Nicole Simek is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA. She is co-editor of Francophone Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020), author of two books, including Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature and Theory in Public Life (2016), and translator of Maryse Condé's The Belle Créole (2020)

This is a refreshing and original reflection on racial theory and contemporary cultural production that speaks aptly to the tensions and anxieties of our times while demonstrating how literature and film can offer salutary alternatives to ongoing racial injustice.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Race and the Passion for the Real1. Genealogies That Matter2. Amnesiac Meditations, or Kinship in the Breach3. Future Ancestors4. Fugitive BelongingsConclusion: Alchemy's ReasonNotesWorks CitedIndex

Nicole Simek is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA. She is co-editor of Francophone Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020), author of two books, including Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature and Theory in Public Life (2016), and translator of Maryse Condé's The Belle Créole (2020)

This is a refreshing and original reflection on racial theory and contemporary cultural production that speaks aptly to the tensions and anxieties of our times while demonstrating how literature and film can offer salutary alternatives to ongoing racial injustice.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Race and the Passion for the Real1. Genealogies That Matter2. Amnesiac Meditations, or Kinship in the Breach3. Future Ancestors4. Fugitive BelongingsConclusion: Alchemy's ReasonNotesWorks CitedIndex

Nicole Simek is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA. She is co-editor of Francophone Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020), author of two books, including Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature and Theory in Public Life (2016), and translator of Maryse Condé's The Belle Créole (2020)

This is a refreshing and original reflection on racial theory and contemporary cultural production that speaks aptly to the tensions and anxieties of our times while demonstrating how literature and film can offer salutary alternatives to ongoing racial injustice.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Race and the Passion for the Real1. Genealogies That Matter2. Amnesiac Meditations, or Kinship in the Breach3. Future Ancestors4. Fugitive BelongingsConclusion: Alchemy's ReasonNotesWorks CitedIndex