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Acknowledgments 6 Contents 7 Notes on Contributors 10 Chapter 1: Poetics and Politics of the Chronotropics: Introduction 14 Charting the Chronotropics 16 Inhabiting the Chronotropics of Ancestral Knowledge 20 (Im)Possible Subjects of the Chronotropics 28 Re-engineering Community 31 Notes 32 References 33 Part I: Archival Disruption 38 Chapter 2: Chronotopal Slave Ships, Corporeal Archives: Devoir de mémoire in Fabienne Kanor’s Humus and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro’s las Negras 39 “The First Memory Could Be the Ship”: Chronotopes and Ship Sisters 40 Corporeal Archives and Devoir de Mémoire 44 Notes 51 References 55 Chapter 3: Wreckognition: Archival Ruins in Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk 58 References 73 Chapter 4: Past Histories and Present Realities: The Paradox of Time and the Ritual of Performance in Mayra Santos Febres’ Fe en disfraz 76 References 92 Chapter 5: A Site of Memory: Revisiting (in) Gisèle Pineau’s Mes quatre femmes 93 The Memory Jail 94 Family Archive: A Rhizomatic Genealogy 96 “There, Time Is Abolished”: Official and Unofficial Histories 98 Parole de nuit or parole de la mémoire 104 Notes 106 References 107 Part II: Radical Remapping 111 Chapter 6: Connecting Diasporas

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