NOTES

1.    Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (London: Penguin Books, 2006), 1. First published 1956.

2.    C.L.R. James, Beyond a Boundary (New York: Pantheon, 1963), 47.

3.    James, Beyond a Boundary, 47.

4.    James, Beyond a Boundary, 48.

5.    James, Beyond a Boundary, 48.

6.    James, Beyond a Boundary, 40–41.

7.    James, Beyond a Boundary, 41–42.

8.    Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015), 81.

9.    William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair (Mineola, NY: Dover Thrift Editions, 2016), 14. First published 1848.

10.  Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 7.

11.  Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 3.

12.  Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage, 1994), 62.

13.  William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970), 37. First published 1852.

14.  Simon Gikandi, “Aesthetic Reflection and the Colonial Event: The Work of Art in the Age of Slavery,” Journal of the International Institute 4, no. 3 (Spring/Summer 1997): 12.

15.  Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., 38.

16.  Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., 40.

17.  Sylvia Wynter, “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation,” Savacou 5 (1971): 95.

18.  Dionne Brand, “At the Lisbon Plate,” in Sans Souci, and Other Stories (Toronto: Williams-Wallace, 1988), 113.

19.  Christina Sharpe, personal communication, October 2018.

20.  Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (London: Service and Patton, 1897), 181. First published 1847.

21.  Brontë, Jane Eyre, 191.

22.  Brontë, Jane Eyre, 210.

23.  Brontë, Jane Eyre, 215.

24.  Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016), 161. First published in 1966.

25.  John Keene, “Rivers,” in Counternarratives (New York: Directions, 2015), 219.

26.  Keene, “Rivers,” 219.

27.  Keene, “Rivers,” 222–25.

28.  Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha (Chicago: Third World Press, 1991), 146.

29.  Brooks, Maud Martha, 242–43.

30.  Wilson Harris, Palace of the Peacock (London: Faber and Faber, 2013), loc 526–31, Kindle. First published 1966.

31.  Kenneth Ramchand, Afterword to Palace of the Peacock, loc 1451, Kindle.

32.  Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996), 145.

33.  Brontë, Jane Eyre, 63.