Agostinho M PINNOCK, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
This presentation aims to formulate a new geography of Blackness as it relates to place. A formulation that is articulated through the material landscape and exceeds modern-colonial epistemologies of time (and space). I seek to do so by extending Kamau Brathwaite’s (1996) notion of the nomo as linking the artistic imaginaries of enslaved African peoples and the largely erased Amerindian cultures of the Caribbean though various unvoiced, submarine geographies. Specifically, the presentation uses selected poems from Jamaican poet and author Kei Miller’s The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion and a cave in central Jamaica at Woodside, St. Mary parish to reflect on the implications of Amilcar Sanatan’s (2021) concept of a ‘Caribbean sense of place’. Miller’s pathway to Zion – is shown to be a kind of Edenic paradise in which Caribbean futurity is made possible while illustrating the radical possibilities of Black worlding practices through creative relationality. It is proposed that these inherently fractured and fracturing discourses of artmaking that emerge foster a new geography of Blackness that challenge colonial extraction and erasure inherent in the alterable technologies of ‘the silenced’.
Mots clés : submarine|fictionable geography|relationality|Blackness|Caribbean
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