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In his discussion of identity in the Caribbean diaspora, Stuart Hall speaks to the location points of ‘being’ and ‘becoming’ in the ‘New World’, ’the primal scene, where the fateful encounter was staged between Africa and the West’. The specificity of identity location in the diaspora of the contemporary Caribbean, and the fraught tensions of these locations is explored in the works of Leasho Johnson and Monique Gilpin. Both artists engage with issues of identity through the use of disruptive histories to rebirth new narratives. Leasho Johnson explores the constructs of gender in relation to …