ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes Anthony Joseph’s imagination of nonlinear and processual origins for a Caribbean ancestral community in his 2008 novel The African Origins of UFOs. Drawing primarily on the work of Sylvia Wynter and Edouard Glissant, as well as on theories of embodied cognition in contemporary cognitive science, the chapter argues that Joseph depicts the emergence of a phenomenology of being for a transgenerational community through situated and embodied lived histories that occur across the novel’s three spatiotemporal locations: an imagined future on the distant planet of Kunu Supia; contemporary Trinidad; and a mythological past Їerè.
