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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to our very own Vanessa Pérez-Rosario on her new book on Julia de Burgos!

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New Book Brings Pioneering Puerto Rican Voice to English-Speaking Readers

Professor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario offers the first comprehensive bilingual, English-Spanish collection of the poetry, essays, and letters of writer and activist Julia de Burgos.

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 3d

SX editor Davis Scott analyzes why the Marxist Left collapsed in Jamaica. “Is it merely a symptom of a wider malaise in the intellectual life of the country, or of the specific poverty—of courage as well as ideas—of the former Left intelligentsia?”

Read his Preface of SX 77, tinyurl.com/3td2jfxv

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 12d

Small Axe 77 is now available!

Angel Otero's abstract work "Prose" is featured on the cover and in the visual essay.

Check out all the contents on smallaxe.net

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 21d

Watch the video of “patería/ makoumé/ kambrada/ friend & family,” a conversation between Jacqueline Couti, Krystal Ghisyawan, Wigbertson Julian Isenia, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, moderated by Ryan Cecil Jobson and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario.
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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 29d

🗓️ Mark your calendars!
Join us in this conversation between José del Valle and SX editor David Scott about Stuart Hall’s Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity.📍Friday, September 26th, 5:00-6:00 pm at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Sep 11

The essay responds to the critiques by Gavin Arnall, Jackqueline Frost, and Grégory Pierrot of the author’s The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022).

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Sep 9

Welcome Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, who joins the Small Axe Project as the incoming sx salon Creative Editor. Roque is a poet of alluring imagery and a translator of distinction, and it is a great honor to have him in our community in this capacity. Welcome Roque!

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Sep 7

Taking exception with Nick Nesbitt’s premise qua Marx —that only free labor can produce surplus value— this essay by Grégory Pierrot argues that the polymorphic nature of slavery belies Marx’s absolutist correlation of free labor and surplus value.

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Sep 5

"On Bad Bunny's Residency" 🐰🇵🇷 by Wilfredo José Burgos Matos

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The Fragile Joy of Staying – If Only in Song: On Bad Bunny’s Residency

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Sep 3

Jackqueline Frost discusses the political poignancy of Aimé Césaire’s Marxist humanism through a reading of his 1950 Discourse on Colonialism. All of it in an open dialogue with Nick Nesbitt’s The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022)

Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/3dzejhxm

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Aug 31

This piece by Gavin Arnall enters into critical dialogue with Nick Nesbitt’s The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean (2022), by exploring the original insights but also the blind spots of the book.

Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/y3p8e53r

Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Aug 28

“Perhaps it is our ancestral connection to Mysteries that has allowed us to endure the traumas and institutionally induced amnesia incited by the violence of coloniality,” writes Lisando Curiel in the visualities section of our current issue.

Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/2wmprx7p

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Aug 17

Mervyn Morris writes on “Reading Louise Bennett, Seriously,” questioning some ideas he expressed 60 years ago, having learned from Bennett’s Jamaica Labrish (1966), and focuses on Bennett’s performance choices and on her sociopolitical commentary.
Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/yhn4k2s6

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Aug 16

This essay by Ben Etherington considers Mervyn Morris’s sustained efforts to decolonize practical criticism. It starts by revisiting the canonical references that play a central role in Morris’s early critical intervention, “On Reading Louise Bennett, Seriously.”
Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/ypnrszrc

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Aug 11

Mervyn Morris is well known as a poet, mentor, and literary critic. Carolyn J. Allen examines a lesser-known area of his activity as a theater reviewer, based on selected drafts over the most active decade of theater production in Jamaica.
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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Aug 6

In “Mervyn Morris on Orality and Literature in the Critical Landscape,” Carol Bailey examines Morris’s field-defining and groundbreaking contribution to Caribbean literary and cultural criticism, with particular emphasis on the decolonizing orientations of his work.
Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/msm6zadw

Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Aug 3

In this interview by Wayne Modest and Esmee Shoutens, artist Iris Kensmil explores recurring themes in her practice, such as Black feminist memory, histories of Black emancipation in the Netherlands, and the genre of portraiture as a practice of presencing.

Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/yc34vc9a

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Jul 31

In this essay, Sophie Maríñez analyzes the music of Luis “Terror” Días (1952–2009), a composer recognized today as the most innovative in Dominican musical history.

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Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/58sjteur

Ay Ombe - Luis Terror Días (Video Oficial 1984) | MERENGUES CLASICOS DE LOS 80's

YouTube video by Luis Terror Días

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Jul 28

René Johannes Kooiker focuses on the magazine Watapana, which published poetry, criticism, fiction, and translations from the Dutch Caribbean between 1968 and 1972, and hosted debates about the politics of language in the Papiamento- and Dutch-speaking islands.

Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/ycxah3bx

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Jul 25

Introduciendo ideas de la metamorfosis del género y la plantación, Celenis Rodríguez propone un nuevo abordaje sobre el género y la formación de las subjetividades sexo genéricas de la población negra esclavizada en la plantación caribeña.

Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/4abn6yue

Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Jul 22

Aristides Dimitriou explores how the “epistemological deficiency” that characterizes the past becomes a necessary part of the historical imagination—the historical content becomes part of the narrative form through which Édouard Glissant envisions the past.

Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/mn9vmbad

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Jul 20

In the preface, our editor David Scott reflects on memory and time, and what they bring with them when it comes to remembering what matters. The text invites us all to metaphorically —and literally— pay a visit at the Library of Things We Forgot To Remember.

Read it @ Duke tinyurl.com/5d7r8jkm

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Jul 6

sx 76 has shipped!

It includes essays by Aristides Dimitriou, Celenis Rodríguez, René Kooiker, Sophie Maríñez, and Wayne Modest and Esmee Schoutens. It features the section "Mervyn Morris: Critic of Literary Voice." We highlight artwork by Lisandro Suriel.

Check it out tinyurl.com/2s4kdx97

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · Jul 6

sx 76 has shipped!

It includes essays by Aristides Dimitriou, Celenis Rodríguez, René Kooiker, Sophie Maríñez, and Wayne Modest and Esmee Schoutens. It features the section "Mervyn Morris: Critic of Literary Voice." We highlight artwork by Lisandro Suriel.

Check it out tinyurl.com/2s4kdx97

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 7

Announcing the launch of sx salon 48. The issue includes essays by Amandla Thomas-Johnson and Stéphane Martelly, reviews by Sasha Ann Panaram, Oriana Méjías Martinez, Maddi Chan and Linzey Corridon, poems by Letitia Marie Pratt, and stories by José Darío Martínez Milantchi and Alicia Valasse-Polius.

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