Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Caribbean Spaces: Reflective Essays/Creative-Theoretical Circulations 1 1. Between the Twilight Zone and the Underground Railroad: “Owagea” 19 2. Reimagining the Caribbean: Seeing, Reading, Thinking 33 3. Caribbean/American: The Portable Black Self in Community 46 4. Spirit Scapes: From Brazil to the Caribbean 64 5. Middle Passages: Movable Borders and Ocean-Air Space Mobility 85 6. Women, Labor, and the Transnational: From Work to Work 107 7. Connecting Stories: My Grandmother’s Violin 129 8. “Changing Locations”: Literary Pathways of Caribbean Migration 147 9. “Haiti, I Can See Your Halo!”: Living on Fault Lines 158 10. Caribbean GPS: Compasses of Racialization 173 11. Circulations: Caribbean Political Activism 202 12. My Father Died a Second Time 216 13. Postscript: Escape Routes 220 Bibliography 227 Index 241 ...