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Coda
Where the book opened with a scene of archival destruction meant to ensure historical silence around socially prohibited interracial desire, I conclude with the digital photographer Roshini Kempadoo’s cover image...
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Introduction
In 1802, two French generals captured Toussaint Louverture, the black slave turned revolutionary leader, and made a significant archival discovery: they found among his belongings a box with a “false bottom,” whi...
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Postcards of Occupation
Domini can-American writer Nelly Rosario begins her 2002 novel Song of the Water Saints with an archival engagement: the opening scene stages a reenactment of the colonial postcard that pictures an unknown tropic...
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The Romance of Independence
Elizabeth Nunez’s Bruised Hibiscus (2000) opens by restaging a dramatic cover story that appeared in the local Trinidadian newspaper in 1954: a fisherman finds the body of a white woman washed ashore. Immediately...
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Re-charting Atlantic Modernities’ Desire Lines
In the late-nineteenth century, from July 8 through September 9 of 1899, The Jamaica Times published a serialized story, “The Mandarin’s Daughter: A Romance of Chinese Life,” by Wong Chin. The week preceding its ...
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Reconstituting Female Subjects in Haiti and the Diaspora
The popular media often represents the sociopolitical history of Haiti as some combination of “first free Black Republic,” “nation marked by successive political upheavals,” and the “poorest nation in the Western...
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Love in the Age of Globalized Sex Work, Secrets, and Depression
During the 2006 to 2007 season, the Dominican tourist board ran an ad, “The Inexhaustible Republic of Colors,” shown on airlines and Internet sites (such as YouTube) throughout the global north. The ad opens with...
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Introduction
In the early 1990s, I started to use the term geocriticism to refer to an aspect of my research project through which I hoped to bring a greater emphasis to space, place, and map** in literary studies; this ult...
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Textual Forests
In Latin America, transnational and multicultural spaces like the Amazon rainforest have been portrayed by politicians, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and writers as inner frontiers, as spaces of otherness. The...
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Conclusion
As an eight-year-old Australian girl, I promised to do my best ‘to serve the queen and my country, to help other people and to keep the Brownie Guide law’. Our Girl Guide ‘hut’, which had very little in common...
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Microcosms of Girlhood: Reworking the Robinsonade for Girls
A popular fascination in the late nineteenth century with ‘female Crusoes’ — women who replicated the survival feats of Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel of the same name — coincide...
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The Presencing of Place in Literature
One of the most remarkable developments within cultural and literary studies within the last fifty years has been the liberation of notions like movement, migration, multiplicity, difference, and displacement f.....
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“Amid all the maze, uproar, and novelty”
At the turn of the twentieth century, sociologists identified “promiscuous spaces, where people mingled with strangers, where boundaries were fluid, and traditional spatial segregation according to class, race, r...
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Global Positioning from Spain
In the last section of his 1957 travelogue, Pagan Spain, Richard Wright develops the provocative thesis of his book that “though Spain was geographically a part of Europe, [and] it had had just enough Western asp...
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The Shores of Aphrodite’s Island
Cyprus’s mythical aspect is well-established. Its praises as cradle of the goddess of love have been sung from Homer to Lawrence Durrell (at least), making clear Bertrand Westphal’s statement that, if “few huma.....
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Affective Map** in Lyric Poetry
Like the naturalist, the cartographer, or the surveyor, the poet’s visual and aural engagement with a landscape seeks to map and determine spaces. However, the poet’s eye is endowed with a freedom to observe an.....
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Geopolitics, Landscape, and Guilt in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Literature
In the second volume of the Australian novel of settlement, The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn (1876), a good-natured debate about colonization occurs between two Australian settlers. One of the debaters, Docto...
