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“... In​ A Map to the Door of No Return (2001), Dionne Brand makes the argument that ‘in the diaspora, as in bad dreams, you are constantly overwhelmed by the persistence of the spectre of captivity.’ For Afrodiasporic people, captivity isn’t a condition, or a place, she argues, but an embodied memory, a haunting of bodies ‘curdling under the singing of whips, those bodies cursed, those bodies valued … they leap onto the backs of the contemporary ...”