Small Axe

Papers
(The median citation count of Small Axe is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Minister of Mercy Is a Homegirl11
Preface: Honor to the Work9
What Lies Here, Beyond Boundary?3
The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince3
The Questions Kamau Asked of Us1
Embracing Our Animal Selves: The Liberatory Politics of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild1
Macandal. Makandal. Mackandal.” Man and Protean Pluralema1
Pretty Pretty1
Displacing Wij slaven van Suriname1
Représentations de l’Afrique dans l’imaginaire haïtien au vingtième siècle1
Organizing Pessimism Redux1
Anti-Blackness and Other Fears of Black Consciousness1
Discours au Salon maçonnique de Port-au-Prince1
Preface1
Preface: The Duty of Criticism1
From Haiti to Congo1
Pan-Africanism and the Works and Lives of Otto and Hermina Huiswoud1
How Do You Translate Compaña?1
The Complicated Legacies of a Comrade Sister1
Where and When Is Crisis?1
Walking Duermevelas with Luisa1
Contributors1
Régine Jean-Charles’s Black Feminist Ethical Reading of Twenty-First-Century Haitian Women’s Fiction1
Abduction and the Grounds of Caribbean Reasoning1
Contributors0
Luisa Capetillo and the Counter-Republic of Letters0
Unruly Diasporas0
Transformista, Travesti, Transgénero0
Preface0
Preface0
The Boundary of Light0
Redefining Mestizaje: How Trans-Caribbean Exchanges Solidified Black Consciousness in Cuba0
Whose Dialectic? Walter Rodney, Marxism, and Africa0
Black Women and Their Discontents in the French Context0
Busshead Hardhead0
Preface0
“We Are Animal. So What?”0
Haitian Feminist Futures0
Seeing the World through a Puerto Rican Lens0
Mas yo resto: Entrevista con Nancy Morejón0
Blood and Noise0
Animal History; Animal Future?0
Echoes in the Bone: Hearing Africa in Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Caribbean0
Caribbean Man in Space and Time0
Criminalization on a World Scale0
Unfinished Business0
More Relevant Than Ever0
A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall’s Art of Living0
When Tía Ate the Telegram0
Black Caribs / Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness0
Introduction: Literature and the State in Nancy Morejón0
What Happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora?0
Contributors0
S’habiller sexy en body string0
Preface0
Insurgent Knowledges: Reading How Europe Underdeveloped Africa alongside the Rupture in Guyana0
Gender and the Americanist James0
Dangerous Disturbances0
This Is How You Become the Animal You Are So Bent on Becoming0
Not Dead Yet0
“Inner Plantation”: Caribbean Studies, Black Studies, and a Black Theory of Freedom0
Daniel Maximin’s Lone Sun0
Contributors0
Nation, Race, and Performance in the Poetics of Nicolás Guillén and Nancy Morejón0
“Ziggy, sé an makoumè0
Denial, Responsibility, Bad Faith, and Blues in Lewis Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness0
White Mythologies0
Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Work as African Recognition0
Jews and Frenchies: The White Ethnic Minority in the US Virgin Islands0
Peasant Sensibility and the Structures of Feeling of “My People” in George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin0
Caribbean Freedom beyond Coloniality0
Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure0
Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures0
Afterword0
Modern Dermabrasions0
Secretions of Subjectivity0
Disturbing the Neighbors0
Off Cuts0
Community Building through Creative Placemaking in Bristol, England0
Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and “Failed” Nations: Haiti and Jewish Refugees in the 1930s0
Contributors0
Maureen Warner-Lewis, Friend and Colleague0
Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica0
Suzanne and Suzanne0
The Beginning is the End and the End is the Beginning0
Death and Prefiguration0
The Limits of Repair0
Otto Huiswoud and the Demise of the Red Black Atlantic0
The Dundus and the Chineyman0
At the Crossroads of Many Worlds0
The Specificity of the Ordinary0
Appropriating Anton de Kom Today0
Queer Césaire0
Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire0
Noising Creole Abroad: Chatting about Voice; Some Thoughts on Belinda Edmondson’s Creole Noise0
Other Radicals0
Citizenship Violence and the Afterlives of Dutch Colonialism0
Aimé Césaire’s Yugoslav Detour0
The Politics of Style in “Caribbean Man in Space and Time”0
An Excerpt of Marie Léticée’s Camille’s Lakou, with a Translator’s Note0
The Nature of Ruins0
Preface0
Preface0
Deceptive Benevolence: Witnessing Whiteness in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano0
Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow0
Sensorial Errancy in Decolonial Key0
“Yu a Brand”0
Dirty Martini Delivers Gender Justice0
History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism0
Nègre (Noir, Black, Renoi, Négro)0
Ghosts in Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints and Angie Cruz’s Soledad0
Out of Darkness0
From Loíza to Yauco’s Mountainous Area0
Reading Luisa Capetillo0
Din as Discourse in the Anglophone Caribbean0
The Legacies of Luisa Capetillo0
The Birth of “Quow”0
Cimarrón and the Reordering of the Living World0
Archive as Offering0
Prefigurings Remembered0
Kamau Brathwaite, a Memoir0
Caribbean Studies in Digital Space and Time0
Patería and Contemporary Puerto Rican Queer/Trans Performance0
Nancy Morejón, Nicolás Guillén y el cimarronaje aún necesario en Cuba contemporánea0
The Fire This Time0
Simarrona: Beyond Etymologies toward a Practice of Unlearning0
Beyond Antagonism0
Inside the Circle0
Haitian Mawonaj, the “Picaroons,” and Re-centering the Maritime Dimensions of Maroon History0
Pushed into Consciousness0
Contributors0
Cultural Criticism and Its Generations: The Achievement of Maureen Warner-Lewis0
Transnational Renderings of Negro/a/x/*0
“A New Rhythm Starts Immediately”0
Contributors0
Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter0
The Dual Biopolitics in the Cuban Postplantation of Gloria Rolando’s Raíces de mi corazón0
To Be Black Is to . . .0
Contributors0
Sounding Jamaican—After Carolyn Cooper0
Preface0
IMPRINT0
The (Im)Possibility of Black Repair0
Absence and Disappearance0
Canonizing De Kom0
Introduction0
Alternate Coda0
A Poetics of Postmourning0
(W)uman Tong(ue): Writing a Bilingual Newspaper Column in “Postcolonial” Jamaica0
Luisa Capetillo and the Pedagogy of Unruliness0
Widening Horizons0
Maroon, Fiiman, Busikondeesama: A Play on Identity in Three Speech Acts0
Considering a Principled Foundation for Renewal and Repair0
Between Revolution and Repair: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa in a Caribbean Intellectual Tradition0
Decolonizing the Married Woman0
Keywords in Caribbean Studies0
Notes on Radical Hope; or, The Ethical Turn in Anthropology0
Bad Faith and the Contours of Black Consciousness0
Of “Realities and Possibilities”0
Contributors0
Her Name Was Doña Margot0
A Literary Friendship0
Contributors0
Anticolonial Radicals in Different Registers0
Pedagogy, Textured0
A Multispecies Caribbean0
Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue0
Dancing in an Enclosure0
Styling Subversion0
La Caldosa: Afro-Lesbian Space-Making and Transnational Politics in Havana0
Mode of Black Life0
Here . . . but Disappeared0
Andaiye and Audre Lorde’s Black Transnational Sisterhood; or, “I Want You in This World”0
Contributors0
Kith and Kin0
Recuperating the Value of Nothing in Erna Brodber’s Short Novel Nothing’s Mat0
Reading for Time in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa0
In Conversation with History0
“The Intuitive Lianas of My Hands”0
Geoffrey Holder0
Erotic Synergies and Variances in the Sexual Vernacular of the Postcolonial Dutch Caribbean0
Life Unadministered0
A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture0
Universalism in Unevenness: Writing History at the Hill0
Preface0
A Return to the Anticolonial0
The Precarity of Intramural Theorizing0
Not a Usual Man0
The Importance of Being (In)Authentic0
“The Antilles for the Sons of the Antilles”: On Translating Ramón Emeterio Betances0
Kamau at Ninety0
Everything Slackens in a Wreck0
“The Present as History”: Walter Rodney and the Search for Usable African Pasts0
The Trajectory of a Postnationalist0
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