註釋 Exorcising Caribbean Ghosts: the Family, the Hero, and the Plantation searches for common hierarchical, racial, sexual, familial, and political echoes that the plantation system left in Caribbean texts. It argues that in spite of linguistic, religious, and political differences throughout the archipelago, the Caribbean self continues to act in reaction to the initial trauma of the plantation. The plantation placed Europeans above Africans, creating racism leading to an unequal distribution of social standing. It gave white men sexual control of his wife and slaves, thus, curtailing sexual agency and women's rights. A vague notion of paternity erupted from its sexual economy. Power surrounded mostly one man, the master, leaving the alternative discourses of black women and men, white women, and mixed creoles, outside of its realm. By signaling the continuous use of the plantation as a reference point for the distribution of sexual agency, social status, and political power in Caribbean texts, the thesis undermines the plantation's blinding glare. 