{"title":"Siphon, or What Was the Plot? Revisiting Sylvia Wynter’s “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation”","authors":"Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard","doi":"10.1525/rep.2023.162.5.56","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This essay revisits Sylvia Wynter’s 1971 essay “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation” in relation to a quandary: the history of provision grounds not only as a resource but also as an initiation into property relations during and after West Indian slavery. In this light, the plot becomes a space of instruction in how to become a free subject through exchange. The essay draws out the plot’s histories of dispossession, enclosure, and dispute. Ultimately, it offers another term, siphon, as the condition of the overlapping conjunctures of West Indian emancipation and the postcolonial.","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"88","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Representations","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.162.5.56","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This essay revisits Sylvia Wynter’s 1971 essay “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation” in relation to a quandary: the history of provision grounds not only as a resource but also as an initiation into property relations during and after West Indian slavery. In this light, the plot becomes a space of instruction in how to become a free subject through exchange. The essay draws out the plot’s histories of dispossession, enclosure, and dispute. Ultimately, it offers another term, siphon, as the condition of the overlapping conjunctures of West Indian emancipation and the postcolonial.
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An interdisciplinary journal edited by renowned scholars, Representations publishes trend-setting articles and criticism in a wide variety of fields in the humanities. In addition to special topical issues, tributes, and forums, inside you’ll find insightful coverage of: •The Body, Gender, and Sexuality •Culture and Law •Empire, Imperialism, and The New World •History and Memory •Narrative and Poetics •National Identities •Politics and Aesthetics •Philosophy and Religion •Race and Ethnicity •Science Studies •Society, Class, and Power •Visual Culture
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