Shared suffering in the slave-ship belly generated collective unanimity

Evidence

What is terrifying partakes of the abyss, three times linked ta the unknown. First, the time you fell into the belly of the boat. For, in your poe tic vision, a boat has no be11y; a boat does not swallow up, does not devour; a boat is steered by open skies. Yet, the belly of this boat dissolves you, precipitates you into a nonworld from which you cry out. This boat is a womb, a womb abyss. It generates the clamor of your protests; it also produces aIl the coming unanirnity. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 90

Categorization

• BMF: The slave-ship as anonymous shared womb generating a collectivity of strangers recalls Parable of the Sower’s Earthseed — a collectivity born not of shared provenance but of shared passage through catastrophe, forming ‘the coming unanimity’ from those thrown together.
• XREF: connects to: Shared abyss experience converts exception into ordinary peoplehood — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 107; Collective mistreatment among prisoners generates mutual kindness as a survival strategy; Collective identity and shared grievances reinforce each other bidirectionally — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4428 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror #exemplifies (0.85) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 183
• Collective mistreatment among prisoners generates mutual kindness as a survival strategy #corroborates (0.78)
• Collective identity and shared grievances reinforce each other bidirectionally #expands (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4428