216 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STUDIES Or will it be a synthesis of these two visions, providing another space of negotiation to keep open the "Creole line of escape" (p.219)? Future research along these lines may explain how this vision of creolization may subvert Manichean traditional under- standings of Caribbean regional identity options in this globali- zation era. Rethinking the Mangrove of Caribbean Space and Time: Reply to Critics of Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Pleeing the Plantation^ Michaeline A. Crichlow Professor in African and African American Studies and Sociology, Duke University Patricia Northover Senior Pellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), Mona We wish to warmly thank the reviewers, Aaron Kamugisha, Faith Smith and Angel L. Viera-Tirado for a gracious yet still provocative and critical reading of our text. We are also happy that they have welcomed this work as a major contribution to Caribbean and Globalization studies in their task of expounding the central ideas and arguments sustained in our critical intervention addressing the production of Caribbean space and time. We have certainly benefitted greatly from their thoughtful engagement with pivotal thrusts of the analysis offered. They all have sought to engage the book differently raising issues that we need to underscore, and while we agree with many of the comments made we wish to offer a few clarifying remarks in response. A central problematic that we have sought to critically probe with our text concerns the mode of Caribbean historicity forged and lived in particular and violently disjunctive time-spaces saturated 1 In Memoriam, RIP: Rex Nettleford, Edouard Glissant and Michel-Rolph Trouillot, exemplary scholars. We will forever cherish your lives, legacies and insightful scholarship.