Another Sun: Conversations with Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro - Softcover

Françoise Vergès; Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1068439521 ISBN 13: 9781068439520

Publisher: Divided Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

There is no country after the colony … We may leave the troubles of post-colonialism to empires, and the question of domination to those most suited to answer it, its historical perpetrators. They might begin by repatriating our statues, freeing our instruments, and renouncing stolen wealth to confront the wretchedness shaping their states and armies. Those of us who know ‘what the thunder does not say’ will search the stars to create ourselves again. Far from restitution, clairvoyance knows this motion and its vertigoes.

Waiting at Aimé Césaire International Airport, in the city of Lamentin, Martinique, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro browses the airport kiosk. Alongside books by Césaire, it offers titles by Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau. She picks up a copy of Nègre je suis, nègre je resterai, a conversation between Françoise Vergès and Césaire, and embarks. Another Sun revisits that conversation, this time addressing Vergès, resulting in an eclectic text shaped by ongoing struggles.

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About the Author

Françoise Vergès (Reunion Island) is a writer, decolonial antiracist feminist and curator. She is currently working on the fabrication of premature death, imperialism and anti-imperialism, the colonial roots of fascism, private property and racism. In parallel, she is working on a film on communist anticolonial struggles in Reunion Island and the Southwest Indian Ocean through her parents’ personal archives and her own. Her recent publications include Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism (2024), A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum (2024), A Decolonial Feminism (2021), The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (2020) and Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès, with Aimé Césaire (2020). She has written documentary films on Maryse Condé (2013) and Aimé Césaire (2011), and was a project advisor for documenta11 (2002) and the Triennale de Paris (2011). She is currently Senior Fellow Researcher at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Divided Publishing
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1068439521
• ISBN 13: 9781068439520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96