... to define themselves. —David Scott, Refashioning Futures exclusionary modern identities human oneness contingency Jamaica/Caribbean trust repair renewal postnationalism © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 [email protected] 15 Scott, Conscripts of Modernity , 1. 14 Ibid., 190...

... a foundationalist narrative that conceived of cultural authenticity as identical with physical terrain. In its preoccupation with establishing a territorial identity outside of global modernity, such a narrative directed itself uniquely at those people, places, memories, and cultural forms that were seen...

... that already in the 1870s, Thomas defined creole identity as normative and national in part by contrasting it to Indian and other ethnic identities. Smith illuminates the significant role women and womanhood played in the construction of creole identity and respectable middle-class nationalism. As importantly...

... group or nation. In the case of healed or more integrated egos, the binaries that motivate exclusionary violence are incorporated into larger affi rmations of self. Such larger affi rmations change both identity and consciousness; and these new subjective formations, in turn, can...

... on women's sexual experience on the slave plantation. By focusing on the horror of slavery, more specifically the female experience of it, James further casts a searchlight on the exclusionary foundation not only of modernity and the modern nation-state but, by extension, of the postcolonial Caribbean state...

... markedly from Benítez-Rojo’s account of the sugar mill’s machinery as an exclusionary system of knowledge. Similarly, mechanization does not “crush . . . grind . . . and degrad[e]” Caribbean peoples in the way Césaire feared. Rather, Granny Nanny’s technology allows citizens to found a society largely...

... themselves with that particular country as a way of affi rming an identity that is perceived as being excluded from Britishness. By contrast, another person of the same background may also choose to challenge inclusionary and exclusionary practices and construction of the nation...

... dimensions of Haitian politics and to persuade his compatriots to think beyond exclusionary models of identity and reenter the modern, global space into which history had thrown the nation at the beginning of the nineteenth century.7 Firmin was acutely aware that the modern world cre- ates...

... in the idiom of Western political modernity has been largely reparative, redemptive, and even utopian. Aiming either to assimilate the revolution to the teleology of a now hegemonic modernity or to rewrite that modernity as potentially more radical, less exclusionary, or more heterogeneous because...

...-meaning critics, not to unsettle an exclusionary US American identity but rather to consolidate and bolster it” (138). In a recent talk about two Dominican American women performers, Maluca Mala and Amara la Negra, I found it necessary to note that US exceptionalism manifests itself in otherwise...

..., and identity anchored in the political upheavals of the Cold War. This essay examines how the contemporary Caribbean writers Julia Álvarez, Junot Díaz, and Edwidge Danticat use familial dynamics to bring forth the multifaceted and complex realities of transnational communities, dispel ideas of cultural...

... for where we will land. “(Not his real name)” may well be a parenthetical staging of a methodological and ethical imperative, one that veils the identity of the dead. However, when “Father Larry (not his real name)” corrals the boys with a razor-sharp imperative—“Prove to me that you are not a homosexual...

... discursive effects, knowledge effects, on Europe, then the question about the colonial influence on Europe’s modernity could be extended to the spiritual interiority of the modern, namely the European Enlightenment. In which case Europe could no longer be thought of as being philosophically identical...

... white, Catholic (or secular humanist) roots, the historical reality is that French identity has never been uniform or stable. Wilks argues that, although Césaire's affirmation of specificity may seem contrary to French republican ideals, her writings suggest a means of addressing the cultural-political...

... and identity that became rather fraught and occasionally exclusionary over the years (for a helpful critical summary, see Sam Whitsitt, “In Spite of It All: A Reading of Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use,’ ” African American Review 34, no. 3 [2000]: 443–59). In this small space the sisal mat can stand alone...

...: But the process was actually a bit more complicated. What is interesting is that, during the surreptitious transit from the casual to the necessary, the condition of Whiteness for modern identity turned into a condition of “ Whiteness ,” that is, its ethnic order became subordinated to the identitarian order...

... production and consider alternative responses to the issues of belonging and cultural identity evoked in the manifesto. I note in particular the absence of Haitian Spiralist writers Frankétienne and Jean-Claude Fignolé from the list of signatories, arguing that the non-inclusion of these authors strikingly...

... Ibid., 598. 45 Ibid., 635. 46 Ibid., 593. 47 Derby, “National Identity.” 48 Turit, “World Destroyed,” 613, 629, 612, 634. 49 Scott, Conscripts of Modernity , 2. 50 Edward Paulino, Dividing Hispaniola: The Dominican Republic’s Border Campaign against Haiti...

... events, it provides a decentered genealogy of contemporary globalization. It questions cultural identity as an adequate political orientation, given the non-identity of individuals with any particular culture, and given the de facto power of the sovereign to determine ultimately and at times violently...

...). In this genealogical narrative, “confinement of prisoners in the United States became an alternative to slavery, another kind of receptacle for imperfect creatures whose civil disease justified containment” (63): “The shifting identity of the slave,” in short, “was reborn in the body of the prisoner” (60). Slavery may...