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The Small Axe Project consists of this: to participate both in the renewal of practices of intellectual criticism in the Caribbean and in the expansion/revision of the scope and horizons of such criticism.
We acknowledge of course a tradition of social, political, and cultural criticism in and about the regional/diasporic Caribbean. We want to honor that tradition but also to argue with it, because in our view it is in and through such argument that a tradition renews itself, that it carries on its quarrel with the generations of itself: retaining/revising the boundaries of its identity, sustaining/
We acknowledge of course a tradition of social, political, and cultural criticism in and about the regional/diasporic Caribbean. We want to honor that tradition but also to argue with it, because in our view it is in and through such argument that a tradition renews itself, that it carries on its quarrel with the generations of itself: retaining/revising the boundaries of its identity, sustaining/
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Translations for Small Axe 65, July 2021 are now available!
Issue 65 features a special section titled “On Nancy Morejón’s Nación y mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén,” guest-edited by sx editorial committee member Antonio López. Two of the contributions to this dossier were published in Spanish, and translations from the Spanish into English are now available on the Small Axe website. Read the complete dossier here: http://smallaxe.net/content/1143
Small Axe editorial committee member Regine Jean-Charles has a new book out this month! We asked her to tell us a bit about this project. Read what she has to say about her latest book here: http://smallaxe.net/content/1142
Join us today at 10 am as we celebrate and discuss the book Caribbean Borderlands: Postnationalism Prefigured by Small Axe editorial committee member Charles Carnegie, which was published 20 years ago.
People may also attend virtually via zoom webinar. The link for the zoom registration is here:
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Join us on October 7th as we celebrate and discuss the book Caribbean Borderlands: Postnationalism Prefigured by Small Axe editorial committee member Charles Carnegie, which was published 20 years ago.
Caribbean Borderlands:
Postnationalism Prefigured @20
October 7, 2022
University of Virginia
People may also attend virtually via zoom webinar. The link for the zoom registration is here:
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New Titles from Editora Educación Emergente (EEE)~Se llamaba doña Margot
Read a description here: http://smallaxe.net/content/1140
New Titles from Editora Educación Emergente (EEE)~El entierro de Cortijo
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New Titles from Editora Educación Emergente (EEE)~de ir sé que vine
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New Titles from Editora Educación Emergente (EEE)--La coquí nómada y el mar de estrellas
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We are excited to welcome the following editorial assistants to the Small Axe Project. You can read their bios here: https://t.co/xFeGJIwTFx
We at Small Axe express our appreciation to the following editorial assistants who have worked with the journal project for the last several years. We wish them every success in their future endeavors.
See their bios here: http://smallaxe.net/content/1135
Check out David Scott's preface to sx68 available for free on Duke's website--follow the link: https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article/26/2%20(68)/vii/316363/PrefaceErna-Brodber-s-Social-Ethics-of-Black
"Erna Brodber's Social Ethics of Black Memory": David Scott's preface to sx68 available now 11 August 2022 In the preface to the latest issue of Small Axe (68), David Scott examines Erna Brodber’s work on Jamaican oral history and what can be understood as a “Social Ethics of Black Memory” mot...
Join the Center for the Study of Race, Gender & Class at the University of Johannesburg for a talk on "Black Girl Play: Re-visioning Freedom" this Wednesday, August 9 (18:00 SAST / 12:00 EDT).
RSVP or Zoom registration required: https://www.racegenderclass.org
Race:Gender:Class Presents "Black Girl Play: Revisioning Freedom" 9 August 2022 From the University of Johannesburg's Center for the Study of Race, Gender & Class 16th Helen Joseph Memorial Lecture - with Scheherazade Tillet Date: Wednesday 10th August 2022 Time: 18:00 (SAST) / 12:00 (EDT) Location:...
Small Axe 68
July 2022 is now available!
SX68 features essays by Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Jenny Sharpe, M. Myrta Leslie Santana, and Peter L. Haffner. We launch the new section Keywords in Caribbean Studies: A Small Axe Project introduced by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario and Ryan Cecil Jobson. Our first keyword is zwart, negro/a/x*, negre, and Black, and it is explored in essays by Gloria Wekker, Omaris Z. Zamora, Grégory Pierrot, and Leniqueca A. Welcome. The essay and visual essay, "everything slackens in a wreck," by Andil Gosine develops a discussion about four Caribbean artists: Wendy Nanan, Margaret Chen, Kelly Sinnapah Mary, and Andrea Chung. Kelly Sinnapah Mary's work entitled "Notebook of No Return 10: Childhood of Sanbras, 2021" also serves as this issue's cover image. Lastly, Rocío Zambrana, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, and Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús examine Ren Ellis Neyra's The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics, for the book discussion.
Link to issue: https://t.co/WFHVePzbFe
Small Axe 68 is now available! 29 July 2022 sx68 features essays by Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Jenny Sharpe, M. Myrta Leslie Santana, and Peter L. Haffner. We launch the new section Keywords in Caribbean Studies: A Small Axe Project introduced by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario and Ryan Cecil Jobson. Our first...
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Small Axe 68
July 2022 is now available!
Small Axe 68 features essays by Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Jenny Sharpe, M. Myrta Leslie Santana, and Peter L. Haffner. We launch the new annual section, "Keywords in Caribbean Studies: A Small Axe Project," introduced by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario and Ryan Cecil Jobson. Our first keyword discussion explores the terms zwart, negro/a/x*, n***e, and Black with essays by Gloria Wekker, Omaris Z. Zamora, Grégory Pierrot, and Leniqueca A. Welcome. The essay and visual essay "Everything Slackens in a Wreck," by Andil Gosine develops a discussion about four Asian Caribbean women artists: Wendy Nanan, Margaret Chen, Andrea Chung, and Kelly Sinnapah Mary. We close the issue with a book discussion of Ren Ellis Neyra's The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics with essays by Rocío Zambrana, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, and Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús.
Link to the issue: http://smallaxe.net/sx/issues/68
We are thrilled to announce Keywords in Caribbean Studies: A Small Axe Project. Several years in the making this project will launch this month in Small Axe 68, July 2022: http://smallaxe.net/sx/issues/68
"We begin with zwart, negro/a/x, n***e, and Black. Few words in Caribbean discourse (popular or scholarly) have the multiplicity of meaning and fraught history of zwart, negro/a/x, negro, Black.
The authors for our inaugural issue, , , , and have written from where they stand in this linguistic tradition, to help us open a discussion of this crucial terminology in our racial lexicon. Our inaugural collection of essays, though organized in accordance with distinct linguistic traditions of the Caribbean, remains attentive to the sites of discursive tension and spillover in which ostensibly distinct lineages combine and clash to stunning effect" ~ and Vanessa Perez-Rosario
Congratulations to sx editorial board member, Andil Gosine on his curated exhibition, "everything slackens in a wreck" that features the work of the artists Margaret Chen, Andrea Chung, Wendy Nanan and Kelly Sinnapah Mary .
The titular metaphor of wreckage evokes colonialism and the destruction left in its wake, but it also echoes what the exhibition’s curator calls the “wrecking work” of marginalized peoples who answer this destruction with art that invents its own subversive forms of order, rendering alternate visions of existence, and co-existence, imaginable, and therefore possible. Featuring the work of four artists with a shared diasporic heritage and curated by Trinidadian scholar, author and artist Andil Gosine, "everything slackens in a wreck" is the first show to appear in the Ford Foundation Gallery space since its closure in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more about the exhibition on our blog sx live.
everything slackens in a wreck @ The Ford Foundation Gallery 7 June 2022 everything slackens in a wreck Curated by Andil Gosine, features Artists Margaret Chen, Andrea Chung, Wendy Nanan and Kelly Sinnapah Mary New York, NY— The Ford Foundation Gallery will reopen its physical space with everythin...
The Ford Foundation Gallery will reopen its physical space with "everything slackens in a wreck," an exhibition curated by Small Axe editorial committee member Andil Gosine.
The exhibition runs from June 1 to August 20 2022
Read more here: http://smallaxe.net/content/1113
Small Axe mourns the passing of George Lamming on Saturday 4 June 2022. He was much more than the sum of all his remarkable literary achievements. He was above all a visionary whose work aimed to illuminate the Caribbean future in the present.
Walk good, George.
Small Axe 67, March 2022 is now available! | Small Axe Project
SX 67, March 2022 is now available! 16 May 2022 sx67 starts with essays by Warren Harding, Susan C. Méndez, Chelsea Stieber, Kathleen Donegan, Leanna Thomas, and Marta Fernández Campa. Aaron Kamugisha guest-edits our special section "Kamau Brathwaite at Ninety: In Memoriam," which features article...
The third of Editora Educación Emergente's new titles, "Archivo rural" by Vanessa Vilches Nora is a short story collection. According to Marta Aponte Alsina, the stories collected in this volume constitute “a writing of memories once censored by pain;
the author has dug deep within herself to find the right tone and exact words. Rural life in the tabaco-producing municipality that was Comerío is allowed to break free from death and forgetting. In this way, Archivo rural strings the genealogy of the father and
the extended family, with the women-led economy, or the place of women in the economy, as mothers, to***co workers, teachers. Breaking with the customary conceits of nostalgic writing, the death of the father signals instead a total
reconstruction. Vanessa Vilches Norat shows us that it is possible to write like this, illuminating a world as despised as it is repressed, in which there are still secrets, and powerful practices.”
To explore our complete catalogue of over seventy titles, please visit: portal.editoraemergente.com To purchase our books, please visit us online: editoraemergente.com. Or come to Puerto Rico, where you can find our titles in all local bookstores.
New Titles from Editora Educación Emergente (EEE) ~ Archivo rural 19 April 2022 Editora Educación Emergente (EEE), a small-scale independent publisher, established in 2009 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, is proud to announce the release of its first three titles of 2022 to the ample and diverse reading...
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From the series reVolucionA, comes "Poéticas de la devastación y la insurgencia: María y el Verano del 19" by Malena Rodríguez Castro, who weaves here a critical, theoretical, and creative tapestry, as she surveys a wealth of interdisciplinary texts. The
poetics at the center of this book document the colonial disgrace—and the disgrace of the colony—at the same time in which they enunciate, recognize, and celebrate the latent resistance that will the rescue our life in common. With analytic ingenuity,
Rodríguez Castro vindicates the art of politically committed criticism that denounces and announces. In these pages another, different, Puerto Rican archipelago comes to view: insubordinate and beautiful, in full defiance of the many forms of destruction, by way of its precise creation.
To explore our complete catalogue of over seventy titles, please visit: portal.editoraemergente.com To purchase our books, please visit us online: editoraemergente.com. Or come to Puerto Rico, where you can find our titles in all local bookstores
New Titles from Editora Educación Emergente (EEE) ~ Poéticas de la devastación y la insurgencia: María y el Verano del 19 19 April 2022 Editora Educación Emergente (EEE), a small-scale independent publisher, established in 2009 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, is proud to announce the release of its ...
Part of the Crónica Otra series, "Dos Señores muy viejos con alas enormes," by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, with illustrations by Raimundo Travieso, features, in the words of Christopher Powers Guimond, “a poetic prose mosaic that transforms a friendship from the author’s far away youth into distinct flashes of light. Author and illustrator present readers a bevy of rescued memories bathed in a sort of vindicating nostalgia. It is a work of late life. And, as such, it is austere, fragmented, virtuosic: a portrait of the then youthful artist, now turned local myth. At the same time, this intimate chronicle doubles as allegory for the socio-cultural history of both Cuba and Puerto Rico. Its multifarious references—to writings, places, and happenings—add up, on the one hand, to a catalogue of the Muñoz years, as remembered by the Puerto Rican writer, and on the other, as a collection of the many echoes of the revolution in the
Cuban artist.”
To explore our complete catalogue of over seventy titles, please visit: portal.editoraemergente.com To purchase our books, please visit us online: editoraemergente.com. Or come to Puerto Rico, where you can find our titles in all local
bookstore
Editora Educación Emergente (EEE) ~ Dos Señores muy viejos con alas enormes 19 April 2022 Editora Educación Emergente (EEE), a small-scale independent publisher, established in 2009 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, is proud to announce the release of its first three titles of 2022 to the ample and dive...
Small Axe is excited to partner with Editora Educación Emergente (EEE), a small-scale independent publisher, established
in 2009 in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. We'll be sharing news about their new titles. Stay tuned for news about future collaborations!
You can read more about their first three
titles of 2022 here: https://www.editoraemergente.com/index.php
sx66 is now live! See here: http://smallaxe.net/sx/issues/66
sx66 opens with essays by Jennifer Baez, Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi, Éric Morales-Franceschini, and Guillermina De Ferrari. Kelly Baker Josephs guest-edits our special section "Revisiting Kamau Brathwaite's Poetics of Caribbean Studies," which features essays by Josephs, Rinaldo Walcott, Nadi Edwards, Paul Joseph López Oro. Cosmo Whyte provides this issue's visual essay, "Here... but Disappeared." In the section Translating the Caribbean, Kahlila Chaar-Pérez translates "Ramón Emeterio Betances' speech at the Masonic Lodge in Port-au-Prince." Rivke Jaffe, Nadège T. Clitandre and Jhon Picard Byron close the issue by examining Greg Beckett's There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince in our book discussion.
Book Launch: The Fire That Time: Black Transnational Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation | Small Axe Project
Book Launch: The Fire That Time: Black Transnational Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation 11 January 2022 Date: Friday, January 14th 2022 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST sx salon's book review editor Ronald Cummings and sx contributor Nalini Mohabir will launch the new anthology that they...
Race:Gender:Class presents "Creole Miami: Quotidian Entanglements of the Americas” | Small Axe Project
Race:Gender:Class presents "Creole Miami: Quotidian Entanglements of the Americas” 22 November 2021 From the University of Johannesburg's Center of the Study of Race, Gender & Class Date: Wednesday, November 124h Time: 18:00 SAST / 11:00 EST Register here. “Creole Miami: Quotidian Entanglements ...
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Tami Navarro will discuss her first book, Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands, alongside
Brian Goldstone on Friday October 15th.
Read more and register for the event here: http://smallaxe.net/content/1056
Read sx editorial committee member Regine Jean-Charles' essay for Ms. magazine: "The Biden Administration’s Expulsion of Haitians Is Unconscionable—and a Missed Opportunity"
Recent expulsions of thousands of Haitian migrants show how far the U.S. has to go on immigration reform. The U.S. needs a new approach to Haiti.
Tomorrow, Andil Gosine will celebrate Colin M Robinson's 60th birthday during his Nature's Wild book tour at the
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Read more on sx live: http://smallaxe.net/content/1054
Tonight!
A conversation with Nicole Dennis-Benn and Rajiv Mohabir.
7:00pm - 8:15pm
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Registration link: https://kupferbergcenter.org/event/off-the-page-a-conversation-with-nicole-dennis-benn-rajiv-mohabir/
An online reading and conversation with acclaimed author Nicole Dennis-Benn, who will be joined by QC MFA alum Rajiv Mohabir.
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario interviewed by Poesía en acción | Small Axe Project
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario interviewed by Poesía en acción 4 June 2021 In anticipation of her translation of Boat People by Mayra Santos-Febres, Small Axe managing editor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario was interviewed by Poesía en acción for their micro-interview series. Poesía en acción also featured exc...
sx64 is now available. Learn more about the issue at http://smallaxe.net/sx/issues/64
Congratulations to Adriana María Garriga-López for receiving an honorable mention for the 2021 Blanca G. Silvestrini Award. Her awarded article, "Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico," appeared in sx62.
Read more at http://smallaxe.net/content/1026
sx62's "Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico" receives honorable mention 28 May 2021 Adriana María Garriga-López's article, "Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico" has received honorable mention for the 2021 Blanca G. Silvestrini Award for Outstanding Article in Puerto Rican Studies. ...
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