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Critiques of Humanism in the Works of Beryl Gilroy, Claudia Jones and Sylvia Wynter Caribbean Literary Interventions: Critiques of Humanism in the Works of Beryl Gilroy, Claudia Jones and Sylvia Wynter Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie des Fachbereiches 05 – Sprache, Literatur, Kultur der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen vorgelegt von Lea Hülsen aus 30163 Hannover 2020 Dekan: Prof. Dr. Thomas Möbius 1. Berichterstatter: Dr. habil. Michael Basseler 2. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Sabine Broeck Tag der Disputation: 02.07.2020 ii Acknowledgments I have to be completely honest. Writing a dissertation was not easy. Most of the time it was simply hard work. More than once I reached the limits of what I thought I could do or achieve. I had to realise that writing a dissertation not only means thinking about and developing an argument for years, but to acknowledge and accept the change it effects on a personal level. In the end I also learned that writing a dissertation was more than hard work — it was a process of getting closer to the person I would like to become. I want to thank Ansgar Nünning for founding the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) as well as the International PhD Programme (IPP). I was welcomed warmly in Gießen in October 2015 and deeply appreciate the institutional, academic, financial and moral support both programmes gave me. I also want to particularly thank the support system the GCSC offers for young mothers. Combining family life and pursuing a PhD is difficult and the GCSC made it easier if not even possible. I wholeheartedly thank my first supervisor Michael Basseler. His input and feedback pushed this dissertation into the right direction and was always poignant and constructive. I hugely appreciate the time and effort he put into this work. My next huge thanks has to go to my second supervisor Sabine Broeck. I want to thank her for directing me towards Beryl Gilroy, Claudia Jones and Sylvia Wynter and for believing in my project. Her positivity and helpful feedback kept me on track the whole time. As a mother of two I also want to thank my support system which is in fact my family. I want to thank my Mum for always being there, but particularly for the incredible support in the final couple of weeks. Since I can remember you have been there for me in every possible way and helped me especially through the hard times. A big thanks also goes to my Dad; you are the one person who has shown me that I can go all the way in search for my dreams without looking back. I also want to give heartfelt thanks to Kristina and Arend. I could not have finished this dissertation without your constant help and support. Then I want to thank my brothers Eric and Till. Your academic input and open ear at all times and your positive attitude and perspective on life kept me motivated. A special thank you goes to Aileen for listening to lengthy voice messages and putting in hours of texting and talking about by doubts and fears and for constantly telling me that I can do this. Thank you for always believing in me. Last, but definitely not least, I want to thank my best friend, my proof-reading genius, my husband and the love of my life. Eike, I cannot put my thankfulness for your immense support into words, but I will say this: Thank you for being there the whole time, during the ups and downs; thank you for telling me to take much needed breaks and most of all thank you for picking me up iii along the way again and again and again. This dissertation is as much mine as it is yours. I love you. iv To Frida and Marta v Caribbean Literary Interventions: Critiques of Humanism in the Works of Beryl Gilroy, Claudia Jones and Sylvia Wynter Table of Contents i. Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………..iii ii. Table of Contents………………………………………………………………………….….…vi 1. Introduction: Critiques of Humanism Within a Black Caribbean Discourse………………….…1 1.1. The Historical Development of Humanism……………………………………………..…..7 1.2. Framing the Argument: Working Definition of the Concepts Humanism, the Human and Man…………………………………………………………………………………………13 1.3. Revisiting Race, Class and Gender through Gilroy’s, Jones’ and Wynter’s Intersectional Approaches…………………………………………………………………………………17 1.4. The Structure of This Study……………………………………………………….……….21 2. Anglophone Caribbean Critiques of Humanism in the Non-Fictional Works of Beryl Gilroy, Claudia Jones and Sylvia Wynter ………………………………………………………………24 2.1. Sylvia Wynter’s Philosophical Approach to Humanism.………………….…….…………27 2.2. Claudia Jones’ Political and Intersectional Critique of Humanism…………………..……33 2.3. Beryl Gilroy’s Biographical Conflict With Humanism…….…….…………….….….……38 2.4. Intermediary Conclusion: Humanism Revisited and an Excursion into the Necessity of Reconceptualising Close Reading…………………………………………….……………44 3. The Impossibility of Being Black: Historic Trajectories of Racism and Systemic Violence as Forms of Dehumanisation…………………………….……………………..…………………50 3.1. The Plantation System and Beyond: Disruptions of Familial Bonds through Sexual and Racial Violence in Gilroy’s Inkle and Yarico, Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron and Jones’ “Lament for Emmet Till (1955)”……………………….………………………………..…54 3.2. Transnational Racism as Part of the Migration Experience in Jones’ “I Was Deported Because…” and “Autobiographical History” and in Gilroy’s Black Teacher and Boy Sandwich…………………………………………………………….………………….…..76 4. Writing History: Counter Narratives to Humanist Historic Accounts in Beryl Gilroy’s, Claudia Jones’ and Sylvia Wynter’s Works………………………………..…………………………….89 4.1. Non-Human Agents as Witnesses of Colonial History in Jones’ “Paean to the Atlantic”, Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron and Gilroy’s Boy Sandwich…..…………………….………92 vi 4.2. Rewriting History from the Perspective of Liminal Characters: Thomas Inkle in Gilroy’s Inkle and Yarico, Isaac Barton in Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron and Tyrone Grainger in Gilroy’s Boy Sandwich…………………………………………………………………….109 4.3. Resistance within Colonial History: Mutiny in Gilroy’s Inkle and Yarico, Marronage in Wynter’s Maskarade and Anti-Imperialist Activism in Jones’ “To Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1955)” and “For Consuela — Anti-Fascista (1955)”……………………………..………131 5. Rehumanising the Caribbean — From a Critique of Humanism to a New Concept of the Human.…………………………………………………..……….……………………………145 5.1. New Visions of the Human in Jones’ “Ship’s Log — December 19, 1955”, “Tonight I Tried to Imagine What Life Would be Like In the Future”, “Yenan: Cradle of the Revolution” and “For the Unity of Women in the Cause of Peace” (1951) and in Gilroy’s Leaves in the Wind and Black Teacher…………………………………………………………………………147 5.2. African Folklore as an Alternative World View to Humanism: The Concept Time in Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron and the Appearance of Spirits in Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron and Gilroy’s Inkle and Yarico…………………………………………….………161 5.3. Expressions of New Concepts of the Human: Rhythm, Dance and Masks in Wynter’s Maskarade and Gilroy’s Inkle and Yarico and Alternative Forms of Justice embodied by Miss Gatha in Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron and Maskarade………………………….…176 6. Conclusion: Transnational Black Female Perspectives on the Human………………..………187 7. Bibliography…………………………………………………………….………….…………195 7.1. Primary Sources……………………………………………………………..……………195 7.2. Secondary Sources…………………………………………………………….….………197 8. Deutsche Zusammenfassung……………………………………………………………..……207 9. Versicherung…………………………………………………………….…………….………215 vii 1. Introduction: Critiques of Humanism Within a Black Caribbean Discourse You may have heard a radio news report which aired briefly during the days after the jury’s acquittal of the policemen in the Rodney King beating case. The report stated that public officials of the judicial system of Los Angeles routinely used the acronym N.H.I. to refer to any case involving a breach of the rights of young black males who belong to the jobless category of the inner city ghettoes. N.H.I. means ‘no humans involved.’ (Wynter “Open Letter” 42) Over twenty years after Rodney King became a victim of police brutality, there have been numerous incidents in which black people have been exposed to systemic racial violence. Among others, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland and Philando Castile all died at the hands of police officers in the United States or within police custody (see Lockhart). After the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the following acquittal of his murderer George Zimmermann, the Black Lives Matter movement was started in order to publicly express the need to assert and propagate black humanness. On the homepage of the movement the founders write: “We affirm our humanity, our contributions to this society, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.” (Black Lives Matter) The acronym N.H.I. Sylvia Wynter exposes in her letter entitled “An Open Letter To My Colleagues”1 written in 1992, is evidence for the epistemic dehumanisation of black people and the structural racism embedded within the American legal system. The Black Lives Matter movement shows that — even over 20 years after Wynter’s letter — there is still the need to challenge the dehumanisation of black people. The movement in itself emphasises how the question of what it means to be human still demands to be answered. Not only are black people killed significantly more often, but the lack of legal consequences and the backlash against a movement such as Black Lives Matter, as in the reactions on Twitter through #BlueLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter, also shows that there still is a concept of the human that legitimises the dehumanisation of
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