... it establishes between the two main characters of the hybrid fantasy neoslave narrative. Dana, a modern African American woman from California, is called back to the antebellum past of the Eastern Shore of Maryland to save her white great-grandfather, Rufus. The hybrid genre of Kindred...

... 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...

... claimed of the temple, “Restored in 1995 with the assistance of the then PNM-administration, [it] is part of this country’s patrimony and is considered one of our national treasures.”7 Examining the range of responses that had emerged in the wake of the act, Dana Seetahal observed that “those...

... University Press, 1982), 22; Claude Meillassoux, The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold, trans. Alide Dasnois (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991), 9–35. 10 See Joan [Colin] Dayan, “Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies,” in Russ Castronovo and Dana Nelson, eds., Materializing...

... in the direction of a recent special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies , “Queer Inhumanism,” edited by Dana Luciano and Mel Y. Chen, while pointing more directly to Zakiyyah Iman Jackson's discussion of the persistence held in the “outer worlds.” See Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, “Outer Worlds...

..., dialogic, and disjunctive—from Dana Rush's “vodunland,” a state of mind anywhere that Vodou exists and whose vast domain consists of the spirit world and its access, where verificationist epistemology has no place, to the “Whoosh!” of Richard Price's Saramaka colleague Tooy's crossing between the worlds...

... to Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature, Dana Polan cautions against the use of rhizome theory as a means of “assuag(ing) the unhappy guilty conscience of the depoliticized intellectual by off ering him or her the alibi of a process in which everything one does can be something that one can pretend...

...: (A Conversation) Reminiscence,” African American Review 38 (September 2004): 477–88. 14 Kevin Gaines, “From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism,” in Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, eds., Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics (Durham...

...: The End of the Eighth Amendment,” Boston Review , 7 October 2004, www.bostonreview.net/dayan-cruel-and-unusual , para. 48. 36 Dayan, “Held in the Body,” 225–26. 35 Dayan, “Legal Terrors,” 64. 34 Joan [Colin] Dayan, “Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies,” in Russ Castronovo and Dana D...