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World Literature in French: A Caribbean Design?
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 89–98.
Published: 01 November 2010
...Keithley Woolward Directly engaging the recent manifesto and essay collection calling for a world literature in French, this article considers the creolized, hybrid forms of geopolitical and discursive belonging of the Francophone Caribbean participants as a useful starting point for such a project...
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The Ambivalent Transnationalism of a Literature-World—in French
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 99–110.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., and linguistic borders of postcolonial literature. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 The Ambivalent Transnationalism
of a Literature-World—in French
Kaiama L. Glover
Like the diagnosis of an illness with regard to the doctor, the analysis of the manifesto is
empowering for the critic. The manifesto appeals...
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Late Glissant: History, “World Literature,” and the Persistence of the Political
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 121–134.
Published: 01 November 2010
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“World Literature,” and the
Persistence of the Political
Charles Forsdick
Postcolonial critics customarily present Edward Said as a foundational figure in their field,
yet repeated claims to “ownership” along these lines contradict Said’s protestations, often
expressed in interviews...
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Specters in the Forest: Gothic Form and World-Ecology in Edgar Mittelholzer's My Bones and My Flute
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 53–68.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Michael Niblett Arguing for an understanding of the capitalist world-system as the interpretative horizon of world-literature, this essay considers how the formal and stylistic mannerisms of Edgar Mittelholzer's My Bones and My Flute (1955) register the contradictory inflection of capitalist...
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Caribbean Regionalism, South Africa, and Mapping New World Studies
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
Published: 01 March 2015
... as a conceptual frame in Caribbean theory and literature. This essay pushes for a New World African diasporic rethinking of Cape Town as an alternative city-space within such imaginaries—alternative to that for which Harlem has become metonymic: the New Negro and the Renaissance in black literary and cultural...
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Writing in a Belittered World
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 178–187.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., all her things arrived here at the house: old paintings, jewelry, silver, and hundreds upon hundreds of photos that my father took of her in every pose all over the world. She is here where she wants to be, going through her things and laughing at me while she pleads with me to be close, to get down...
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From New World to Abeng : George Beckford and the Horn of Black Power in Jamaica, 1968-1970
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 1–15.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Robert A. Hill This essay examines the role played by George Beckford in grappling critically with the complicated legacy of the plantation system. It focuses on the transition from his role in the New World group to his participation in the Abeng newspaper group in Jamaica, in 1969. The essay...
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On Slavery, Césaire, and Relating to the World: An Interview with Patrick Chamoiseau
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (3 (30)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2009
... of the world are in constant connectedness to each other, capitalism being only the crudest example of this reality. Finally Chamoiseau queries the extent to which the term `postcolonial' can be a useful one for formerly colonised peoples, given the risk that it might sanctify or give undue prominence...
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The Importance of Being Cultural: Nationalist Thought and Jagan's Colonial World
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 82–105.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Nalini Persram Small Axe Incorporated 2004 The Importance of Being Cultural:
Nationalist Thought and Jagan’s
Colonial World
Nalini Persram
[O]nly a vulgar reductionist can insist that [nationalism’s] new political possibilities simply “emerge”
out of a social structure...
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“That Area of Experience That We Term the New World”: Introducing Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis”
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 37–46.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Aaron Kamugisha This essay introduces Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World,” an unpublished 900-plus-page manuscript written by Wynter in the 1970s. “Black Metamorphosis” is a remarkable manuscript, and it deserves close study for a number of reasons. It is arguably...
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The Black Experience of New World Coloniality
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 129–145.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Aaron Kamugisha “Black Metamorphosis,” Sylvia Wynter's unpublished manuscript of the 1970s, is premised on the idea that the black experience of coloniality is crucial to comprehending the history of the New World. This essay traces the idea of black experience in “Black Metamorphosis” through...
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The Lost New World of Caribbean Studies: Recalling an Un-American Puerto Rico Project
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.
Published: 01 July 2013
...Harvey Neptune Caribbean studies, institutionalized from inception as part of the “third world,” might be beneficially reconceptualized minus the postwar geopolitical presumptions of three worlds and, remapped, instead, within the two-world schema. To resituate the Caribbean this way enables...
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Criminalization on a World Scale: Racial Capitalism, Finance, and the Crime of Poverty in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 169–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... expansion and the emerging world system. Stereotypes of Black people as lazy, irresponsible, and of inferior intellect served to legitimize the modes of social domination that developed on the plantation, creating narratives of degraded worth that justified depriving them of social power and the freedom...
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Andaiye and Audre Lorde’s Black Transnational Sisterhood; or, “I Want You in This World”
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 19–33.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Sasha Ann Panaram So many Black revolutionaries lived with and died from cancer. How did they make sense of their vulnerability when confronted with this illness? How did they balance fighting for the world and for themselves? When modern medicine could neither ameliorate their pain nor eliminate...
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Cimarrón and the Reordering of the Living World
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2023
... demand a close consideration of the relationship between conquest, othering, racialization, commodification, and the reordering of the animal world with human animals as supreme beings. The contemporary reappropriation of the term alludes to a decolonial reframing, a unique opportunity to reject Western...
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Seeing the World through a Puerto Rican Lens: Decolonial Critique in Boricua Beats
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 201–218.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Agustín Laó-Montes This review essay of Rocio Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) argues that it is a book about contemporary Puerto Rico and its world-historical significance that engages this endeavor with depth and breath, carefully crafting its own argument, through...
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Rodney Saint-Éloi: Writer and Publisher of the “Whole-World”
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 28–36.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Bonnie Thomas Rodney Saint-Éloi is one of the most exciting contemporary writers of Haitian origin, and yet his work is little studied in the academic world. Saint-Éloi, who was born in Haiti in 1963 and migrated to Montreal, Canada, in 2001, has maintained a long and distinguished career...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): vii–x.
Published: 01 July 2019
... is a man of a quiet and retiring disposition whose settled and familiar world is rapidly coming apart before his very eyes, rent by forces that seem to him unaccountable. Like the old regime, his wife is dying—but he cannot let her go. His two sons are a study in contrasts. Yonas, the elder of the two...
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The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 96–109.
Published: 01 July 2020
...-states. Finally, the essay suggests that our apocalyptic present makes the case for an abolitionist praxis to intentionally end this world that singularly values Man 2 / homo oeconomicus to save ourselves as a species. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 2018 Greenvale floods climate change...
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At the Crossroads of Many Worlds: Marilyn Houlberg and Arts Patronage in Haiti
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 60–78.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., such deliberate fashion choices recalled manifestations of Gran Brijit, a lwa , or Vodou spirit, who presides over the crossroads between the worlds of the living and the dead. Such purposeful aesthetic choices, coupled with her deep knowledge of Vodou, proved especially beneficial when navigating more...
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