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¹Audre Lorde, ‘Poetry Is Not a Luxury’, in [Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde, Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press, 1984, pp. 36–9] (p.)

²Thomas Pringle (ed.), The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave. Related By Herself. With a Supplement by the editor, to which is appended the Narrative of Asa-Asa, A Captured African, London: F. Westley & A. H. Davis, Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes, 1831, p. 6.

³See, for example, my Longest Journey: A History of Black Lewisham, London: Deptford Forum, 1995.

⁴David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, p. 43.

⁵Mina Karavanta, ‘Interculturality, Creolization and Joan Anim-Addo's Imoinda as a “Signifying Minority” Narrative in-between Cultures’, in Nicholas Faraclas et al. (eds), Transcultural Roots Uprising: The Rhizomatic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Caribbean, Proceedings of the ECICC-Conference, St Thomas, 2012, vol. 2, Curaçao: Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma, 2013, pp. 45–58 (p. 55).

⁶Toni Morrison, ‘The Site of Memory’, in W. Zinsser and R. Baker (eds), Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998, pp. 183–200.

⁷Ashraf Rushdy writes of the neo-slave narrative as fiction that displays ‘a bi-temporal perspective that shows the continuity and discontinuities from the period of slavery’ (Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 5). Both practice and interest in the neo-slave narrative have steadily increased. See the forthcoming special issue of Callaloo, co-edited with Maria Helena Lima.

⁸Giovanna Covi, ‘Oroonoko's Genderization and Creolization: Joan Anim-Addo's Imoinda’, in Margarete Rubik et al. (eds), Revisiting and Reinterpreting Aphra Behn: Proceedings of the Aphra Behn Europe Seminar ESSE Conference, Strasbourg 2002, Entrevaux: Bilingua GA Editions, 2003, pp. 83–92 (p. ).

⁹Karavanta, ‘Interculturality’, p. 57.

¹⁰Robert Wedderburn, The Horrors of Slavery: Exemplified in the Life and History of the Rev. Robert Wedderburn . . ., London: William Dugdale, 1824.

¹¹Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory, New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, p. 180.

¹²Denise Riley, The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000, p. 111.

¹³Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness, Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2007, p. 20.

¹⁴Anne Carson, ‘Dirt and Desire: Essay on the Phenomenology of Female Pollution in Antiquity’, in Men in the Off Hours, New York: Vintage, 2001, (p. 130).

¹⁵Anne Carson, ‘The Gender of Sound’, in Glass, Irony, and God, New York: New Directions, 1996, (p. 130).

¹⁶Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler (eds), Revolution: A Reader, Paris: Paraguay Press, 2012, p. 867.

¹⁷Caroline Bergvall, Fig: Goan Atom 2, Cambridge: Salt, 2005, p. 33.

¹⁸Catherine Wagner, Nervous Device, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2012.

¹⁹Hannah Weiner, Clairvoyant Journal 1974: March–June Retreat, New York: Angel Hair Books, 1978.

²⁰Harryette Mullen, Muse & Drudge, Philadelphia: Singing Horse, 1995.

²¹Christopher Bollas, The Freudian Moment, p. 44.