In 1980, Russell Banks published The Book of Jamaïca, inspired by his own discomfort, from disquiet, from the impossibility of being acculturated. The history of the slave trade is dealt with as a true crime scene, and it exposes the violence which constitutes race domination : the prostitution of subalterns that goes along with sexual brutality, black bodies which are merchandised, subject to sadism, killed, cut out like meat. As well as the complicity of the subalterns in their own reification and in their own extermination. That’s what the author describes as a « world corrupted down to its depths », because the violence generates an infinite system of perversion.