Small Axe

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Minister of Mercy Is a Homegirl4
Contributors4
Small Trees Take Down Big Axes3
Introduction: On Caribbean Decolonial Futures2
What Lies Here, Beyond Boundary?2
“Pass Them On”2
Caribbean Feminist Praxis: The Scholarly and Activist Work of Rhoda Reddock2
Capitalist Slavery and Its Afterlives2
Contributors2
From Haiti to Congo1
Preface1
Recovering Watapana1
Beyond the Anthropocene Ark Ecology of Climate Havens and Spaceships1
Anti-Blackness and Other Fears of Black Consciousness1
Pan-Africanism and the Works and Lives of Otto and Hermina Huiswoud1
Displacing Wij slaven van Suriname1
Régine Jean-Charles’s Black Feminist Ethical Reading of Twenty-First-Century Haitian Women’s Fiction1
Disaster Narratives as Refusal: Flooding, Critique, and Care in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti1
How Do You Translate Compaña?1
Tending to the Future1
Preface: Caribbean Studies in an Age of Barbarism1
Walking Duermevelas with Luisa1
Aimé Césaire’s Anticolonial Humanism as Species Autopoiesis1
Imagined Conversations with Caribbean Poets1
Organizing Pessimism Redux1
Squaring the Circle1
Venezuela and the Caribbean: Colonialism on the Cheap or American Decline?0
Maureen Warner-Lewis, Friend and Colleague0
Animal History; Animal Future?0
Secretions of Subjectivity0
Preface0
A Return to the Anticolonial0
Insurgent Knowledges: Reading How Europe Underdeveloped Africa alongside the Rupture in Guyana0
IMPRINT0
Memories of the Night: The Wanderer's Awakening0
Disturbing the Neighbors0
Denial, Responsibility, Bad Faith, and Blues in Lewis Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness0
Din as Discourse in the Anglophone Caribbean0
Sixty Years Later0
“A New Rhythm Starts Immediately”0
Haitian Feminist Futures0
Angola on Trial in Cuba: The Hidden History of Race in El Caso Ochoa0
Life Unadministered0
No Loss for Words: Decolonization and the Untranslatable in The Caribbean in Translation0
Noising Creole Abroad: Chatting about Voice; Some Thoughts on Belinda Edmondson’s Creole Noise0
Peasant Sensibility and the Structures of Feeling of “My People” in George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin0
Words to Treasure0
What Is the “Contemporary” in Contemporary Caribbean Art?0
Contributors0
The Complicated Legacies of a Comrade Sister0
Translation, Care, and Listening at the Threshold0
Whose Dialectic? Walter Rodney, Marxism, and Africa0
Preface0
The Dundus and the Chineyman0
“We Are Animal. So What?”0
Contributors0
A Sea of Sound, Water, and Time: A Greater Caribbean Musical Web0
Contributors0
Sounding Jamaican—After Carolyn Cooper0
Abstraction, Subjectivity, and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Slavery0
Troubled Men0
Deceptive Benevolence: Witnessing Whiteness in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano0
Visualizing Decolonial Environmental Futures in Puerto Rico, Beyond Crisis0
Own Way0
A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture0
Abolengo Threads0
Andaiye and Audre Lorde’s Black Transnational Sisterhood; or, “I Want You in This World”0
Appropriating Anton de Kom Today0
Bad Faith and the Contours of Black Consciousness0
Introduction0
Queer Diasporic Imaginaries in Ana-Maurine Lara’s Erzulie’s Skirt0
“Yu a Brand”0
Mervyn Morris0
Some Thoughts on Translating Blackness0
An Excerpt of Marie Léticée’s Camille’s Lakou, with a Translator’s Note0
Geoffrey Holder0
La Caldosa: Afro-Lesbian Space-Making and Transnational Politics in Havana0
Transformative Outreach: Rhoda Reddock's Life Work0
“The Intuitive Lianas of My Hands”0
Contributors0
Lucky Valley in the World0
Styling Subversion0
Unruly Diasporas0
Beyond Antagonism0
Mode of Black Life0
History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism0
Suzanne and Suzanne0
Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire0
Kith and Kin0
On the Other Side of the Shore0
Preface0
Prose0
The Colobó People: Conserving the Mangroves and Bomba Through Maroonage0
Community Building through Creative Placemaking in Bristol, England0
Universalism in Unevenness: Writing History at the Hill0
The Radical Hope of Translating Blackness0
Invisible Visibility: Passing Between the Lines0
A Heritage from Below0
Mala's Queer Silence: A Crip Reading of Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night0
Contributors0
The Trajectory of a Postnationalist0
Preface0
Dream and Dread0
Contributors0
Preface0
Queer Césaire0
Recovering Thresholds of Transoceanic Translation0
Toward a Visual Practice of Black Presencing0
Une écologie décoloniale de Malcom Ferdinand0
Considering a Principled Foundation for Renewal and Repair0
Rara avis0
The Poetics of Becoming0
The Birth of “Quow”0
The Art of Negation: Undoing Puerto Rico's Neoliberal Weather0
Skin in René Peña's Photographs: From Marker to Matter0
(W)uman Tong(ue): Writing a Bilingual Newspaper Column in “Postcolonial” Jamaica0
Serious Tings?0
A “Rich, Unexplored Field”? Race, Empire, Elision, and Belonging in Early Caribbean Studies0
What Is a Petro-state? Masking and Unmasking Power in a Fossil-Fueled World0
Echoes in the Bone: Hearing Africa in Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Caribbean0
Contributors0
Gordon Rohlehr0
Mervyn Morris on Orality and Literature in the Critical Landscape0
Contributors0
A Psychoanalytic Approach to the History of Racial Capitalism0
Prefigurings Remembered0
Canonizing De Kom0
Violent Translation: Rewriting the Archive in Moi, Tituba, sorcière . . . Noire de Salem0
Luisa Capetillo and the Pedagogy of Unruliness0
Erotic Synergies and Variances in the Sexual Vernacular of the Postcolonial Dutch Caribbean0
Decolonizing the Married Woman0
Preface0
The Soul of Racial Capitalism0
Shooting Speculation: Gordon Parks and Puerto Rican Modernity0
Widening Horizons0
“Ziggy, sé an makoumè0
Pedagogy, Textured0
Reading Luisa Capetillo0
Out of Darkness0
Blood and Noise0
Unfinished Business0
Recuperating the Value of Nothing in Erna Brodber’s Short Novel Nothing’s Mat0
Citizenship Violence and the Afterlives of Dutch Colonialism0
Denial, Disavowal, and the Deferral of Black History0
Aimé Césaire’s Yugoslav Detour0
Haitian Mawonaj, the “Picaroons,” and Re-centering the Maritime Dimensions of Maroon History0
Introducing the Forum on Catherine Hall’s Lucky Valley0
The Legacies of Luisa Capetillo0
Anticolonial Radicals in Different Registers0
Afterword0
What the Petro-state Does Do: Power in the Caribbean After 19730
Preface0
Preface0
History as Redress and Repair0
The Fire This Time0
Imagining Insurrection: On the Epilogue to A Woman Named Solitude by André Schwarz-Bart0
Luisa Capetillo and the Counter-Republic of Letters0
“The Present as History”: Walter Rodney and the Search for Usable African Pasts0
The Importance of Being (In)Authentic0
Reading for Time in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa0
Making Mas of Freedom Denied: Rhoda Reddock, Nachorious, and Postindenture Caribbean Feminism0
The Boundary of Light0
History from the Ground Up0
“Popular” and “Literary” Caribbean Historical Fiction by Valerie Belgrave and David Dabydeen0
Radiation and the Question of Power0
The Beginning is the End and the End is the Beginning0
Contributors0
Alternate Coda0
Otto Huiswoud and the Demise of the Red Black Atlantic0
Dual Power0
Off Cuts0
The Price of Slavery, the Cost of Poetry0
Embracing Our Animal Selves: The Liberatory Politics of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild0
Between Revolution and Repair: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa in a Caribbean Intellectual Tradition0
Death and Prefiguration0
Cultural Criticism and Its Generations: The Achievement of Maureen Warner-Lewis0
Translating for Future Readers: Glossing Haitian Literature in English Translation0
A Poetics of Postmourning0
Archive as Offering0
Contributors0
Simarrona: Beyond Etymologies toward a Practice of Unlearning0
Other Radicals0
From Loíza to Yauco’s Mountainous Area0
La metamorfosis de género0
Preface0
Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Work as African Recognition0
The Riddle at Bizmoune0
Of “Realities and Possibilities”0
“Al Brown,” a Routine: The Self-Styling of a Queer Afro-Panamanian0
Black Women and Their Discontents in the French Context0
Inspirations and Influences: Reflections on Some Impacts of Rhoda Reddock's Life and Work0
Caribbean Afrofutures: Opacity, Relation, and the Implications of Location0
Grace Against Time0
A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall’s Art of Living0
A Multispecies Caribbean0
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton , and Puerto Rico: On Celebrity and Necro-Colonial Decline0
Dangerous Disturbances0
Busshead Hardhead0
Patería and Contemporary Puerto Rican Queer/Trans Performance0
S’habiller sexy en body string0
Preface: The Inheritance of the Subversive 1970s0
Cimarrón and the Reordering of the Living World0
More Relevant Than Ever0
Claude McKay’s Historical Imagination0
This Is How You Become the Animal You Are So Bent on Becoming0
The Politics of Heritage in the USVI0
Dirty Martini Delivers Gender Justice0
God of Iron: The Ecological Lives of Metal, or Forging Decolonial Metallurgical Futures0
The Precarity of Intramural Theorizing0
Maroon, Fiiman, Busikondeesama: A Play on Identity in Three Speech Acts0
Seeing the World through a Puerto Rican Lens0
Pushed into Consciousness0
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