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.... L. R. James's varied coteries throughout Italy, the author argues that James's methodological innovations in the field of slave historiography were central to the formulation of strategies of refusal and flight eventually popularized in Hardt and Negri's Empire . These methodological homologies...

... and complicate easy categories and taxonomies. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 marronage flight land security colonial terror surveillance Maroon Discussions of questions of security and insecurity have often been oriented around the present. This focus on the present is in many ways...

... do you sense what dominance camouflages?” Ellis Neyra asks, exploring variations of nonsovereign, indeed unsovereign, exercises of flight (95). “What is necessary,” they continue, “when the structural effects and affective dimensions of a foreign invading power cannot just be ousted? When...

... from their home communities. Abusive domestic situations for many of the women in the novel, for example, or the economic violence that causes Désinore “the Haitian” to abscond from Haiti to Guadeloupe, characterize the oppressive and normative circumstances eliciting flight. Désinore locates...

... in the great cultural task of revolution … . Each escape, each flight was a species of marronage, the quest for a free space from where to wage the ongoing process of revolt against the cultural colonization carried out by the productive bourgeoisie who attempted to model America in its own image. —Sylvia...

... subject's rhetorical flights, or as the unarrested unquiet phantasm that, not unlike the way that Octavia Butler's protagonist of Kindred encounters it, has acquired the power to metaphorize, unbidden, into living hallucinatory stuff (or even all of the above) with which African American artists...

...” (“Initiation of Flight”), the opening poem of the first movement “Cantos rituales” (“Ritual Songs”), Rueda writes, “ Bon soir la societé ,” a phrase that commonly begins Haitian Vodou and Dominican Vodú rituals. 48 Scholars use the term Vodú (or vudu ) to underscore similarities between Haitian Vodou...

... in colonial Louisiana and the interconnected flights of those in that colony who heard about Saint-Domingue or who had arrived by boat from Santo Domingo. A further risk of returning again and again to this etymology plot of the term maroon includes a dangerous surrogation of colonized and captured...

... collection In a Green Night , to his reworking of the first lines of William Langland’s Middle English long-poem Piers Plowman for the opening of his 1979 “The Schooner Flight ,” his first major poem to make use of Creole: In idle August, while the sea soft, and leaves of brown islands stick...

..., protagonist of “1 e Schooner Flight, ” affi rms I know these islands from Monos to Nassau, a rusty head sailor with sea-green eyes that they nickname Shabine, the patois for any red nigger, and I, Shabine, saw when these slums of empire was paradise. I’m just a red nigger who love...

... in this flight that might allow us to consider the anxieties around vulnerability and degeneration that structure Douglass's account. Here, I can do little more than point 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...

..., but that simple statement utterly fails to describe the discombobulation of our first flight by Nigeria Airlines. As we found out, obtaining a ticket and turning up for the flight constituted merely the prelude to our actual flight. Having arrived at the London airport on time, on the correct date, with tickets...

... in them. Famously, in an early review, “Nightmare and Flight,” she offered the prescient suggestion that “the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life in Europe—as death became the fundamental problem after the last war.” 7 Not that Arendt’s thinking about evil has...

... 28  archM 2009 • Terry Boddie   |  177 Ferry 178  |  The Residue of Memory Jumbie 28  archM 2009 • Terry Boddie   |  179 Flight 180  |  The Residue of Memory Pulse ...

... closely at what kinds of tunnel vision the culture concept may provoke, particularly with respect to race, yet without suggesting that it be jettisoned altogether from anthropological or other analysis. I will end with a look at what I call the flight of spirits: supernatural worlds that accompany...

... as notes for future flight. Her ethos of leaving open the possibilities of mutual, open cues are how we might forge a feminist transformation of a DJ battle. The idea is to add to, not to outdo, a cumulative flooding of the room with sounds with no worry about how they might be presumed to fit or not fit...

... are too complex to delve into here, but it suffices to highlight the portrait’s effort to elevate competing forms of authority and identity emerging from shared experiences of flight and resistance among the Indigenous and African peoples in the region. As a concept, cimarrón originated as a discursive...

... movement” and presents us with “an alternative genealogy of performance art, one in which a Caribbean queen reigns high” (182). What happens at this moment is a reshifting of performance art history—one whose flight plan is no longer created and executed by heteronormativity, patriarchy, Europeanism...

... he’d come back as a bird, but I believe the birds had heard the news, for he had been the best shot, so they had sent knowing flights to see that this giant...

... the speculators Carnegie reads in relation to Scott’s always-in-flight “masterless Caribbean.” Like Carnegie, Sweeney reaches beyond marronage as militarized sovereignty to call in quotidian practices such as hiding in plain sight and impersonating the not-free in order to live free in spaces within (rather than...