Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context PDF
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Coloniality of Diasporas NEWCARIBBEANSTUDIES EditedbyKofiCampbellandShaliniPuri NewCaribbeanStudiesisauniqueseriesofmonographsandessaycollectionsfocused on the still burgeoning field of Caribbean Studies, a field that is contributing to Caribbeanself-understanding,globalunderstandingoftheregion,andthereinven- tionofvariousdisciplinesandtheirmethodologieswellbeyondtheCaribbean.The series especially solicits humanities-informed and interdisciplinary scholarship that addressesanyoftheregion’slanguagetraditions. KofiCampbellisanassociateprofessorofEnglishatWilfridLaurierUniversityand coordinatoroftheEnglishprogramatitsBrantfordCampus.HeistheauthorofLit- eratureandCultureintheBlackAtlantic:FromPre-toPostcolonial. Shalini Puri is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. HerbookTheCaribbeanPostcolonial:SocialEquality,Post-Nationalism,andCultural Hybriditywasthewinnerofthe2005GordonandSybilLewisawardforthebestbook ontheCaribbean. PublishedbyPalgraveMacmillan: HumorintheCaribbeanLiteraryCanon BySamVásquez RhysMatters:NewCriticalPerspectives EditedbyMaryWilsonandKerryL.Johnson BetweenEmpires ByKoichiHagimoto DesirebetweenWomeninCaribbeanLiterature ByKejaL.Valens TheQueerCaribbeanSpeaks:InterviewswithWriters,Artists,andActivists ByKofiOmoniyiSylvanusCampbell TellingWestIndianLives:LifeNarrativeandtheReformofPlantationSlaveryCultures 1804–1834 BySueThomas TheGrenadaRevolutionintheCaribbeanPresent:OperationUrgentMemory ByShaliniPuri ColonialityofDiasporas:RethinkingIntra-ColonialMigrationsinaPan-Caribbean Context ByYolandaMartínez-SanMiguel Coloniality of Diasporas Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context YolandaMartínez-SanMiguel ISBN 978-1-349-48979-4 ISBN 978-1-137-41307-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137413079 coloniality of diasporas Copyright © Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel, 2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-41306-2 All rights reserved. Firstpublishedin2014by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,EuropeandtherestoftheWorld, thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Martínez-SanMiguel,Yolanda. Colonialityofdiasporas:rethinkingintra-colonialmigrationsina Pan-Caribbeancontext/byYolandaMartínez-SanMiguel. pages(cid:1)cm.(cid:1)—(cid:1)(New(cid:1)Caribbean(cid:1)studies)(cid:1) Includes(cid:1)bibliographical(cid:1)references. 1. Caribbeanliterature—Historyandcriticism. 2. Coloniesinliterature. 3. Piratesinliterature. 4. Emigrationandimmigrationinliterature. 5. Raceinliterature. I. Title. PN849.C3M3472014 809(cid:2).89729—dc23 2014003486 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:July2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Tothefierceandstrongwomeninmyfamily. Tomymother,CarmenYolandaSanMiguelLorenzana,withwhomIhavehad internationaldictionarywars,fromCubatotheendoftheworld To my sister, María (Mereche) Martínez San Miguel, the best friend and researchassistant To Alexandra María (Leisa) Rodríguez Martínez, who is always texting, facebooking,oraskinggoodquestionsthatkeepmegoing Thankyouforbeingfunintellectualinterlocutors,friends,andcompanions. This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction:ColonialityofDiasporasintheCaribbean 1 Part I ColonialArchipelagicDislocations 1 Lagrancolonia:PiracyandColonialityofDiasporasinthe SpanishandFrenchCaribbeanintheSeventeenthCentury 19 2 Archipiélagosdeultramar:FilibusterismoandExtended ColonialismintheCaribbeanandthePhilippines 39 Part II CaribbeanColonialities 3 ImpossibleHomecomings:AiméCésaireandLuisMuñoz Marín 75 4 NégropolitainsandNuyorícans:MetropolitanRacializationin FrantzFanonandPiriThomas 99 Part III ExtendedPostcolonialities 5 OtherConfederations:CreolizationandBeyond 127 6 Sexiles:(Post)ColonialismandtheMachineofDesire 163 Notes 197 Bibliography 233 Index 267 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Once more, I reach the concluding stages of a book project with the real- izationthatthishasbeenanintellectualjourneythathasbeennourishedby manycollaborationsandfriendships.ColonialityofDiasporasisundoubtedlya groupeffort.Eachchapterhasbeendevelopedinclosedialoguewithmycol- leagues,friends,familymembers,andstudents.Thisentireprojectbeganasa casualconversationwithJorgeDuanythatsoonafterincludedJustinDaniel, on the parallelisms between Martinique and Puerto Rico. Marcial Godoy Anativiawasthefirstonetofundaveryearlyiterationofthisprojectthrough a SSRC-Rockefeller Foundation proposal entitled Collaborative Writing on TranslocalFlowsintheAmericasthatallowedmetospendawonderfulweekin BellaggioinOctober2004.Thisprojectwaslaternourishedbytheimportant work done by Aníbal Quijano with the notion of coloniality of power, and bycrucialdiscussionsaboutthecontributionsandlimitsofpostcolonialthe- oryheldbySilvioTorres-Saillant,AniaLoomba,VicenteRafael,andSonali Pererainaconferenceentitled“Postcolonialities”andheldatRutgersinthe Spring of 2009. Carlos Alonso, Jorge Salessi, Ignacio Javier López, Michael Solomon, Barbara Fuchs, and Reinaldo Ladagga welcomed me to the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania when I was still trying to find an alternative to the postcolonialdebatetothinkaboutthepoliticalandhistoricalcontextinthe contemporaryCaribbean.RomándelaCampalaterjoinedmeatPenn,and hewasandcontinuestobeakeyinterlocutorofmyworkasaCaribbeanist andLatinAmericanist. Eachchapterhasbeentheresultofgroupwork.Eachofthesecolleagues spent months working with me to complete the research for each section of the book, so they deserve special mention. Chapter 1 benefited from the input of Jorge Duany, Jorge Giovanetti, Yomaira Figueroa, Judith Sierra- Rivera, Solangel Troncoso and David Kazanjian on the complex networks ofpiracy.JessicaUrieandAmarilisRodriguezlocatedcrucialsixteenth-and seventeenth-centurydictionaryentriesandsources,andhelpedmewiththeir insights. Zachary Arbeitel, Jessica Urie, and Melisa Gabilanes did research
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