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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)): 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 (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 (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 1–28.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Alvan A. Ikoku This essay details the implications of focusing on the forest as a point of figuration and analysis for a world literature emanating from English-, French-, and Spanish-language work on the Caribbean. Of primary interest are two instances of meta- and paratextual comment on forests...
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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 (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 111–120.
Published: 01 November 2010
... out there. In particular, I focus attention on potential weaknesses in these two overlapping theories of world literature. For although both of the projects are undeniably well intentioned, the self-serving aspects of the Littérature-monde manifesto, and the utopian dimension of Glissant's thinking...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 69–77.
Published: 01 November 2010
... a new era for writ-
ing in French from nonmetropolitan regions. It moreover suggests that this moment marks
a “Copernican revolution” in the literary history of France and the French-speaking world.1
But consider the case of Haitian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 78–88.
Published: 01 November 2010
... and the French language. Writers of
littérature-monde, by contrast, align themselves more with the anglophone tradition of world
literature, in which a colonial center such as France ceases to dominate and instead the French
language becomes simply a vehicle of expression for a more global vision...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (3 (33)): 21–32.
Published: 01 November 2010
... and non-European writing. These connection failures illustrate both a short-circuit in the (supposedly) global transmission of critical thought, and an inadequate understanding of the notion of the `world' when conjugated with the term `literature'. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Connection Failures: Discourse...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 28–36.
Published: 01 November 2018
... experiences of the world”; Mémoire d’encrier, “La maison” (accessed 6 February 2018). 33 “Combat racism and exclusion through books and literature; to celebrate those writers who, through their imagination, upset and rework the order of things”; “Espace de la diversité,” Salon du livre de Montréal, 15...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2020
... throughout the world. Given the importance of literature to various forms of social cohesion, it is not surprising that the European and US empires that have dominated the geopolitical existence of the insular Caribbean have not readily invested in literary infrastructure throughout the archipelago...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 64–77.
Published: 01 November 2014
...), 173; hereafter cited in the text. Unless otherwise indicated, all translations throughout are mine. 14 Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities , trans. William Weaver (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 21. 13 Apter, Against World Literature , 15. 12 Emily Apter...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Saidiya Hartman This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn't already been stated. As an emblematic figure of the enslaved woman in the Atlantic world, Venus makes plain...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 232–243.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., highlighting how this literature has long drawn on matrilineal genealogies to examine indentureship, its afterlife, and its significance for contemporary Caribbean feminisms. Critically seen, a focus on mutilated womanhood as individually experienced overshadows decades of Indo-Caribbean women’s empowerment...
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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 (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 197–200.
Published: 01 July 2015
... ethics, and post-nineteenth-century movements in world literature and world health. N adia H uggins is a self-taught photographer from St. Vincent and the Grenadines whose primary focus is documentary and conceptual photography of and about the Caribbean. Her work has appeared in several...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 202–204.
Published: 01 July 2014
.... He is author of The Caribbean Novel since 1945 (2012) and coeditor of Perspectives on the “Other America”: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture (2009). He is currently principal investigator on the AHRC-funded project “Decolonizing Voices: World Literature and Broadcast...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature (2014). His current research explores the cultural history of the Cold War in the Caribbean. ADOM GETACHEW is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of translational relation. 54 Translation is presented accordingly as a key element of Glissant's notion of a “new archipelagic thought.” 55 This is a maneuver similar to that proposed by Emily Apter in Against World Literature , where “untranslatability” functions in a similar way to Glissant's...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 188–191.
Published: 01 November 2011
... including (1988),Dash’s
Edouardtextrecent (1998). books Glissant He are is Libètealso(1995), the: A andtranslator Haiti The Anthology Other of Gisèle America: (1999), Pineau aCaribbean collection’s The Drifting Literature edited of with Spirits in Charlesa New(1999). World Arthur, His Conmost...
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