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... a foreclosure of slave societies that were coeval with modern Europe, James and Du Bois reworked this narrative dialectic in their different histories of slave resistance and revolt. However, the “coloniality” forcibly forgotten in the discourse of European man cannot be accounted for with simple strategies...

... individual is developed out of the collective subjectivity of colonial slavery. Equiano’s Narrative negotiated the voices of abolition and slave resistance, and the logics of coloniality in which trade in people and goods connected Africa, plantation Virginia, the colonial West Indies, and metropolitan...

... are contrasted with the erasure of enslaved women from the colonial archive. The gendered landscape of colonial governance and slave ownership renders those women largely invisible in the narratives of slave rebellion. Chapter 6, “‘Treacherous Rogues’: Locating Women in Resistance and Revolt,” considers...

... the ruins of the Valongo, the hemisphere’s most significant slave trade wharf, have contrasted with and challenged this urban intervention. Established as a slave trade shore in the eighteenth century, this section of Rio de Janeiro’s bayside area consolidated as an important Afro-Brazilian zone...

... Women’s experience of capture and transport to the Americas was both the same as and different from that of men. Tasked with taking care of children and infants and exposed to the threat and experience of rape in slave forts and on board ships, women’s sexual vulnerability and reproductive...

... in the Mediterranean Sea; and, finally, the ship-like monuments and memorials that respond to the Middle Passage. In each instance, the chapter is concerned with thinking through the ways that the semiotics of the slave ship continue in contemporary everyday life (and are actively resisted) in the regulation of Black...

...); and (2) in these representations, accounts of popular resistance have been to a greater or lesser extent downplayed and obscured. Associated with this reliance on revolutionary heroism is a questioning of the extent to which an emphasis on the Haitian Revolution and the clear-cut judgments of success...

... Europeans worried about and dissertated on slave suicide and how vehemently and violently enslaved people were willing to die by their own hands and on their own terms. The introduction lays out the wide historical and geographic scope of The Suicide Archive and introduces its major theoretical concepts...

... Chapter 1 demonstrates how literary texts creatively mine and transform a silenced history of suicide under French slavery, using points of suicidal resistance as occasions for remaking Caribbean history. Fabienne Kanor’s fugue-like text Humus (2006) and Daniel Maximin’s quasi-epistolary novel...

... This chapter develops a theory of Black cacophony as an aesthetic of noise within language, at its limits. Black cacophony is black sonic radicality and resistance expressed via textual enactments of screaming, wailing, blabbering, moaning, howling. Reading cacophonous moments in literary...

... modernity and contemporary city geography were colonial by-products—images of social hygiene imposed from above by Iberian or French planners. This chapter features Black brotherhoods’ role in urban expansion and resists dominant white narratives of the contemporary city’s formation. It offers Black...

..., and associated with individual leaders (most notably Toussaint Louverture); and (2) in these representations, accounts of popular resistance have been to a greater or lesser extent downplayed and obscured. Associated with this reliance on revolutionary heroism is a questioning of the extent to which an emphasis...