This invention of absence—what I term affirmative diaspora —is the ultimate expression of extra quality. The return does not heal; it produces new cultural forms. The out-of-season figs become a symbol: they will not bear fruit, but their very out-of-place-ness creates a new temporal layer, a surplus that disrupts both colonial linear time and traditional cyclical time.

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