Siphon, or What Was the Plot? Revisiting Sylvia Wynter’s “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation”

KANEESHA CHERELLE PARSARD is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She writes about the legacies of slavery and emancipation in the Caribbean and in the broader Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, with an interest in how gender and sexuality structure race, labor, and capital. She is working on her first book project, titled An Illicit Wage. Her scholarship has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies and can be found in the journals American Quarterly, Small Axe, and the South Atlantic Quarterly.