...Robert F. Reid-Pharr The Stranger's Work reads Hazel Carby's Reconstructing Womanhood into a critical tradition that considers the awkwardness and “outsider” status of Western intellectuals, particularly those who take up the subjects of diaspora and colonization. With special emphasis on C.L.R...

...Celia M. Britton Critical work on Glissant often divides his writing into two periods: before and after the publication of Le Discours antillais in 1981. In the first he focuses mainly on Martinique and its social, political and cultural problems, while the second broadens out, via the concept...

...Marie Meudec The purpose of this essay is to understand the language of spiritual work and healing in St. Lucia as well as the moral impregnation of the term obeah . This ethnographic study of ordinary ethics of obeah explores the significant gap between the designation and auto-legitimation...

...Celia Britton The theme of identity runs throughout Édouard Glissant's work and constitutes one of his most original contributions to postcolonial thought. It is always considered in relation to change, but his formulations of both identity and change themselves change in the course of his career...

... an image maker fi rst and a painter second. Yet both paradigms are important for what I am attempting to do. My work as an image maker has its genesis in a continuing obsession with images of the past and the expressive potential of a particular tradition. Th is interest is an intensely personal one...

...John Beadle Small Axe Incorporated 2004 John Beadle ainting, relief carving, and found materials are combined in this work to construct what are portraits of the self, draped onto another armature. Th e tactile quality of the work makes connections to the tangible...

... work with the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC)—the Miami-based nonprofit legal services organization working on behalf of immigrants and refugees—and her role as narrator in the film Potomitan: Haitian Women Pillars of the Global Economy (2009). In the introduction, the author discusses...

...Christopher Taylor This essay argues that Caribbean histories of slavery and emancipation have served as a crucial site for the generation of the Marxist antiwork politics popularized by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Recovering a transnational network of radicals that disseminated the work of C...

... Lee's poetry and fiction resituate the primary contact zone of the shop from an urban space to the rural outpost, where the meeting of black and Chinese was also a meeting of “patois” and “pidgin.” Lee's work challenges representations of Chinese shopkeepers as parasitic, casting them instead...

...-practical concern for those made into unpersons by the law and the work of “imagining what can't be verified.” © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 Colin (Joan) Dayan Hawthorne Archive extraneous persons legal ritual literary fieldwork October 2013 To: Small Axe From: The Hawthorne Archive Dear...

... of the 2010 earthquake “occupies the center of the work” is thrown into question when her work is juxtaposed with literary narratives that feature Haitian girl protagonists, such as Evelyne Trouillot’s The Infamous Rosalie and Laura Wagner’s Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go. These narratives by Trouillot and Wagner...

... of informed speculation in scholarly work on slavery and black revolution. The long gestation of Freedom’s Mirror meant many things beyond a slow promotion to full. The databases and word processing programs with which I began the project disappeared before its end. Much more important, some...

... into the same heritage? What is the proper time and place of a poet or a poem? What is the work of legacy? How might the effort to memorialize a poet detach us from the material conditions of his or her emergence? © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 René Char Edouard GLissant Saint John Perse Martinique...

...David Scott © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Insofar as it is a project and not merely a random venture, however professionally and personally rewarding and expertly executed, journal work is characterized by the activation and embodiment of an ethos . The essence of this ethos, I believe...

... between online and offline spaces, and while they aspire to publish in traditional outlets (that can lead to, say, book contracts or paid work), they are comfortable in how they interact with social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram. Mwesigire is also a great example...

...Patricia Joan Saunders Beyond the traditional work that journals and editors are responsible for, the editors of Small Axe and Anthurium have also undertaken institution building through knowledge production. This might well be the kind of development of communications networks that Hardt and Negri...

... 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...

...David Scott Small Axe Incorporated 2004 Counting Women’s Caring Work: An Interview with Andaiye David Scott Upon an evening like this, mother, when one year is making way for another, in a ceremony attended by a show of silver stars, mothers see the moon, milk-fed...

... The book is an impressive and provocative achievement, a significant work that asks pointed questions of several fields and disciplines. It is especially notable for the way Bonilla excavates significant questions about sovereignty and political imagination from what could have been an interesting...

... rights reserved. 2008 Navigating Between the Continents: Further Thoughts on Edouard Duval Carrié’s Work Edward J. Sullivan Ab s t r a c t : This essay revisits the arguments in Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrié. The book’s editor looks at how...