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Rebellion/Invention/Groove
Abstract
This essay studies Sylvia Wynter’s “Black Metamorphosis” and draws attention to the ways plantocratic systems generated black creative activities that rebelled against the tenets of white supremacy and its attendant order of consciousness. Building on Wynter’s insights, the essay argues that plantation activities were rebellious and inventive spaces that enunciate “the revolutionary demand for happiness.” This demand for happiness draws attention to how musical beats and grooves are rebellious enthusiasms that recode ongoing plantation logics and, as well, open up a new order of consciousness.
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Metadata
- Authors
- McKittrick, K.
- Corresponding author
- McKittrick, Katherine
- Venue
- Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- 2016-03-01
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 79-91
- ISSN
- 0799-0537 (ISSN-L)
- 1534-6714
- OpenAlex
- W2277851302
- Cited by
- 133
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 169.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Afro-Latin American Studies
- Keywords
- Sylvia Wynter, plantation system, plantocracy, rebellion, white supremacy, grooves, Caribbean thought
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