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[S] ince speech was forbidden, slaves camouflaged the word under the provocative intensity of the scream. No one could translate the meaning of what seemed to be nothing but a shout. It was taken to be nothing but the call of a wild animal. This is how dispossessed man organized his speech by weaving it into the apparently meaningless texture of extreme noise.— Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays In Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno — a fictionalized retelling of events that ... |