...Nancy Bentley For diasporic African peoples, the transatlantic slave trade created a condition of “kinlessness,” a legal and social exclusion from recognized forms of family affiliation. This kinless condition, moreover, was transmitted through birth, making kinlessness a logical impossibility even...

... nationalism. Reassembling the Novel: Kinlessness and the Novel of the Haitian Revolution ELIZABETH MADDOCK DILLON To make use of the polylingualism of one’s own language, to make a minor or intensive use of it, to oppose the oppressed quality of this language to its oppressive quality...

...: Woolf, History, and the Novel 196 rita barnard Fictions of the Global 207 bruce barnhart Prolepsis and Parabasis: Jazz and the Novel 216 nancy bentley Du Bois, Kinlessness, and the Catachrestic...