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26 Law Text Culture 21 (2022)
Colonialist and Decolonial Metaphors

handle is hein.journals/lwtexcu26 and id is 24 raw text is: Colonialist and Decolonial Metaphors Lorenzo Veracini' 1 Introduction Tuck and Yang state that metaphor 'invades decolonization', they use a metaphor to lament metaphors (2012: 3). So does Kyle Powys Whyte (2018), who warns against 'reconciliation', which is also a metaphor. Tuck and Yang understand decolonisation spatially, an approach that should discourage metaphorical usages. A few decades earlier, in a widely cited article, Rayna Green could not have been more explicit in also rejecting metaphor on anticolonial grounds: 'metaphor signs the real Indian's death warrant' (1998: 37). While Green had used a powerful metaphor to refuse metaphors, Tapji Garba and Sara-Maria Sorentino in a recent intervention have argued that Tuck and Yang are being analogical, that they 'fold slavery into settler colonialism'. Garba and Sorentino refer approvingly to Frank B. Wilderson's denunciation of 'the ruse of analogy' (2020: 765-6). Indeed, Garba and Sorentino conclude that 'slavery is (nothing but) metaphor' (2020: 766, emphasis in original; on slavery and metaphor, see also Blackett, Duquesnoy 2021). This is because while Tuck and Yang can recover land from metaphor, the slave has no substantive object obfuscated by metaphorical constructions. Garba and Sorentino also do not believe in the 'labor theory of slavery'; they believe that the 'slave position' exceeds a demand for labor (2020: 772).They conclude that 'the excision of metaphor from settler colonialism is necessarily the excision of slavery' Law Text Culture Vol 26 2022 21

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