![]() ![]() Instead of the time machines and time portals of her favorite American sci-fi authors, Indiana draws on Afro-Caribbean cosmology, particularly Olokun, the androgynous orisha of the timeless deep sea, to illuminate the Caribbean’s unstable, spiral spacetime-fruit of ongoing political instability and (un)natural disasters. But while Indiana draws on tropes common to “timey-wimey” sci fi, she reframes them through decidedly Caribbean concepts. Science fictional time travel is a way of working out puzzles of both time and narrative in a field of play. This essay situates Rita Indiana’s Tentacle (2018) in the context of time travel narratives from within and without the Caribbean, and amidst ongoing debates about responses to impending climate disaster. ![]() ![]() ‘Another Shape to Time’: Tentacle ’s Spiral Now. ![]()
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