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...Jane Hiddleston Frantz Fanon famously reacted to Jean-Paul Sartre’s appropriation of Negritude with the assertion that he would rebuild it with his hands, working intuitively to regrow Black subjectivity as if in the coiling form of the liana tree. Fanon’s reference to the “lianes intuitives...

..., but you still pray to Saint Lyndon Johnson for delivering us from the comunistas in ’65. My prayer differs. Like sap, that man clings to the air so let palms became palms; fingers, fronds. Teeth gnash into lianas oozing out all agony. May wrapped vines turn into arms upturned to grasp...

... a way back. No point trying to get it through here. We’ve been making our own track, hacking at Jurassic ferns and lianas to clear a path. But we have to make do. Have to keep going. The signs to this commune should be coming up soon. Had better be coming soon—didn’t realize how remote the place...

... azure silences, the way lianas knot their inseparable vine around two tree trunks sometimes, or a mast grows leaves in the heart of a forest, binding every vein, rooted in the island for the rest of their lives (58–59) The craftsmanship...

..., sometimes wholly abstract style that often made definitive, singular interpretations impossible.” 20 In response to this dilemma, Curtius invokes Césaire’s imagery of the vertiginous liana vine to craft the term lianedialectique “to show that [Césaire’s] thinking is multidimensional, that she goes off...