Diffractions in Une Tempête

in postcolonial and feminist contexts

Abstract

As in a game of strings, the capsules that we ripen here disperse. Each one transcribes extracts from the Aimé Césaire´s play Une Tempête. The optical metaphor that refers to Haraway (2016) tentacular thinking, provokes us to detach ourselves from the same thing, to distance ourselves from the reflection, not to expose conclusions in order to insist on processes and relationships that become consistent meanings. This text then unfolds, like a game of strings in hand, interferences, interruptions, diffractions that make what we did not see visible, that makes what we did not hear audible, but above all, it places us in another place to see and listen what Césaire wrote otherwise, joining views what have been left out of the colonial episteme. In conversation with each other and with others, we put epistemological complexity into practice to establish political, erotic, poietic, postcolonial, and feminist connections.