ABSTRACT

Marked by economic and political exile, this quintessential Caribbean quality demands to be analyzed in the context of two brutal dictatorships and their immediate successors. This particular demetaphorization of the colonial and imperial wounds is intend to highlight with the use of 'Dual Wounds'. Hair as a signifier of racialization and particularly in relation to Blackness is a recurrent theme in iconic works by artists such as Ellen Gallagher and Ingrid Mwangi Robert Hutter. The level of involvement of Black women with their hair is epic and its implications could be considered encyclopedic. The metaphor of inseparability of the Duality, of the twin principle of the Marassa, the loa that symbolizes the status of Saint Domingue as the only Caribbean space with two island-nations sharing the same territory, is dealt with in 'All Tied Up/Atados'. The chapter argues that the association of entanglements and inescapable realities typifies the particular diasporic stamina of the Saint Domingue condition.