Publisher's Synopsis
"Anchored by interoception as a theoretical mode of inquiry, this monograph makes visible and reconceptualizes how the Caribbean has served as a laboratory for scientific, political, social, and economic testing. Interocepción insular argues that the Spanish-speaking Caribbean's so-called "insular condition" has been historically pathologized as a cultural, geopolitical, and psychological problem --ultimately harboring and translating an experimental condition. How, Ana Ugarte asks, does the test-subject apprehend their body as it lurks in the laboratory's vaults? Humans and non-humans who are destined for various forms of testing -pharmacological, eugenic, neoliberal, communist, and otherwise- hyper-monitor the state of a corporeality that is simultaneously their own and alien, cause and effect of the Caribbean laboratory, pathogenic and pathologized. Through interoception --the perception of internal bodily signals-- test-subjects stu
