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Published: 01 March 2016
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2016
...David Scott © Small Axe, Inc. 2016 I vividly remember arriving at Sylvia Wynter's (then) home in Palo Alto, California, on the morning of 19 November 1999 (almost exactly sixteen years ago to the day I write this) to conduct my planned interview with her. 1 She greeted me at the door...
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The Hills of Hebron : Sylvia Wynter's Disruption of the Narrative of the Nation
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (1): 57–76.
Published: 01 February 2008
...Shirley Toland-Dix Sylvia Wynter's 1962 novel, The Hills of Hebron , is both a narrative of the nation and critique of the extant vision of the nation. Writing her novel from the perspective of a theorist, Wynter introduces insights and concepts that she has since developed in her extensive body...
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From Mode of Production to Mode of Auto-Institution: Sylvia Wynter's Black Metamorphosis of the Labor Question
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Demetrius L. Eudell This essay illustrates how Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” reconceptualizes the question of labor as it relates to the history of blacks in the Americas and generally to the being of Being Human. It does so by situating Wynter's distinctive intervention within the context...
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Marronnons Let's Maroon: Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” As a Species of Maroonage
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 62–78.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Greg Thomas This essay reads Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” as a text that both examines and embodies maroonage, significantly, in various ways and on various levels. It takes off from Aimé Césaire's underacknowledged imperative, “Marronnons-nous,” recognizing and demonstrating the import...
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Sylvia Wynter's Theory of the Human and the Crisis School of Caribbean Heteromasculinity Studies
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 92–112.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Tonya Haynes This essay traces the rise of the crisis school of Caribbean heteromasculinity studies through a critical reading across popular writing, policy research, and scholarly work on Caribbean masculinity. Mobilizing insights that Sylvia Wynter articulated in “Black Metamorphosis...
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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
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The Resistance of the Lost Body
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 113–128.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Nijah Cunningham As the recent revival of Sylvia Wynter's scholarship has commanded the attention of a younger generation of scholars, the special section of Small Axe dedicated to her “forgotten” work provides an occasion to reconsider the prehistory to her theory of the human. Rather than simply...
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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
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Rebellion/Invention/Groove
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 79–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Katherine McKittrick This essay studies Sylvia Wynter's “Black Metamorphosis” and draws attention to the ways plantocratic systems generated black creative activities that rebelled against the tenets of white supremacy and its attendant order of consciousness. Building on Wynter's insights...
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Abduction and the Grounds of Caribbean Reasoning
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 182–189.
Published: 01 July 2021
... demonstrates how by turning to two of the Caribbean’s major thinkers, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their far-less-studied Caribbean writings, Kamugisha takes seriously the centering of Caribbean thinkers in their own histories of political becoming. The essay ends with sustained focus on Kamugisha’s...
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On the Idea of a Caribbean Cultural Studies
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 43–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
... the formation of cultural studies in Europe and North America. To this end, the author sketches a number of overlapping traditions of writing on culture in the Caribbean that take us from the late nineteenth century and considers the work of two Caribbean theorists, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter...
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Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 169–170.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Mimi Sheller This essay reviews Aaron Kamugisha’s reading of the works of C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter in his 2019 book Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition . Kamugisha issues a resounding call to reenergize the radical Caribbean intellectual...
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Dread Dialectics
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... as a manifestation of the black radical tradition and a critical involvement with socialism. Drawing on C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, it argues that black freedom struggles in the Americas and Europe, including slave revolts, have been an essential part of the history of labor and freedom struggles. It also...
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Simarrona : Beyond Etymologies toward a Practice of Unlearning
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 122–127.
Published: 01 July 2023
... ; it foregrounds the instability of colonial grammars and their attendant binaries. The author pairs the poetic resistance with the colonial grammars of Sylvia Wynter, Aimé Césaire, and fahima ife, with the instability of simarrona in the archival record to propose a way of reading archives of marronage...
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Peter Abrahams’s Island Fictions for Freedom
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 84–101.
Published: 01 March 2021
...? What constitutes it? And how does it articulate liberation? Thus despite the sharp critique of leadership in This Island Now , it celebrates the island’s interracial makeup. And it is this that perhaps pushed Wynter to lose patience with the novel—it both hints at and avoids what she calls...
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Reasoning with Caliban's Reason
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 158–168.
Published: 01 March 2002
..., Sylvia Wynter), they have for the most part been separated, and
this, as Wilson Harris has suggested,¹ has served to diminish potential advances in social
understanding that might have arisen from a closer affi liation.
More important, the absence of a self-conscious philosophical gaze has...
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Plantation Futures
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 1–15.
Published: 01 November 2013
...: A Conference on Dionne Brand,” Toronto, Ontario, 14 October 2006); Rinaldo Walcott, Black Like Who: Writing Black Canada , 2nd ed. (Toronto: Insomniac, 2003), 43–55; McKittrick, Demonic Grounds . 45 Wynter, “Rethinking ‘Aesthetics,’” 271 (emphasis in original). 42 Kenneth Hewitt, “Place...
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“Inner Plantation”: Caribbean Studies, Black Studies, and a Black Theory of Freedom
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 116–126.
Published: 01 November 2021
...; it marks a certain lack of diasporic material and affective life force. In the essay “Genres of Human: Multiculturalism, Cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean Basin,” I argue in part, using the work of Brathwaite, Édouard Glissant, Stuart Hall, and Sylvia Wynter, that the zone of creolization is not just...
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