“Who worked this evil, brought distance between us?”: The Politics of Sexual Interaction in Sylvia Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron

This essay argues that the depiction of sexual relationships across racial and heteronormative lines in Sylvia Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron challenges the raced and gendered priorities of existing postcolonial critical discourse and presents a more useful way of exploring the problems of sovereignty and the processes of creating sovereign selves and communities in postemancipation contexts.