Preparing in Dispossession
Ronald Rose-Antoinette
TDR: The Drama Review September 1, 2025 DOI: 10.1017/s1054204325100816 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that the anarchic embrace of difference in encounters between Western and non-Western spiritual practices in Martinique disrupts the univocal, linear, and centralizing violence of plantation society. Contends that techniques of collective ecstasy through song, dance, and sacramental signs of spirit possession reveal anticolonial models of social organization and presencing. |
Abstract
The anarchic embrace of difference in the encounters of and variations on Western and non-Western spiritual practices in Martinique reveals ways of disrupting the univocal, linear, and centralizing violence of plantation society. Examining the various techniques of collective ecstasy through song, dance, and other sacramental signs of spirit possession calls attention to anticolonial models of social organization, and presencing.