small axe 68 (July 2022) is now accessible. The quilt (above) options “Pocket book of No Return 10: Childhood of Sanbras,” 2021, by Kelly Sinnapah Mary.
Description: Small Axe 68 options essays by Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Jenny Sharpe, M. Myrta Leslie Santana, and Peter L. Haffner. We launch the brand new annual part, “Key phrases in Caribbean Research: A Small Axe Challenge,” launched by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario and Ryan Cecil Jobson. Our first key phrase dialogue explores the phrases zwart, negro/a/x*, nègre, and Black with essays by Gloria Wekker, Omaris Z. Zamora, Grégory Pierrot, and Leniqueca A. Welcome.
The essay and visible essay “All the things Slackens in a Wreck,” by Andil Gosine develops a dialogue about 4 Asian Caribbean ladies artists: Wendy Nanan, Margaret Chen, Andrea Chung, and Kelly Sinnapah Mary.
We shut the challenge with a guide dialogue 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. See http://smallaxe.web/sx/points/68