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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Genres of History and the Practice of Loss16
Through Archie Lindo’s Lens10
The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History10
Antihomosexuality and Nationalist Critique in Late Colonial Jamaica9
Mass Weddings in Jamaica and the Production of Academic Folk Knowledge9
Provision Grounds Against the Plantation8
Preface4
“Inner Plantation”: Caribbean Studies, Black Studies, and a Black Theory of Freedom3
The Limits of Repair2
Inside and Outside the Exhibition Space2
Daniel Maximin’s Lone Sun1
Nancy Morejón, Nicolás Guillén y el cimarronaje aún necesario en Cuba contemporánea1
Caribbean Man in Space and Time1
The Dual Biopolitics in the Cuban Postplantation of Gloria Rolando’s Raíces de mi corazón1
Absence and Disappearance1
Everything Slackens in a Wreck1
Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire1
Caribbean Literary Historiography and the Jamaican Literary 1950s1
The Birth of “Quow”1
Nation, Race, and Performance in the Poetics of Nicolás Guillén and Nancy Morejón1
White Mythologies1
Beyond Trouillot1
Magical Thinking in Chamoiseau’s Chemin-d’école1
Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue1
The Politics of Style in “Caribbean Man in Space and Time”1
Maroon, Fiiman, Busikondeesama: A Play on Identity in Three Speech Acts1
“We Are Animal. So What?”1
Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow1
Departmental Dystopia1
Preface1
An Intimate History of Empire1
Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica1
Transformista, Travesti, Transgénero1
Bigger than the Sound1
Imperial Intimacies—Further Thoughts1
Simarrona: Beyond Etymologies toward a Practice of Unlearning1
Représentations de l’Afrique dans l’imaginaire haïtien au vingtième siècle1
The Dundus and the Chineyman0
Styling Subversion0
A Spirit of Inquiry0
Busshead Hardhead0
Ghosts in Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints and Angie Cruz’s Soledad0
Amy Bailey, Black Ladyhood, and 1950s Jamaica0
Out of Darkness0
Patería and Contemporary Puerto Rican Queer/Trans Performance0
Here . . . but Disappeared0
Organizing Pessimism Redux0
The Precarity of Intramural Theorizing0
At the Crossroads of Many Worlds0
Preface0
Mode of Black Life0
Secretions of Subjectivity0
Preface0
Contributors0
Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Work as African Recognition0
Jews and Frenchies: The White Ethnic Minority in the US Virgin Islands0
A Multispecies Caribbean0
A Literary Friendship0
Embracing Our Animal Selves: The Liberatory Politics of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild0
The Beginning is the End and the End is the Beginning0
Preface0
Modern Dermabrasions0
Cimarrón and the Reordering of the Living World0
Of “Realities and Possibilities”0
Black Women and Their Discontents in the French Context0
Widening Horizons0
The Minister of Mercy Is a Homegirl0
Peasant Sensibility and the Structures of Feeling of “My People” in George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin0
Decolonizing the Married Woman0
“The Antilles for the Sons of the Antilles”: On Translating Ramón Emeterio Betances0
Between Revolution and Repair: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa in a Caribbean Intellectual Tradition0
When Is Poetry Political? Césaire on the Role of Knowledge in 19440
Life Unadministered0
Preface: Honor to the Work0
The Questions Kamau Asked of Us0
Archive as Offering0
Considering a Principled Foundation for Renewal and Repair0
The Importance of Being (In)Authentic0
The Nature of Ruins0
Pushed into Consciousness0
Contributors0
Preface0
Discours au Salon maçonnique de Port-au-Prince0
Whose Dialectic? Walter Rodney, Marxism, and Africa0
More Relevant Than Ever0
Universalism in Unevenness: Writing History at the Hill0
The Specificity of the Ordinary0
Moving Against the System0
Citizenship Violence and the Afterlives of Dutch Colonialism0
A Return to the Anticolonial0
Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures0
Blood and Noise0
The Complicated Legacies of a Comrade Sister0
Kamau Brathwaite, a Memoir0
Black Power and/as Patriarchy0
Contributors0
The Boundary of Light0
Kith and Kin0
what is the value of water if it doesn’t quench our thirst for . . .0
From Haiti to Congo0
What Happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora?0
Dread Dialectics0
Luisa Capetillo and the Counter-Republic of Letters0
Dangerous Disturbances0
Contributors0
Seeing the World through a Puerto Rican Lens0
Bad Faith and the Contours of Black Consciousness0
Introduction: Literature and the State in Nancy Morejón0
Zippin’ Up My Boots, Going Back to My Routes0
Prefigurings Remembered0
“A New Rhythm Starts Immediately”0
Pretty Pretty0
Caribbean Studies in Digital Space and Time0
Animal History; Animal Future?0
Maureen Warner-Lewis, Friend and Colleague0
Anti-Blackness and Other Fears of Black Consciousness0
Transnational Renderings of Negro/a/x/*0
Cultural Criticism and Its Generations: The Achievement of Maureen Warner-Lewis0
Contributors0
Canonizing De Kom0
To Be Black Is to . . .0
Echoes in the Bone: Hearing Africa in Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Caribbean0
Caribbean Freedom beyond Coloniality0
Preface0
Haitian Mawonaj, the “Picaroons,” and Re-centering the Maritime Dimensions of Maroon History0
Dirty Martini Delivers Gender Justice0
Displacing Wij slaven van Suriname0
Appropriating Anton de Kom Today0
Making History Visible0
La Caldosa: Afro-Lesbian Space-Making and Transnational Politics in Havana0
Contributors0
A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture0
Redefining Mestizaje: How Trans-Caribbean Exchanges Solidified Black Consciousness in Cuba0
Not a Usual Man0
Insurgent Knowledges: Reading How Europe Underdeveloped Africa alongside the Rupture in Guyana0
Other Radicals0
“The Present as History”: Walter Rodney and the Search for Usable African Pasts0
Suzanne and Suzanne0
Luisa Capetillo and the Pedagogy of Unruliness0
Din as Discourse in the Anglophone Caribbean0
Contributors0
Aimé Césaire’s Yugoslav Detour0
Preface0
Reading for Time in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa0
Displacements0
Montreal 1968 and the Last Colonial Generation0
Criminalization on a World Scale0
Where and When Is Crisis?0
Dancing in an Enclosure0
Sounding Jamaican—After Carolyn Cooper0
“Ziggy, sé an makoumè0
Contributors0
Macandal. Makandal. Mackandal.” Man and Protean Pluralema0
Nègre (Noir, Black, Renoi, Négro)0
Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure0
What Lies Here, Beyond Boundary?0
Preface0
Contributors0
“Yu a Brand”0
Contributors0
Sensorial Errancy in Decolonial Key0
Contributors0
Erotic Synergies and Variances in the Sexual Vernacular of the Postcolonial Dutch Caribbean0
Her Name Was Doña Margot0
Pedagogy, Textured0
Queer Césaire0
Gender and the Americanist James0
The Legacies of Luisa Capetillo0
The Trajectory of a Postnationalist0
Denial, Responsibility, Bad Faith, and Blues in Lewis Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness0
Unfinished Business0
The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince0
Rastafari, the Transnational Archive, and Postcolonial Caribbean Intellectual History0
Preface0
A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall’s Art of Living0
Not Dead Yet0
This Is How You Become the Animal You Are So Bent on Becoming0
Death and Prefiguration0
In Conversation with History0
Contributors0
Recuperating the Value of Nothing in Erna Brodber’s Short Novel Nothing’s Mat0
Peter Abrahams’s Island Fictions for Freedom0
Andaiye and Audre Lorde’s Black Transnational Sisterhood; or, “I Want You in This World”0
Notes on Radical Hope; or, The Ethical Turn in Anthropology0
Off Cuts0
Abduction and the Grounds of Caribbean Reasoning0
Inside the Circle0
Kamau at Ninety0
Skirts Rolled Up0
Noising Creole Abroad: Chatting about Voice; Some Thoughts on Belinda Edmondson’s Creole Noise0
Disturbing the Neighbors0
Decolonization, Otherness, and the Neglect of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean Studies0
Reading Luisa Capetillo0
(W)uman Tong(ue): Writing a Bilingual Newspaper Column in “Postcolonial” Jamaica0
When Tía Ate the Telegram0
From Loíza to Yauco’s Mountainous Area0
History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism0
IMPRINT0
How Do You Translate Compaña?0
Mas yo resto: Entrevista con Nancy Morejón0
Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter0
Sous Influence0
Walking Duermevelas with Luisa0
Deceptive Benevolence: Witnessing Whiteness in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano0
Preface: The Duty of Criticism0
Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and “Failed” Nations: Haiti and Jewish Refugees in the 1930s0
Keywords in Caribbean Studies0
Black Caribs / Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness0
The (Im)Possibility of Black Repair0
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