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Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton (review)

152 In Prophetic Visions of the Past, the reader will not find much detail about the different publics and institutional spaces from where these intellectuals produced their ideas, nor about how their works circulated and were received in the region. Also, historically-minded scholars might find issues with Figueroa’s focus on “ontocolonialism” (6), which speaks to a transhistorical Caribbean essence that unites all the writers studied in the book, beyond their particular differences. The question of genre is for the most part left aside, particularly in the case of theatre: the plays of Césaire, Glissant, and Walcott are treated solely as literary texts, without any consideration of key dramatic aspects such as staging, performance, and spectatorship. Another matter of concern is the book’s lack of engagement with female or queer perspectives. Since the writers analyzed throughout constitute a male-dominated canon, the discussion of at least one non-male or anti-heteronormative voice would have offered significant insights on the role of gender and sexuality in visions of decolonization in the Caribbean. Notwithstanding these limitations, Prophetic Visions of the Past represents a valuable contribution to Caribbean literary criticism, the region’s intellectual history, and studies of the global south. In reflecting on the literary afterlives of the Haitian Revolution, Figueroa points to different paths for imagining not only the racialized history of Caribbean coloniality, but also the possibility of a decolonized future for all.