This research questions the intersections of race and ecological histories, in Caribbean landscapes within literature and site-specific movement practice. From this historical departure, the metaphor of the mangrove, as the methodological analytic structure of this thesis, reveals the ecosystem's historical disjuncture between its ecological properties of resilience and its constitutive colonial and imperial encounter through the commodification and destruction of its wood. Through close reading Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove and Reinaldo Arenas'Celestino antes del alba, this thesis argues that the narrative devices of the post-emancipation Caribbean propagate discourses of antiblackness that need to be deconstructed with and through ecological formations and histories.
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