Table of Contents

1. Preface: Sylvia Wynter’s Agonistic Intimations (David Scott)

2. T’rough Accident: Utterance and Evolution in Songs of Jamaica (Alex Benson)

3. Pays-là chaviré: Revolutionary Politics in Nineteenth‑Century Haitian Creole Popular Music (Kate Hodgson)

§1 Sylvia Wynter’s “Black Metamorphosis”: A Discussion
Guest Editor, Aaron Kamugisha

1. “That Area of Experience That We Term the New World”: Introducing Sylvia Wynter’s “Black Metamorphosis” (Aaron Kamugisha)

2. From Mode of Production to Mode of Auto‑Institution: Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis of the Labor Question (Demetrius L. Eudell)

3. Marronnons / Let’s Maroon: Sylvia Wynter’s “Black Metamorphosis” as a Species of Maroonage (Greg Thomas)

4. Rebellion/Invention/Groove (Katherine McKittrick)

5. Sylvia Wynter’s Theory of the Human and the Crisis School of Caribbean Heteromasculinity Studies (Tonya Haynes)

6. The Resistance of the Lost Body (Nijah Cunningham)

7. The Black Experience of New World Coloniality (Aaron Kamugisha)

§2 Visualities

1. Eyedealism (Matthew McCarthy)

§3 Book Discussion: Alexandra T. Vazquez, Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music

1. Fugitive Sounds (Alejandra Bronfman)

2. Broken Melodies and Deep Grooves: Listening at the Limits of Cuban Music in Miami (Celeste Fraser Delgado)

3. Una escuela rara: Feminist Methodologies, Innovation, and the Sound of What Is to Come in Diaspora Studies (Samantha Pinto)

4. You Can Bring All Your Friends (Alexandra T. Vazquez)

5. Contributors