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“What’s in this plot?” Cultivating and Eating Otherwise with Jamaica Kincaid

Jamie Herd (UMR LEGS et Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin)

Monday 27 November, 5-7 pm, D101 Room (Signal Tower, Citadel)

Zoom link: https://u-picardie-fr.zoom.us/j/98004145815

In her 1971 article “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation,” Sylvia Wynter
examined the historical ties between colonialism, plantation agriculture
and contemporary literary forms, writing, “The novel form and our societies are the twin children of the same parents.” Following her cue, this
presentation will explore some of the connections between literature and
agriculture. Both these forms of culture feed humans and are vital to human
survival. Yet they do not necessarily create conditions in which humans,
earth systems and fellow earth creatures can thrive and are often forms of
destructive monoculture (the production of limited bodily, spiritual, and
intellectual products). As a legacy of colonial plantation systems, the
emergence of monocultures was tied to invention of race and advent of
racial terror as well as the rise of patriarchy and feminicides that forged
early modern Europe. These human injustices were and remain bound up with forms of earth domination and ecological destruction that still prevail. If, according to the adage, we are what we eat, we are also incarnations of
these intersecting and intersectional forms of violence.

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