..., the essay author revisits her hesitations regarding slavery’s archive and the stakes of approaching the silences of enslaved people in the records. Drawing on pivotal work in black feminist studies, this essay rearticulates the nuances of Saidiya Hartman’s “critical fabulation” to bring attention back...

... and his complex personality, as well as his relentless but gentle commitment to advancing black liberation. Following Saidiya Hartman’s strategy of “critical fabulation” to highlight previously silenced Afro-Epistemes, the author dwells on Schomburg’s childhood, life commitment, and legacies. Part...

... and the silences in the archive, particularly the archive of enslavement. In her essay “Venus in Two Acts,” she offers the mode of critical fabulation: “The intent of this practice is . . . to imagine what cannot be verified, a realm of experience which is situated between two zones of death—social and corporeal...

... as facts, events, utterances, and even feelings. Her work provokes those of us who dare to reach beyond these limits to follow her toward what she calls “critical fabulation”—“throwing into crisis ‘what happened when’ and by exploiting the ‘transparency of sources’ as fictions of history[,] … mak[ing...

... history of the captive, and, at the same time, enacting the impossibility of representing the lives of the captives precisely through the process of narration. The method guiding this writing practice is best described as critical fabulation. “Fabula” denotes the basic elements of story...

....” Thanks to Jalani Niaah, Deborah Thomas, and Paul Thompson, who gave critical comments during the writing of this paper. 2. Emerging literature on dancehall spatiality and transnation, which blends cultural studies, cultural geography, and performance studies, include Marvin Sterling...

... acts as a workshop when it starts to exhibit a mixture of innovation and experimentation similar to what is usually attributed to poetry, something akin to what poet and literary critic Nathaniel Mackey identified in Amiri Baraka's poetry as a “testing” that projects “a world of uncertainties...

... elaborated as the product of a neglectful empire. It is in this tradition of critiquing and resisting a neglectful empire that we find critical and normative resources to think beyond the terms of our own entrapments within the terms of liberal political economy. At the outset of World War I, Marcus Garvey...

... Crusoe's triumph lies in that despairing cry which he utters when a current takes his dugout canoe further and further away from the island that, like all of us uprooted figures, he had made his home, and it is the cynical answer that we must make to those critics who complain that there is nothing here...

...Aaron Kamugisha This essay proffers a response to three critical engagements with the author’s 2019 Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition . The author contextualizes Beyond Coloniality as a book that seeks to effect a challenging alliance between...

... particular note of the role of critical theory, as well as of gender and sexuality, in the contemporary literature. Music has long been understood to be central to the lived experience of black people. But from what source does the music of “afro-sonic modernity,” as Alexander Weheliye has termed...

... to the nature of his body; will not a new definition of the body then have to be coined?”3 In 1980 at a hounfo in Croix-de-Missions, Haiti, I watched when a devotee was mounted by a lwa in service, and I knew that this was a risky, fabulous, and very fleshly matter: this proximity...

.... Examples include Edwidge Danticat’s critical assessment of the national, racial, and specifically anti-Haitian biases inherent in US immigration policies and practices as they were enacted against her disabled aging Haitian uncle seeking political refuge in the United States; Reinaldo Arenas’s...

... worsened, while surpluses continued to flow out of the country rather than being reinvested nationally. 46 Schwarz's work has been hugely consequential for recent efforts by materialist critics to reconstruct the concept of “world literature” in terms of its relationship to global capitalism. Franco...

... the ticket collector, back in a minute) during the Haitian Bicentenary conference. It seems to me that it would be more interesting to mark out the traces of a fabulous past during the turbulent present that the country is going through. Instead of looking Small Axe 18, September 2005: pp. 202...

..., and devalued by inad- equate criticism lacking in both cultural awareness and critical objectivity. While recognizing small axe 21 • October 2006 • p 150–160 • ISSN 0799-0537 SX21 • October 2006 • Mike Alleyne | 151 her critically precarious location...

... an African Americo–centrism (or black-first-worldism) that as both Marshall and Jaji agree is often the default setting for African American thought. The book’s targeting of “solidarity” was because far too much black cultural, literary, or musical criticism merely takes black solidarity for granted when...

...Obika Gray It is now commonplace to lament the enervation of social thought and the passing of an important social figure—the critical, classical humanistic intellectual as a major actor in contemporary society. This elegy for polymath political leaders and for the presumed demise of theoretically...

..., broken but refusing to hide, instead draping yourself in feathers and chains, becoming a fabulous unforgettable Junkanoo parade, and to you, who would love another who is the other (i.e., the same as you, or different from you), and to you, storyteller, rememberer, writing the books...

...Dominique Chancé This essay discusses Éloge de la créolité and Patrick Chamoiseau’s novels and later texts, arguing that créolité , or creoleness, is far more complex and ambiguous than its critics have hitherto assumed. It is not confined to the Creole language but can be expressed in French...