Issues

Features essays by Alexandra Perisic, Dashiell Moore, and David Scott. The special section on Maureen Warner-Lewis includes the work of Warner-Lewis herself, Velma Pollard, Faith Smith, Rhonda Cobham-Sander, as well as Victoria Collis-Buthelezi. The annual Keywords in Caribbean Studies section examines the terms Cimarrón, Marron, Maroon with contributions by Ileana Rodríquez-Silva, SJ Zhang, Johnhenry Gonzalez, and Corinna Campbell. This issue's visual essay and cover image showcase the work of Nadia Huggins. The book discussion engages Andil Gosine's Nature's Wild, with essays by Kedon Willis, Rajiv Mohabir, Michelle Rowley, and Andil Gosine in response. 

Includes essays by Najnin Islam, Sasha Ann Panaram and Tohru Nakamura. Wayne Modest and Susan Legêne guest-edit the special section entitled "Anton de Kom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition" -- with contributions by Mitchell Esajas, Markus Balkenhol, Olivia Gomes da Cunha, Karwan Fatah-Black and Guno Jones. This issue's visual essay and cover image feature IMPRINT by Shannon Alonzo. The book discussion engages Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel with essays by Grace Sanders Johnson, Shanna Jean-Baptiste, and Tobias Warner. 

Includes essays by Grace L. Sanders Johnson, Audra Diptee, Ben Etherington and Natalie Catasús. Julio Ramos guest edits our special section, “The Legacies of Luisa Capetillo,” with contributions by Nancy Bird-Soto, Luis Othoniel Rosa, Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa and Jorrell A. Meléndez-Badillo. Luis Carle's work is featured on the cover and in this issue’s visual essay, “Dirty Martini Delivers Gender Justice.” In our “Translating the Caribbean” section, Raquel Salas Rivera asks, “How Do You Translate 'compaña'?” The book discussion features Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution by Laurie Lambert.

Features essays by Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Jenny Sharpe, M. Myrta Leslie Santana, and Peter L. Haffner.  We launch the new section Keywords in Caribbean Studies: A Small Axe Project introduced by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario and Ryan Cecil Jobson. Our first keyword is zwart, negro/a/x*, negre, and Black, and it is explored in essays by Gloria Wekker, Omaris Z. Zamora, Grégory Pierrot, and Leniqueca A. Welcome. The essay and visual essay, "everything slackens in a wreck," by Andil Gosine develops a discussion about four Caribbean artists: Wendy Nanan, Margaret Chen, Andrea Chung, and Kelly Sinnapah Mary. Lastly, Rocío Zambrana, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, and Ronald Mendoza-de Jesus examine Ren Ellis Neyra's The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics, for the book discussion

Starts with essays by Warren Harding, Susan C. Méndez, Chelsea Stieber, Kathleen Donegan, Leanna Thomas, and Marta Fernández Campa. Aaron Kamugisha guest-edits our special section "Kamau Brathwaite at Ninety: In Memoriam," which features essays by Kamugisha, Lorna Goodison, Timothy J. Reiss, Gordon Rohlehr, and Elaine Savory. The Bahamian interdisciplinary visual artist, Gio Swaby, provides this issue's visual essay. Lastly, Kevon Rhiney, Patricia Noxolo, and Beverley Mullings analyze and examine Jovan Scott Lewis's Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica in our book discussion. 

Opens with essays by Jennifer Baez, Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi,  Éric Morales-Franceschini, and Guillermina De Ferrari. Kelly Baker Josephs guest-edits our special section "Revisiting Kamau Brathwaite's Poetics of Caribbean Studies," which features essays by Josephs, Rinaldo Walcott, Nadi Edwards, Paul Joseph López Oro. Cosmo Whyte provides this issue's visual essay, "Here... but Disappeared." In the section Translating the Caribbean, Kahlila Chaar-Pérez translates "Ramón Emeterio Betances' speech at the Masonic Lodge in Port-au-Prince." Rivke Jaffe, Nadège T. Clitandre and Jhon Picard Byron close the issue by examining Greg Beckett's There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince in our book discussion. 

Presents essays by Nadège Veldwachter, Mark Harris, César Colón-Montijo, Sarah Margarita Quesada and Lomarsh Roopnarine. Antonio López guest-edits the special section, "On Nancy Morejón’s Nación y Mestizaje en Nicolás Guillén" which includes essays by Devyn Spence Benson, Odette Casamayor, Aisha Z. Cort, and an interview with Morejón by Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. Dominican textile artist/designer Carol Sorhaindo doubles as our cover artist and visual essayist with her series "The Nature of Ruins." The issue then concludes with a book discussion of Aaron Kamugisha's Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition.

Includes essays by Yohann C. Ripert, Katey Castellano and Sarah Phillips Casteel. Editorial committee member Aaron Kamugisha  guest-edits our special section "On Caribbean Intellectual History," which features essays by Anne Eller, Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi, Margo Groenewoud, Monique Bedasse and Marlene L. Daut. The work of St. Martin audiovisual artist Deborah Jack graces our front cover and her series "what is the value of what if it doesn't quench our thirst for . . ." features as our visual essay. The book discussion of this issue focuses on Imperial Intimacies Child of Empire: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V. Carby

Showcases essays by Corine Labridy-Stofle, Lucy Swanson, Carlos Garrido Castellano and Magdalena Lopez. Following Small Axe's 2019 symposium of the same name, this issue's special section, "The Jamaican 1950s," is guest-edited by Deborah A. Thomas and features essays by Tracy Robinson, Matthew Chin, Tao Leigh Goffe, Keisha Lindsay, O'Neil Lawrence, Ronald Cummings and Donette Francis. Martinican photographer and cover artist Robert Charlotte presents his series "Sous influence" for our visual essay. sx63 then closes with a book discussion of Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness, edited by David Austin.