We Are Castaways: Archipelagic Imagination in Our Trembling Échos-monde
Abstract This article, here translated from the author's original lecture in Portuguese, distills his experiences of fieldwork in Latin America and reading of Caribbean authors who took his “imagination to the creole seas,” from which emerged eventually a “vision of archipelago” as a space-time...
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crdukeunivpr:10.1215/2834698x-11128281 2024-06-23T07:52:21+00:00 We Are Castaways: Archipelagic Imagination in Our Trembling Échos-monde Imafuku, Ryuta Kabir, Ananya Jahanara Raimondi, Luca 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/2834698x-11128281 https://read.dukeupress.edu/monsoon/article-pdf/2/1/85/2099749/85imafuku.pdf en eng Duke University Press Monsoon volume 2, issue 1, page 85-99 ISSN 2834-698X 2834-6998 journal-article 2024 crdukeunivpr https://doi.org/10.1215/2834698x-11128281 2024-06-04T05:50:26Z Abstract This article, here translated from the author's original lecture in Portuguese, distills his experiences of fieldwork in Latin America and reading of Caribbean authors who took his “imagination to the creole seas,” from which emerged eventually a “vision of archipelago” as a space-time splintering conducted from underwater, anti-continental perspectives. Bringing the challenge of archipelagicity to the reconfiguring of time as well as space, the lecture traces his journey from creole toward archipelago. Traversing the Mississippi delta, island clusters, and coral atolls in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds, gathering up the poetics of dialects, pidgins, creoles, and other errant tongues, it is an “unpacific” voyage that dredges up the author's East Asian, Pacific Rim identity as a divining rod for sensing archipelagic connections between differently creolized subjectivities. This meaningful web, generated through a shared awareness of not history but its lack, constitutes a new home: “a dwelling called archipelago.” Article in Journal/Newspaper Delta Island Duke University Press Indian Pacific Monsoon 2 1 85 99 |
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Abstract This article, here translated from the author's original lecture in Portuguese, distills his experiences of fieldwork in Latin America and reading of Caribbean authors who took his “imagination to the creole seas,” from which emerged eventually a “vision of archipelago” as a space-time splintering conducted from underwater, anti-continental perspectives. Bringing the challenge of archipelagicity to the reconfiguring of time as well as space, the lecture traces his journey from creole toward archipelago. Traversing the Mississippi delta, island clusters, and coral atolls in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds, gathering up the poetics of dialects, pidgins, creoles, and other errant tongues, it is an “unpacific” voyage that dredges up the author's East Asian, Pacific Rim identity as a divining rod for sensing archipelagic connections between differently creolized subjectivities. This meaningful web, generated through a shared awareness of not history but its lack, constitutes a new home: “a dwelling called archipelago.” |
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