part I. ’Are you afraid?’ : merciful haunting in a new world setting -- part II. ’A slave by choice’ : re-reading the (neo) slave narrative -- part III. ’To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal’ : memory, trauma, and maternal loss -- part Ivolume ’It was not a grace; it was a mercy’ : spirituality in the Americas -- part volume ’This land is our home ... but I am exile here’ : alternative geographies.