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vii contents Acknowledgments ix Chronology xi Abbreviations xv 1. Contexts and Intertexts 3 2. Insurgent Performance Works 32 3. Vernacular Forms and Wandering Genres 59 4. Créolité, Community, and the Word Scratcher 95 5. Autoethnographic Fictions of Childhood 130 6. Initiating the Warrior of the Imaginary 154 7. Visual Texts and the Revolutionary Epic 185 8. Activism and Tales of Initiation 212 Notes 239 Select Bibliography 261 Index 271 This page intentionally left blank ...

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