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Preparing in Dispossession

Praise for the Recreation of All

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2025

Ronald Rose-Antoinette
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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.

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TDR , Volume 69 , Issue 3: Performance, Possession, and Automation Brown University TDR Consortium Issue , September 2025 , pp. 53 - 66
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of New York University Tisch School of the Arts

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