Abortion and La Blès Fabienne Kanor's La Poétique de la cale, Évelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme, and Kettly Mars's Fado

This article suggests that abortion in a certain genealogy of Caribbean thought in French takes place with an overlapping consciousness of both the womb and the hold – as images and as historical, embodied, and psychic realities, in slavery and “post-slavery” Africana feminist thought; abortion depends upon what Myriam Chancy refers to as “inter-subjective transmission” of what Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson name as “Phenomenology of Black Spirit.” The article’s analysis focuses on Fabienne Kanor’s La poétique de la cale: Variations sur le bateau négrier (2022), Évelyne Trouillot’s Rosalie l’infâme (2003), and Kettly Mars’s Fado (2008).