Small Axe 56 is now available!
Small Axe 56 is now available!
16 July 2018
This issue Includes essays by Kate Perillo, Minkah Makalani, and Tao Leigh Goffe. We also include an excerpt of Angie Cruz's forthcoming novel, "Dominicana." The issue features a special section titled, "Contemporary Dominican Gender and Sexualities Studies," guest-edited by Maja Horn, with essays by Elizabeth S. Manley, Sharina Maillo-Pozo, Ana Maurine Lara, Danny Méndez, Rachel Afi Quinn, Dixa Ramírez, Carlos Ulises Decena and Fátima Portorreal. Our visual essay "Memories Afloat" features work by our cover artist, Scherezade García. In 2017, the Small Axe Literary Competition was run in Spanish for the first time, and this issue features the winners, for poetry, Noel Pérez García and Abraham Fidel Ortiz Lugo,and for short fiction, Sarah Rubí Ortiz Rodríguez and Aquiles Sánchez Villaman. Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture is discussed by D. Alissa Trotz and Gabrielle Jamela Hosein.
See our full table of contents here: http://smallaxe.net/sx/issues/56