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“If you are a big tree, we are a small axe.” So goes a Jamaican proverb, famously popularized by Bob Marley. It is a proverb with wide Caribbean resonance: a “small axe” is a subaltern agency of criticism. The inspiring ethos that informs this idea is that relatively marginal voices of creativity and dissent can have disproportionate critical effects at least insofar as they remain responsive and attuned to the changing contexts of our Caribbean life in the global world. We aim to embody this ethos. Thus the aim of the Small Axe Project is to participate both in the renewal of practices of intellectual and cultural criticism in the Caribbean and in the expansion and revision of the scope and horizons of such criticism. We acknowledge of course a tradition of criticism in and about the regional and 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 overlapping generations of itself: at once retaining and revising the boundaries of its identity, sustaining and altering the shape of its self-image, defending and resisting its conceptions of history and community. It seems to us that many of the conceptions that guided the formation of our Caribbean modernities—conceptions of class, gender, nation, culture, race, for example, as well as conceptions of sovereignty, development, and democracy—are in need of substantial rethinking.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States Established in 1997

Publication Media & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic PublicationPublished 3 x per year.
Print Publication Print PublicationPublished 3 x per year.

Nonfiction Believed Defunct

Audience:
Scholars.
Styles:
Academic, Critical.
Topics:
Anthropology (Cultural anthropology, See guidelines), Place/Regions (Specific region), Politics/Political Science (See guidelines), Society/Culture (See guidelines), Sociology (See guidelines), Other (See guidelines).
Types/Lengths:
TypeLength Details
Article ArticleUp to 7,500 words.
Essay EssayUp to 7,500 words.
Payscale:
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No monetary payment No monetary payment.
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Dates

Last Updated: 04 Dec 2023
Date Added: 22 Feb 2017

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