... Extending the method of subjunctive reading outlined in chapter 1, chapter 2 looks to second-wave feminist and gay liberationist histories of witchcraft, thinking about how these histories homogenize subjunctive potentiality into (overstated) indicative claims and how those histories, in failing...

... This chapter is a close reading of Maryse Condé's novel I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem . In particular, I read Condé's novel as proposing a method of subjunctive reading attuned to deictic specificity, a method that I elaborate in the rest of the book. Taking as my point of departure...

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... Examining the paucity of historical knowledge of Tituba, the only Black woman in the Salem Witch Trial archives from 1692–1693, this chapter proposes a decolonial method of subjunctive reading by examining Maryse Condé's novel, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem . Focusing on moments of queer...

..., the only Black woman in the Salem Witch Trial archives from 1692–1693, this chapter proposes a decolonial method of subjunctive reading by examining Maryse Condé's novel, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem . Focusing on moments of queer erotics and feminist speculation, and on moments of more-than-human...