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This introduction provides initial framing and context for the book. Specific reference is made to the connections between rhetoric and nonfiction, as well as the conception of audience. It argues that Caribbean blackness is understood through a meditation on the rhetorical art of “story|ing.” This is further understood through “transmediality” with the intersections and deliberative utilizations of multiple forms and genres—written words, photographs, and material objects. As such, the essay itself is a demonstration of Caribbean blackness in practice.

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Brown
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Dennis
.
“How Could I Leave.”
Single
.
Kingston, Jamaica
:
Joe Gibbs Records
,
1976
, vinyl.
Black Stalin [Leroy Calliste]
.
“Caribbean Unity (Caribbean Man).”
Track 2 on
To the Caribbean Man
.
New York
:
Makossa
,
1979
, vinyl.
Bob Marley and the Wailers
.
“Redemption Song.”
Track 10 on
Uprising
.
Kingston, Jamaica
:
Tuff Gong
,
1980
, vinyl.
Explainer [Winston Henry]
.
“Lorraine.”
Track 4 on
Man from the Ghetto
.
Brooklyn, NY
:
Charlie's Records
,
1981
, vinyl.
Jackson
,
Millie
.
“If Loving You Is Wrong I Don't Want to be Right.”
Track 1 on
Caught Up
.
New York
:
Spring Records
,
1974
, vinyl.
Knight
,
Gladys
.
“Midnight Train to Georgia.”
Track 1 on
Imagination
.
New York
:
Buddah Records
,
1973
, vinyl.
Lord Kitchener [Aldwyn Roberts]
.
“The Road Make to Walk (on Carnival Day).”
Single
.
Chicago
:
Jump Up Records
,
1963
, vinyl.
Mighty Shadow [Winston Bailey]
.
“Bass Man.”
Single
.
Brooklyn, NY
:
Straker's Records
,
1974
, vinyl.
Mighty Shadow [Winston Bailey]
.
“Pay de Devil.”
Track 1 on
Dingolay
.
Barbados
,
Kisskidee Records
,
1994
,
vinyl.
Roaring Lion [Raphael De Leon]
.
“Papa Chunks.”
Track 1 on
Vive Le King
.
Barbados
:
Ice Records
,
1995
, compact disc.
Rudder
,
David Michael
.
“Haiti.”
Track 2 on
Haiti
.
London
:
London Records
,
1988
, vinyl.
Simone
,
Nina
.
“Ne me quitte pas.”
Track 1 on
I Put a Spell on You
.
Amsterdam
:
Philips Records
,
1965
, vinyl.
Simone
,
Nina
.
“Sinnerman.”
Track 9 on Pastel Blues
.
Amsterdam
:
Philips Records
,
1965
, vinyl.
Videography
Philbert
,
Jamie J.
Bound: A Free, Spellbound, Humming
.
University of Limerick Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
,
2022
.
Vimeo video, 5:32
, https://vimeo.com/781949227.
Philbert
,
Jamie J.
Patterns of Freedom
.
University of Limerick Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
,
2023
.
YouTube video, 7:49
, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivoYMHz16m4.
Rudder
,
David Michael
.
“Calypso Music.”
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Roland
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
.
New York
:
Hill and Wang
,
2010
.
Bénitez-Rojo
,
Antonio
.
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
. Translated by
James
Maraniss
.
Durham, NC
:
Duke University Press
,
1987
.
Blake
,
William
.
Milton: A Poem in Two Books
.
London
,
1804
10
.
Brand
,
Dionne
.
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
.
Durham, NC
:
Duke University Press
,
2018
.
Brand
,
Dionne
.
A Map to the Door of No Return
.
Toronto, ON
:
Doubleday Canada
,
2001
.
Brito
,
Renata
, and
Felipe
Dana
.
“Adrift.”
Associated Press
,
April
12
,
2023
.
Browne
,
Kevin Adonis
.
Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean
.
Pittsburgh, PA
:
University of Pittsburgh Press
,
2013
.
Campt
,
Tina
.
Listening to Images
.
Durham, NC
:
Duke University Press
,
2017
.
Césaire
,
Aimé
.
A Tempest
. Translated by Richard Miller from Une Tempête (1969).
New York
:
Theatre Communications Group
,
1997
.
Glissant
,
Édouard
.
Poetics of Relation
. Translated by
Betsy
Wing
.
Ann Arbor
:
University of Michigan Press
,
2010
.
Hartman
,
Saidiya
.
“Venus in Two Acts.”
Small Axe
26
(
2008
):
1
14
.
Jackson
,
Zakiyyah Iman
.
On Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
.
New York
:
New York University Press
,
2020
.
James
,
C. L. R.
Beyond a Boundary
. 50th anniversary ed.
Durham, NC
:
Duke University Press
,
2013
.
James
,
C. L. R.
The Black Jacobins
.
New York
:
Vintage
,
1989
.
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,
C. L. R.
Minty Alley
.
London
:
Secker and Warburg
,
1936
.
Lovelace
,
Che
.
Che Lovelace: Paintings 2004–2008
.
Trinidad and Tobago Art Series
.
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
:
Robert and Christopher
,
2008
.
Lovelace
,
Earl
.
The Dragon Can't Dance
.
London
:
André Deutsch
,
1979
.
Mbembe
,
Achille
.
Necropolitics
.
Durham, NC
:
Duke University Press
,
2019
.
Naipaul
,
V. S.
The Loss of El Dorado: A History
.
London
:
André Deutsch
,
2003
.
Sharpe
,
Christina
.
Ordinary Notes
.
Toronto, ON
:
Knopf Canada
,
2023
.
Spillers
,
Hortense J.
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Diacritics
17
, no.
2
(
1987
):
64
81
.
Stedman
,
John Gabriel
.
The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolting Slaves of Surinam
. First Edition.
London
:
J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, and J. Edwards, Pall Mall
,
1796
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Stothard
,
Thomas
.
“Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies.”
In
Bryan
Edwards
,
History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
, Third Edition.
London
:
printed for J. Stockdale
,
1801
.
Strauss
,
Benjamin
, and
Scott
Kulp
.
Sea-Level Rise Challenges in the Caribbean: Data, Tools, and Analysis for a More Resilient Future
.
Princeton, NJ
:
Climate Central
,
2018
.
Thistlewood
,
Thomas
.
The Diaries of Thomas Thistlewood, 1721–1786
.
Thomas Thistlewood Papers. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
,
New Haven, CT
.
Walcott
,
Derek
.
“The Schooner Flight.”
In
Collected Poems 1948–1984
,
328
.
New York
:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
,
1986
.
Walcott
,
Derek
.
“The Spoiler's Return.”
In
Collected Poems 1948–1984
,
432
.
New York
:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
,
1986
.
Wynter
,
Sylvia
.
“Rethinking ‘Aesthetics’: Notes towards a Deciphering Practice.”
In
Ex-iles: Essays on Caribbean Cinema
, edited by
Mbye
Cham
,
237
80
.
Trenton, NJ
:
Africa World Press
,
1992
.
Wynter
,
Sylvia
.
“Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, after Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument.”
cr: The New Centennial Review
3
, no.
3
(
2003
):
257
337
.
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