Diasporic Disciplining of Caliban?: Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Intra-Caribbean Politics

In her contribution, Braziel resists Torres-Saillant’s valorization of diaspora as the antidote to national paradigms. As an organizing rubric, “Caribbean diaspora” obscures nationality, class, race, gender, sexuality, and political economy as striating diasporas and diasporic communities; it ignores the fact that there is not one Caribbean diaspora but many. Diasporas are fractured landscapes: not only oppressed individuals but also corrupt presidents and even petty but violent Calibans are part of out-migratory waves that constitute diasporic formations abroad, or form the long-arm, transnational tentacles of the nation-state.