Small Axe 77 (July 2025) is now available. Angel Otero’s abstract work “Prose” is featured on the cover and in the visual essay.
Small Axe 77 includes essays by Carlos Garrido Castellano, C.C. McKee, Gabriel Arce Riocabo and Anna Forné, F. Joseph Sepúlveda Ortiz, and Lyndon Gill. This issue includes the fourth iteration of our Keywords in Caribbean Studiesfocused on the term “Heritage” and explored by Alyssa A. L. James, Ayana Omilade Flewellen, Khadene Harris, and Nadia Mosquera Muriel. This issue features the special section Reflections on Gordon Rohlehr and includes essays by Maureen Warner-Lewis and Hannah Regis. [. . .] The issue closes with a book discussion of Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective with essays by Marisel Moreno and Elizabeth S. Manley, and a response essay by the author.
Contents
Preface: Is There a Moral and Political History of the Jamaican Left? David Scott
What Is the Contemporary in Contemporary Caribbean Art? Carlos Garrido Castellano
Squaring the Circle: The Violence of Environmental Form in the Colonial Caribbean, C. C. McKee
Rara avis: Lengua de Pájaro de Nancy Morejón en los sesenta cubanos, Gabriel Arce Riocabo and Anna Forné
Queer Diasporic Imaginaries in Ana-Maurine Lara’s Erzulie’s Skirt, F. Joseph Sepúlveda Ortiz
Grace Against Time: AIDS Spirit Work and the Trinidad and Tobago Memorial Quilt, Lyndon Gill
Keywords in Caribbean Studies: Heritage
Tending to the Future, Alyssa James
The Politics of Heritage in the USVI: Reclaiming Afro-Caribbean Histories, Ayana Omilade Flewellen
A Heritage from Below, Khadene Harris
Abolengo Treads: Afro-Venezuelan Heritage and Afro-Cuban Spiritual Traditions, Nadia Mosquera Muriel
Remembering Gordon Rohlehr, Bookman
Words to Treasure, Maureen Warner-Lewis
Gordon Rohlehr: Context, Commitment, Legacy, Hannah Regis
Visualities
Prose, Angel Otero
Book Discussion: Lorgia García Peña, Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective
The Radical Hope of Translating Blackness, Marisel Moreno
A “Rich, Unexplored Field”? Race, Empire, Elision, and Belonging in Early Caribbean Studies, Elizabeth S. Manley
Some Thoughts on Translating Blackness, Lorgia García Peña
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