Contributors
- Contributors
Greg Beckett is an assistant professor of anthropology at Bowdoin College. He has published articles in Small Axe, the Journal of Haitian Studies, American Anthropologist, Social and Economic Studies, Reviews in Anthropology, and PoLAR. His main areas of interest are political theory, existential anthropology, and the history of ideas. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the lived experience of crisis in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Yarimar Bonilla is an associate professor in the departments of Latino and Caribbean Studies and Anthropology at Rutgers University. She specializes in social movements, colonial legacies, and questions of race, sovereignty, and citizenship across the Americas. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015) and is currently completing a second monograph on the politics of annexation in Puerto Rico.
Chenee Daley, the second-place winner of the 2016 Small Axe Literary Competition in poetry, is currently studying literature and music at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
Jordache A. Ellapen was born in South Africa and currently lives in the United States. He is an assistant professor of the literatures and media of Africa and the African diaspora in the Department of English at the University of Oregon. He served as a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis from 2015 to 2017. He is the coeditor of Mzansi at the Movies: Cinema and Film Culture in South Africa (forthcoming) and “We Remember Differently”: Race, Memory, Imagination (2011). He is currently writing a book, “Against Afronormativity: Queering Afro-Asian Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Blackness in South Africa,” that examines the relationship between political culture and culture politics in South Africa.
Soyini Ayanna Forde, the first-place winner of the 2016 Small Axe Literary Competition in poetry, is from Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has appeared in Apogee, Cleaver, Moko, sx salon, the Caribbean Writer, and Black Renaissance Noire. Her poetry chapbook, Taste of Hibiscus (2013), was published by Dancing Girl Press. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best American Essays. She is very interested in eating all the Julie mangoes and learning from the resilience of strong women.
Christienna D. Fryar is an assistant professor of history at SUNY Buffalo State. She is completing her first book, “The Measure of Empire: Disaster and British Imperialism in Postemancipation Jamaica,” which explores how imperial disaster politics belied contemporary popular narratives of Jamaica’s ruin in the eight decades after emancipation. She has also published in Slavery and Abolition and the Journal of British Studies. [End Page 209]
Andil Gosine is an associate professor in arts and politics at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. A conceptual artist, his solo exhibitions include Coolie Coolie Viens, coproduced by McIntosh Gallery at Western University and touring through the end of 2018. Coauthor of Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada: An Introduction (2008), his research has been published in several journals, including Topia Journal of Cultural Studies, Social Justice, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Masculinities, Sexualities, South Asian Studies, and Alternatives. He edited the groundbreaking “Sexualities” issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. More information about his research activities and arts practice is available at www.andilgosine.com.
G. A. E. Griffin is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology in the Department of Critical Theory and Social Justice at Occidental College, Los Angeles. His work on the Eastern Caribbean, some of which has previously appeared in Small Axe, concerns the critical intersection of postmodern and postcolonial theory.
Roshini Kempadoo is an international photographer, media artist, and scholar creating photographs, artwork, and writing that interprets, analyzes, and reimagines historical experiences and memories as women’s visual narratives. Recent exhibitions of work and writing include Ghosts: Keith Piper and Roshini Kempadoo (2015) and Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence, and Location of the Caribbean Figure (2016).
Sharlene Khan is a South African visual artist who uses masquerading as a postcolonial strategy to interrogate her heritage as well as the...
