Possessed by a slave, not slavery

The present paper is divided into three large steps around the themes of spirit possession and historical imagination slavery in Cuba. These reflect both ethnographic dimensions these broader theoretical approaches towards them. last step, ‘apomimesis’, one proposed by author, not way replacement but displace­ment. first ‘formulaic’ imagination, covers ground a direct expression as trauma through possession. second ‘mimesis’, displaces adding it possibility reversal, empowerment, slave becoming an anti-slave. third creates another simultaneous condition. Through negative dialectics apomimesis non-slave emerges.