 175–186.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., imperialism, and (neo)colonialism in the epoch of US-led finance capitalism. Then it builds on Hudson’s concept of “racial capitalism,” which the author defines and explicates as a war-driven racially hierarchical global system constituting white supremacist accumulation, dependent extraction, imperial...
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Rogue Bankers, Black Radicalism, and the Caribbean History of Racial Capitalism
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 197–207.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., and Caribbean sovereignty; (2) the particular status and nature of the Caribbean region within the history of capitalism; (3) the nature and the meaning of the well-worn term racial capitalism ; and (4) the idea of “war” as a fundamental aspect of the modes of regulation and accumulation of said racial...
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An Intimate History of Empire
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 175–185.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of narratives of the black presence and racism in postwar Britain that center on the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948. By way of conclusion, the essay follows Carby in revisiting the so-called Brown Baby debate at the end of World War II, an episode in the reracialization of Britain that offers...
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