Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination

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Armstrong Scarboro, Ann, 110, 122 Barbados, 109, 110, 117, 123, 124 Barrientos, Juan José, 142, 207n17 Beauvais, Louis-Jacques, 92, 104, 105 Bécel, Pascal, 118, 121 Benítez-Rojo, Antonio, 23, 31, 45, 93, 156, 157, 163, 184 Benjamin, Walter, 13, 37, 53, 126, 153, 176, 178 Bernabé, Jean, 126, 180 Beverly, John, 17 Birkenmaier, Anke, 33, 36 Black Spartacus, 16, 68, 69 Bolívar, Simón, 17, 26, 184, 197n55, 204n21 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 60, 64, 66, 67, 82, 94 Borges, Jorge Luis, 32, 146, 147, 167, 183 Borinsky, Alicia, 146, 207n17 Bosch, Hieronymus, 147, 148, 208n36 Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, 15, 105 Boukman, Dutty, 25, 32, 47, 49, 50 Buck-Morss, Susan, 8, 9, 69 Buitrago, Fanny, 184 Buñuel, Luis, 186 Camayd-Freixas, Eric, 156, 157, 163 Campeche, José, 158, 166 Camus, Albert, 140 Capécia, Mayotte, 121, 180 Carlos III, 14, 15, 17 Carlos IV, 15, 74, 142, 145, 181 Caribbean; civilization, 14, 52, 54, 113, 133; and the Enlightenment, 1, 2, 7, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 59, 77, 111, 122, 125, 127, 132, Abad y Lasierra, Fray Iñigo, 156, 157, 163 Alabi (founder of the Saramaka), 25 allegory, 91, 107, 109, 136–37, 139, 162–63, 189 affranchi class, 21, 90, 91, 92, 93–95, 97, 104, 105 African culture and ethnicity; and Alejo Carpentier, 36, 37, 39, 41, 42, 44, 52, 53, 94; and Marie Chauvet, 99, 101, 110; and Mayrse Condé, 122; and the Enlightenment, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 22; and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 192, 211n16; and C. L. R. James, 57, 59, 67, 75, 76, 94; and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, 161 Afro-Cuban; in Alejo Carpentier, 32–39, 41, 42, 48, 56, 176, 181, 189 Alvarez, Julia, 184 anachronisms, 106, 115, 119, 120, 155, 156, 183 Aponte, José Antonio, 16 Arciniegas, Germán, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 26 Ardouian, Beabrun, 79 Arenas, Reinaldo; “Adios a Mamá,” 136; and Alejo Carpentier, 23, 55, 133, 143, 144, 148, 149, 154, 161, 169, 177, 182, 188; Antes que anochezca, 134, 140, 208n27; and Caribbean postmodernity, 4, 20, 22, 24, 126, 133, 135, 137, 142, 174, 179, 182, 186, 203n42; and Cartesian rationality, 138–41, 143, 149, 161, 181; and the Cuban Revolution, 140; El mundo alucinante 111, 132–50, 181 Ariel/Caliban dialectic, 78–80, 168, 169, 171, 173, 190, 202n32 Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 76, 96, 205n30 Aristotle, 40, 60 Index 226 Index 161; Amour, colère et folie, 87, 88, 106, 108–109, 112, 107, 111, 121, 178, 180, 191, 180, 204n14; and Caribbean modernity , 20, 21, 88, 94, 110, 111, 113, 116, 133, 174, 178, 179, 205n7; Dance on the Volcano, 15, 22, 26, 63, 87, 88, 89, 87–107, 109, 119, 126–27, 180, 181; and the Enlightenment, 4, 23, 178; the Haitian Revolution and, 20, 22, 99; Fond des nègres, 88; and Jean Fouchard, 89, 90, 105, 118, 205n29; and C. L. R. James, 92, 94, 97, 98, 107, 110 Chukwudi Eze, Emmanuel, 9, 10, 11, 68 cinquillo (rhythmic figure), 35, 36 Code Noir, 18, 43, 197n59 cogito, 4, 23, 133, 135, 139, 140, 141, 143, 146, 147, 149, 161, 174 Colás, Santiago, 202n33 colonialism, 6, 13, 22, 31, 89, 91, 123, 153, 155, 162, 174, 190 Condé, Maryse: and Alejo Carpentier, 110, 112, 125, 180; and Caribbean postmodernity, 4, 20–23, 88, 110–13, 123, 126, 156, 161, 163, 174, 179–82; Crossing the Mangrove, 22 110, 125, 180; and the Enlightenment, 89, 99, 107, 112–15, 125, 132, 133; and Frantz Fanon, 120–21, 122, 126; and history, 116–19, 122, 133, 137, 138, 154–56, 183; In the Time of the Revolution, 22, 111, 112–16, 118, 126; I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, 22, 108, 11, 116–127; and Marie Chauvet, 108–109, 110, 121, 126 , 179, 191; “Order, Disorder, Freedom and the West Indian Writer,” 126; La parole des femmes, 108; Segu, 22 Condorcet, Nicolas de, 5, 8, 65, 96, 178, 191 Confiant, Raphäel, 126, 180 Constitution of Saint Domingue 1801, 72, 73, 80, 81 Coronil, Fernando, 30, 31, 33 Cousin d’Avallon, Charles-Yves, 69, 99 Creole (language), 98, 101, 102, 111 créolité, 30, 52 Cuba, 16, 20, 24, 32, 37, 38, 42, 134, 136, 137, 140, 177, 182, 185, 186, 190, 192, 193, 198n62, 199n8, 202n33, 210n37, 210n14, 210n16, 211n17 Cuban Revolution, 23, 24, 134, 184, 185, 191, 192, 202n33, 206n19, 207n7 175; and Europe, 30, 34, 39, 57, 82, 83...