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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Minister of Mercy Is a Homegirl11
Preface: Honor to the Work11
What Lies Here, Beyond Boundary?9
The Clandestine Philosophy of Graffiti in Port-au-Prince3
Contributors3
Preface: The Duty of Criticism2
Pretty Pretty2
Discours au Salon maçonnique de Port-au-Prince1
Where and When Is Crisis?1
Pan-Africanism and the Works and Lives of Otto and Hermina Huiswoud1
The Complicated Legacies of a Comrade Sister1
Anti-Blackness and Other Fears of Black Consciousness1
Considering a Principled Foundation for Renewal and Repair1
Régine Jean-Charles’s Black Feminist Ethical Reading of Twenty-First-Century Haitian Women’s Fiction1
Walking Duermevelas with Luisa1
Macandal. Makandal. Mackandal.” Man and Protean Pluralema1
How Do You Translate Compaña?1
Représentations de l’Afrique dans l’imaginaire haïtien au vingtième siècle1
Noising Creole Abroad: Chatting about Voice; Some Thoughts on Belinda Edmondson’s Creole Noise1
From Haiti to Congo1
Displacing Wij slaven van Suriname1
Preface1
Abduction and the Grounds of Caribbean Reasoning1
The Questions Kamau Asked of Us1
Embracing Our Animal Selves: The Liberatory Politics of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild1
Organizing Pessimism Redux1
Suzanne and Suzanne0
What Happens to Black in the Afro-Surinamese Transatlantic Diaspora?0
Preface0
Maureen Warner-Lewis, Friend and Colleague0
Geoffrey Holder0
Contributors0
The Dundus and the Chineyman0
An Excerpt of Marie Léticée’s Camille’s Lakou, with a Translator’s Note0
A Poetics of Postmourning0
Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue0
Queer Césaire0
A Multispecies Caribbean0
The Beginning is the End and the End is the Beginning0
Contributors0
The Politics of Style in “Caribbean Man in Space and Time”0
Cultural Criticism and Its Generations: The Achievement of Maureen Warner-Lewis0
Luisa Capetillo and the Counter-Republic of Letters0
In Conversation with History0
Reading for Time in How Europe Underdeveloped Africa0
Unfinished Business0
“The Intuitive Lianas of My Hands”0
“The Present as History”: Walter Rodney and the Search for Usable African Pasts0
Pedagogy, Textured0
Preface0
Introduction: Literature and the State in Nancy Morejón0
Life Unadministered0
La Caldosa: Afro-Lesbian Space-Making and Transnational Politics in Havana0
Here . . . but Disappeared0
The Importance of Being (In)Authentic0
The Legacies of Luisa Capetillo0
Citizenship Violence and the Afterlives of Dutch Colonialism0
Recuperating the Value of Nothing in Erna Brodber’s Short Novel Nothing’s Mat0
Prefigurings Remembered0
The Trajectory of a Postnationalist0
To Be Black Is to . . .0
The Birth of “Quow”0
Contributors0
Transformista, Travesti, Transgénero0
The Dual Biopolitics in the Cuban Postplantation of Gloria Rolando’s Raíces de mi corazón0
Contributors0
Universalism in Unevenness: Writing History at the Hill0
The Limits of Repair0
Whose Dialectic? Walter Rodney, Marxism, and Africa0
Haitian Mawonaj, the “Picaroons,” and Re-centering the Maritime Dimensions of Maroon History0
Bad Faith and the Contours of Black Consciousness0
Not a Usual Man0
Black Women and Their Discontents in the French Context0
Mode of Black Life0
Transnational Renderings of Negro/a/x/*0
Blood and Noise0
Beyond Antagonism0
Seeing the World through a Puerto Rican Lens0
Contributors0
Community Building through Creative Placemaking in Bristol, England0
Sensorial Errancy in Decolonial Key0
A Return to the Anticolonial0
Preface0
Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow0
Daniel Maximin’s Lone Sun0
IMPRINT0
Ghosts in Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints and Angie Cruz’s Soledad0
Redefining Mestizaje: How Trans-Caribbean Exchanges Solidified Black Consciousness in Cuba0
Black Caribs / Garifuna: Maroon Geographies of Indigenous Blackness0
Introduction0
When Tía Ate the Telegram0
Alternate Coda0
Dangerous Disturbances0
“We Are Animal. So What?”0
Insurgent Knowledges: Reading How Europe Underdeveloped Africa alongside the Rupture in Guyana0
Widening Horizons0
Preface0
Not Dead Yet0
Contributors0
Notes on Radical Hope; or, The Ethical Turn in Anthropology0
Andaiye and Audre Lorde’s Black Transnational Sisterhood; or, “I Want You in This World”0
Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Work as African Recognition0
A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall’s Art of Living0
Denial, Responsibility, Bad Faith, and Blues in Lewis Gordon’s Fear of Black Consciousness0
Caribbean Studies in Digital Space and Time0
White Mythologies0
Simarrona: Beyond Etymologies toward a Practice of Unlearning0
S’habiller sexy en body string0
Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures0
Nègre (Noir, Black, Renoi, Négro)0
Peasant Sensibility and the Structures of Feeling of “My People” in George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin0
This Is How You Become the Animal You Are So Bent on Becoming0
“Inner Plantation”: Caribbean Studies, Black Studies, and a Black Theory of Freedom0
Disturbing the Neighbors0
Kith and Kin0
Epic Humor: Elpidio Valdés and the Mythopoetics of Populist Laughter0
“Ziggy, sé an makoumè0
Contributors0
Sounding Jamaican—After Carolyn Cooper0
Off Cuts0
Erotic Synergies and Variances in the Sexual Vernacular of the Postcolonial Dutch Caribbean0
Death and Prefiguration0
A Caribbean Coast Feeling: On Black Central American Women’s Landscape Portraiture0
Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica0
Anacaona Writes Back: The Columbus Statue in Santo Domingo as a Site of Erasure0
Deceptive Benevolence: Witnessing Whiteness in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano0
The Specificity of the Ordinary0
The Precarity of Intramural Theorizing0
Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire0
Secretions of Subjectivity0
Appropriating Anton de Kom Today0
Everything Slackens in a Wreck0
Preface0
Of “Realities and Possibilities”0
Aimé Césaire’s Yugoslav Detour0
Her Name Was Doña Margot0
Between Revolution and Repair: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa in a Caribbean Intellectual Tradition0
Animal History; Animal Future?0
Contributors0
The (Im)Possibility of Black Repair0
Criminalization on a World Scale0
Nation, Race, and Performance in the Poetics of Nicolás Guillén and Nancy Morejón0
Preface0
The Boundary of Light0
Styling Subversion0
At the Crossroads of Many Worlds0
History, Method, and Myth: Walter Rodney and the Geographies of Black Radicalism0
Busshead Hardhead0
Dirty Martini Delivers Gender Justice0
Preface0
Other Radicals0
Din as Discourse in the Anglophone Caribbean0
Mas yo resto: Entrevista con Nancy Morejón0
Reading Luisa Capetillo0
Echoes in the Bone: Hearing Africa in Maureen Warner-Lewis’s Caribbean0
(W)uman Tong(ue): Writing a Bilingual Newspaper Column in “Postcolonial” Jamaica0
Otto Huiswoud and the Demise of the Red Black Atlantic0
Afterword0
Jews and Frenchies: The White Ethnic Minority in the US Virgin Islands0
“Yu a Brand”0
Nancy Morejón, Nicolás Guillén y el cimarronaje aún necesario en Cuba contemporánea0
Unruly Diasporas0
The Fire This Time0
Out of Darkness0
From Loíza to Yauco’s Mountainous Area0
Contributors0
Gender and the Americanist James0
Inside the Circle0
Cimarrón and the Reordering of the Living World0
Decolonizing the Married Woman0
Archive as Offering0
A Literary Friendship0
Kamau at Ninety0
Patería and Contemporary Puerto Rican Queer/Trans Performance0
Contributors0
The Nature of Ruins0
Caribbean Man in Space and Time0
Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and “Failed” Nations: Haiti and Jewish Refugees in the 1930s0
Absence and Disappearance0
Caribbean Freedom beyond Coloniality0
Preface0
Pushed into Consciousness0
Canonizing De Kom0
Haitian Feminist Futures0
Modern Dermabrasions0
Maroon, Fiiman, Busikondeesama: A Play on Identity in Three Speech Acts0
“A New Rhythm Starts Immediately”0
Luisa Capetillo and the Pedagogy of Unruliness0
Anticolonial Radicals in Different Registers0
More Relevant Than Ever0
Dancing in an Enclosure0
Keywords in Caribbean Studies0
“The Antilles for the Sons of the Antilles”: On Translating Ramón Emeterio Betances0
Kamau Brathwaite, a Memoir0
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