Ludolph, Rebekah2013-04-242013-04-2420132013-04-24http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4545My reading of the figure of Adele, a woman with dementia, in David Chariandy’s novel Soucouyant: A Novel of Forgetting (2007), brings Giorgio Agamben’s biopolitical concept of “bare life” together with the notion of the subject in diaspora to theorize a new mentality that I call “bare mind.” The notion of “bare mind” addresses how cognitive imperialism creates a biopolitical state of exception both under forms of sovereign power and within a liberal regime of multicultural governmentality, while acknowledging the ways in which dementia, portrayed as the ‘forgetting’ of dominant knowledge regimes, reveals resistance to cognitive imperialism.enDiasporaCanadian MulticulturalismBiopowerBare LifeGovernmentalityAgambenDementiaTrinidadSoucouyantDavid ChariandyCognitive ImperialismDiagnosisBlack AtlanticThesisAvailable to the World Wide Web