...Valérie Loichot This essay sheds light on family relations in Octavia Butler's fantasy neo-slave narrative Kindred (1979) through Édouard Glissant's theories of kinship and Relation. This comparative gesture thus relate Glissant's Caribbean texts to an unlikely kin, a Californian African American...

... to theorize a Jamaican diaspora. I want to interpret processes through which people might imagine diasporan selves, as well as these selves' relationships to home and receiving countries. In “Defining Diaspora, Refining a Discourse,” Kim Butler suggests that “the diasporan scholar” move away from...

... questions surrounding the relation of performativity and performance, working with Judith Butler's notion of gender performativity—and the notion of citationality or repetition over time that underwrote it—and actual “live” performance. The central question that Butler has perhaps faced (at least between...

... on outlines and shadows. Judith Butler's definitions of the abject help us to develop this inside/outside existence to understand how social media outlets such as YouTube and Snapchat become powerful platforms for bodies elsewhere denied. “The abject for me,” Butler notes, “relates to all kinds of bodies...

... with a “communicative capacity” related either to man as a particular species, or man as a reasonable being—either way, man as essence. If the shared end of communicability is reduced to a communicative capacity, then, a substantive claim about human nature is implied. As Judith Butler writes in a critique of Seyla...

... was delayed by technical and personal issues. Janet Butler Haugaard had spent hours in front of a tape recorder before finally presenting a readable, clear transcription of the George Lamming and Gordon K. Lewis interview that both writers agreed on. However, before we could publish, Janet lost her life...

... march” to Port of Spain, led by a sincere and talented orator, Uriah Butler, a former oilfield worker turned radical preacher.25 Cipriani disavowed both the “unconstitutional” demonstration and Butler himself, despite the agitator’s membership in the 20 Ralph Mentor, “A Study of Mr. James...

...-than-human. —Judith Butler, Undoing Gender As academics, our disciplinary training grants us some degree of vision, but does so with profound conditions of myopia. Myopia, somewhat ironically, is the very source of mainstream disciplinary power. Among the narratives of (post)modernity’s...

... with Judith Butler’s argument that heterosexuality is paranoid about safeguarding its own inse- cure identity, evident in its desire to “eradicate” homosexuality on which it simultaneously depends for its own validity. Perhaps Butler could take instruction from Dollimore’s critique of her...

... Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry (Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2001). 12 Ibid., 179. 13 Kobena Mercer, “Avid Iconographies,” in Mercer and Darke, Isaac Julien, 8. 14 Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits...

... sketched by de Certeau, Octavia Butler’s Kindred offers a model for a practice.43 When Dana, the protagonist of Butler’s speculative fiction, travels from the twentieth century to the 1820s to encounter her enslaved foremother, Dana finds to her surprise that she...

... rather than fi xed or ontological. Th ey are, in Judith Butler’s paradoxical phrase, “contingent foundations “Let me put it this way,” Stuart remarks, deploying a handy pedagogical instance, “you have to be 6. Judith Butler, “Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question...

... Neyra’s remarkable reading of Pedro Pietri’s The Masses Are Asses alongside the texts of, among others, Judith Butler, G. W. F. Hegel, and Hortense Spillers. I would have liked to follow closely the movement of Ellis Neyra’s thinking as they show how Pietri’s play could be read as an allegory...

... the country, and the colonial authorities were concerned that they would return with ideas of Butlerism and cause unrest on the island similar to that in the other territories.14 Despite the concern about potential unrest, however, the colonial authorities and the elite seemed reluctant...

...). 6 The negotiative agency that is central to in/security distinguishes it from precarity, as developed by Judith Butler, who explains that the precariat are made vulnerable because of processes of precaritization that are managed through governmentality: precarity is distributed as an effect...

... Gosine, introduction to Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021), 1–2; hereafter cited in the text. 3 In this framing, I am of course thinking of Judith Butler’s discussion of performativity and our interpellation into discourses as “an act...

... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). For a sense of the larger Legacies of British Slave-Ownership project at University College London, of which Draper’s book is now one aspect, see www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs. 8 On the impact of the compensation in the colonies, see Kathleen Mary Butler...

... who we are and want to be.21 What Cornell does not quite capture is how that image of ourselves is bound up in the vulnerability of our bodies, so that, according to Judith Butler, we are as bodies “more than”, “other than” and “outside” ourselves and belong to one another, and “‘association...

... population: White evangelical Christians. As noted by many historians like Anthea Butler, White Christian evangelicals often mask their discontent with progressive racial policies in Christian rhetoric that framed their public arguments through a discourse of religious liberty and freedom. 16 This all...