...Judith Rodríguez This review essay of Rocío Zambrana’s Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) illustrates Zambrana’s own intervention into “race/gender/class” hierarchies as carrying their own relations of power within her rewriting of the “plantation complex,” using the colony of Puerto...

... of her current work in Caribbean political economy, particularly concerning figures of speculation that perpetuate the logic of the trade-plantation complex in contemporary financialized capitalism. The essay moves from the forms of economic violence generated by the link between debt and austerity...

...Curdella Forbes Curdella Forbes deploys a complex of historically marked territorial metaphors— plot, plantation, squatting, trespass , and transgression —to read two apparently different texts, Maryse Condé's quasi-tragic 1976 novel Heremakhonon , which is set on the African continent...

... that is the present. It focuses in particular on Santiago Muñoz’s Otros Usos (2014), which specifically explores Vieques, Puerto Rico. To apprehend the past that is the present requires indexing the continuity of the plantation economy, and thus its racial order, in the military complex, in the tourist economy...

.... 28 The story itself is structured around an inversion of the developmental pattern of the plantation complex in Guyana, with the horror that afflicts Milton and the Nevinsons in the interior figuring something like King Sugar's nightmare vision of its own conditions of existence and the threats...

...: The Other Worlds of Slavery,” which traces the “other worlds” enslaved people created, having been unworlded by the conditions of their enslavement. It explores four modes of departure from within the plantation complex—haunting, madness, obeah, and music. M arta F ernández C ampa is a literary...

... style of literary-cultural criticism that turned around the attempt to summon into theoretical intelligibility the paradoxical situation of the African presence in the slave and postslave plantation complexes of the New World. There is no way to even sketch here (much less detail) the rich complexity...

... in which Britons invested in Caribbean slavery show that the colonies and the metropole were linked by transatlantic ties far more complex, diverse, and wide-ranging than just those associated with the owners of sugar plantations. Draper is concerned with British metropolitan...

... for the emergence of a strong peasant society before the rise of the plantation complex, while in other parts of the Caribbean (Jamaica and Haiti) peasant society became most important precisely after slavery and the plantation complex weakened or disappeared. For Mintz, then, historical chronology is a major...

.... SX24 • October 2007 • Robert A. Hill | 3 that warrants my interpretation of him as an “intellectual dread” of the Caribbean plantation complex.5 Norman Girvan, fellow-economist and Beckford’s friend and colleague at the University of the West Indies (UWI), captured this distinctive quality...

... of Influence (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011), 30–101. 7 For a late-twentieth-century historian's response to the continued need to give account, in scholarship, of the planetary migration across time and space of what has been called the “plantation complex,” see Philip D. Curtin...

... and negotiate the multiple insecurities of the plantation complex. As a result, for ordinary Caribbean people, negotiating everyday insecurity after emancipation involved the adaptation of longstanding security strategies, including recourse to mobile practices and strategic mobilizations of place...

... of the commodity, in whose runes and markings are encrypted the historical relations of production through which Caribbean society was forged. Certainly, banking and financial institutions were a constituent part of the plantation complex, a point argued by Fernando Ortiz and described by others. “The entire...

... outer and inner plantations. The essay’s insistent emphasis on multiplicity, complexity, process, and fluidity of various modalities of creolization is reinforced by recurring metaphors of archipelagic fragmentation, spatial paradigms that demarcate ontological and epistemological divides...

.... the amerindian several; the european various; the creole plural subsistent plantation maroon multilingual multi-ethnic many ancestored fragments the unity is submarine breathing air, our problem is how to study the fragments/whole This is an exercise of enormous difficulty. 1 Not because...

... of survival. It discusses Maroon insecurity as a feeling forged in the unsettled intimacies of colonial relations. This feeling, in several ways, structured relations between Maroons and plantations and impacted the organization of daily life across both frontiers as well as the deployment of a range...

.... The purpose of contractually bound labor was explicitly to undercut emancipated laborers' abilities to negotiate fair wages and to provide planters with a substitute controlled labor force (indentureds were bound to labor on the plantation for a period of five to ten years). Vijay Mishra refers to this wave...

..., for a necessary intervention. Glissant’s visit to Faulkner’s house simultaneously rekindles and wounds Faulkner’s texts. His intervention into Faulkner’s world is a complex one: that of a Caribbean traveler, descendant of slaves, linked to Faulkner by a shared belonging to the plantation yet...

... With this, differential modes of survival emerge—creolization, the blues, maroonage, revolution, and more—revealing that the plantation, in both slave and postslave contexts, must be understood alongside complex negotiations of time, space, and terror. 11 I begin with the African Burial Ground to look...

..., “Time and the Otherwise: Plantations, Garrisons, and Being Human in the Caribbean,” Anthropological Theory 16, nos. 2–3 (2016): 177–200. 18 See Nauja Kleist and Stef Jansen, “Introduction: Hope over Time—Crisis, Immobility, and Future-Making,” History and Anthropology 27, no. 4 (2016): 373–92...