Small Axe #30

Contents

Preface: Islands of Créolité?
David Scott

Relating the Francophone Caribbean
Guest-edited by Martin Munro and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

Globalization and Political Action in the Work of Édouard Glissant
Celia Britton 

From Fanon to Glissant: A Martinican Genealogy
Carine Mardorossian

Édouard Glissant and the Art of Memory
Bonnie Thomas

“We Are All Related”: Édouard Glissant Meets Octavia Butler
Valérie Loichot

Haïti en scène! Renaissance de la trilogie romanesque
Amour colère et folie sur la scène théâtrale international
Stéphanie Bérard

Disarming the Warrior of the Imaginary:
Patrick Chamoiseau and the Limits of the Aesthetics of Resistance
Stella Amélie Vincenot

On Slavery, Césaire and Relating to the World:
An Interview with Patrick Chamoiseau
Maeve McCusker

Visual Memory

Place-Presence
Thierry Tian-Sio-Po

Remembering to Invent One’s Future
Alex Burke

An Artist Smuggler of Image-Matter
Valérie John 

Memory and the Contemporary Visual Arts
of the Francophone Caribbean
Dominique Brebion

Totem and Fwomajé:
The Beginning and the Affirmation of an Artistic Language in Martinique
Patricia Donatien-Yssa

Book discussion: Alex Dupuy: The Prophet and Power:
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti;
and Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide,
and the Politics of Containment

Hallward, or the Hidden Face of Racism
Lyonel Trouillot 

Aristide and the Politics of Democratization
Nick Nesbitt

Violence and Methodology:
Reading Aristide and Lavalas after 2004
Valerie Kaussen

Indefensible: On Aristide, Violence, and Democracy
Alex Dupuy

Lyonel Trouillot, or the Fictions of Formal Democracy
Peter Hallward