Introduction : Caribbean identity poetics : subjectivity, I-mage, collage -- 1. "To get around the rule of silence" : performing masculinity as detour -- 2. "I spy" : curators, translators, and in-trust narrators -- 3. Secrets and silence, displacement and deliverance -- 4. Travelers' trees and umbilical cords : embodying diaspora, renegotiating home -- 5. A roving I : autofiction(s) and subversions