Black bodies and the market system
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This dissertation posits that regardless of the current market system's nature and structure, the black body has an already defined and fixed colonial ontological function: a subsidizing entity. In the postcolonial era, three processes are put into place to perpetuate this order: The first is the control of a preferential political black elite. The second is the entertainment of anomy generated by the inability of the market system and preferred subservient elites to create economic development for their ontologized people. The third is the perpetuation of extraction, the goal of prominent market players that derives from the two previous conditions. My study analyses three twentieth-century Afro-Caribbean books. As this work shows, these books represent colonialism and slavery and their socio-economic structures and epistemologies not as history and not even as ghosts that haunt the present but as persistent and continuing in contemporary neoliberal market capitalism structures. The books are Haitian writer Jacques Stephen Alexis's Les Arbres musiciens (1957) [The Musician Trees], two Congolese novels, La Vie et demie (1979) [Life and a Half] by Sony Labou Tansy; Johnny chien Mechant (2002) [Johnny Mad Dog] by Emmanuel Dongala. Despite the religiosity of neoliberal ideologies and market principles, African and Caribbean narratives often reject the dogma of western imposed extractive market principles. Thus, the nonwestern big market players with significant economic and military influence are beginning to demand and invent a revamped global system.
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Ph. D.