The special section of our latest issue, SX 79, focuses on the life and work of Trinidadian scholar-activist Rhoda Reddock, and her powerful impact on Caribbean Feminisms.
This issue is now available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social; 🔗 link: smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79
Have you checked out SX 79 yet?
This issue features essays by Anasa Hicks, Elizabeth Jackson, Raul Fernandez, Max Gruber, and Jessica Adams.
This issue is out in print and will soon be made available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social !
SX 79 IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🎉
All abstracts and author bios are available on our website, at smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79
This issue will soon be available online through Duke University Press at read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe
Cover art 🖼️: “Some fruits have legs” by Shoshanna Weinberger
SX 79 IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🎉
All abstracts and author bios are available on our website, at smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79
This issue will soon be available online through Duke University Press at read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe
Cover art 🖼️: “Some fruits have legs” by Shoshanna Weinberger
Happy National Poetry Month! 🎉
Over the years, our Small Axe Journal has published numerous works on Caribbean Poets/Poetry/Poetics: here are some examples to add to your reading list!
All of these works are available online through @dukepress.bsky.social; read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...
SX blog is our digital space for brief commentary and reflection on cultural, political, and intellectual events. We accept submissions in the form of short commentary and multimedia materials.
Those interested may email their work or remaining questions to:
editorial.asst@smallaxe.net
Join us this Friday, April 3rd, at 12:00pm for the fourth iteration of our Keywords project, where contributors trace and explore the concept “heritage” across the region and from a range of approaches.
The link 🔗: tinyurl.com/sxkeywords-H...
Join us this Friday, April 3rd, at 12:00pm for the fourth iteration of our Keywords project, where contributors trace and explore the concept “heritage” across the region and from a range of approaches.
The link 🔗: tinyurl.com/sxkeywords-H...
Small Axe is a project of Caribbean criticism spread across multiple platforms. Each platform addresses a different set of Caribbean practices: visual, literary, intellectual, cultural.
All information regarding our project and potential submissions can be found on our website, 🔗smallaxe.net !
Dr. Leslie R. James salutes Gordon Rohlehr whose work “refracted the soul of our Caribbean world”. In it, Dr. James reflects on Rohlehr’s enduring contributions to the study of form across Caribbean literature and history. Read “Salute to Bookman Gordon Rohlehr” here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...
30 years of Small Axe!
Over the years, we have had the opportunity to collaborate with many talented artists for our journal covers: here are some examples!
The rest of our covers can be found on our website, 🔗smallaxe.net, and the pieces can be accessed through @dukepress.bsky.social
ANNOUNCEMENT 📢‼️
The Small Axe Journal is getting a new section. Named “Notes, Commentary and Reflections,” this section will feature pieces that address urgent contemporary issues in the Caribbean. Submissions can be uploaded to our submissions portal on our website, 🔗 smallaxe.net
Small Axe turns 30! 🥳
For our next three issues, we are celebrating 30 years of Small Axe. Previous and upcoming issues available through Duke; link: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe
Check out the table of contents for the upcoming SX79, to be published this month!
SX art 8 is out!
Nicole Smythe-Johnson interviews Deborah Anzinger, award-winning Jamaican artist and founder of non-profit visual art initiative, New Local Space (NLS).
Link 🔗: smallaxe.net/sxart/projec...
This essay meditates on the dual meaning of power—radiant power and political power—that surfaced in the anticolonial struggle for Chaguaramas. The scientific fact of radiation remained secondary to the political fact of radiation as a basis for working-class power.
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By analyzing Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s novel Daughters of the Stone and Josefina Báez’s long poem Comrade, Bliss Ain’t Playing, this essay investigates how Afro-Latina writers depict Afro-Latinx subjectivities in the hispanophone Caribbean and the United States.
Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/3h9uhn79
Focusing on Frederick Douglass’s “A Trip to Hayti” (1861) and the first installment of James Theodore Holly’s “Thoughts on Hayti” (1859), this essay examines the strategic idealization of Haiti in mid-nineteenth-century African American propaganda.
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This essay describes Claude McKay’s historical imagination: the history of former and current empires; the influence of economic systems on how time is experienced in the West and the Caribbean; and art’s historical function as a portal to lost customs.
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SX editor David Scott writes, in the preface to the issue 78, about the betrayal of the leadership of the communist Left in Jamaica who, after the dismantlement of the party back in the 70s, were “reabsorbed into middle-class respectability and conformity.”
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In our Book Discussion of the SX 78, authors Marisel Moreno, Elizabeth S. Manley, and Lorgia García Peña colabore with essays on García Peña’s Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective.
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In the Small Axe 77 issue, our Keywords in Caribbean Studies section is devoted to the concept Heritage, with essays by Alyssa James, Ayana Omilade Flewellen, Khadene Harris, and Nadia Mosquera Muriel
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Commemorating and critiquing the author’s nearly three-month stint living with and being possessed by the Trinidad and Tobago Memorial Quilt, this essay demonstrates a way not only to write about a Caribbean AIDS quilt, but to approach quilting as methodology.
Read it @ Duke tinyurl.com/2jmmkb64
This essay explores the representation of same-sex eroticism and love between women in Ana-Maurine Lara’s Erzulie’s Skirt (2008) which offers a decolonial poetics that counters the whitewashing, anti-Blackness, and Christian nationalism of Dominican identity.
Read It @ Duke tinyurl.com/yc8mmwfj
This essay revisits Nancy Morejón’s Lengua de pájaro not only because “it is a book of which little has been said” but because it provides a compelling lens to examine the intricate dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the Cuban cultural landscape of the 1960s.
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With great pleasure, the Small Axe Project welcomes Simone A. James Alexander to the sx salon editorial team, taking over the role of Book Reviews Editor from Ronald Cummings. Welcome Simone!
smallaxe.net/sxblog
This essay by C.C. McKee is grounded in the unsolved early modern mathematical problem of “squaring the circle” to explore geometrical form as a force that undergirded colonial violence in the Caribbean.
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This essay by Carlos Garrido Castellano attempts to answer two main questions: What might contemporary art from the Caribbean look like? And how does contemporaneity emerge when scrutinized from the point of view of the Caribbean?
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