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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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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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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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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 121–134.
Published: 01 November 2010
...,
“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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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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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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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 178–187.
Published: 01 November 2014
... of their customary meanings, creating a verbal landscape in which words no longer accommodated themselves to the acceptable scripts of civility. Like law itself, spirits form the locus of embodied history. The appearance of the gods, and even the cult of the ancestors, is operative only in a social 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
...David Scott Copyright © 2019 Small Axe, Inc. 2019 In memory of Teshome Gabriel I had imagined arriving in Addis Ababa to the thumping soundtrack of Dennis Brown’s “The Promised Land” or Third World’s “Journey to Addis,” full, in other words, of the rhythms of an enchanted...
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The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean
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. European and US intervention continue to shape how the region experiences crisis...
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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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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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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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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 169–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... colonial 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...
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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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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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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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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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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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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 162–173.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., defiance, and imagined new worlds in Black women’s literary production and political thought. Having been born and raised and having lived in the belly of the beast, they have no confusion about the nature of that beast. They have witnessed their immigrant parents abused by a system that had promised...
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