Readings in Caribbean history and culture : breaking ground

Readings in Caribbean history and culture : breaking ground / edited by D.A. Dunkley.

This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of cu...

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Other Authors: Dunkley, Daive A., 1973- (Editor), Bean, Dalea, Birthwright, Eldon, Burnard, Trevor, Dunkley, D., Gill, Dennis, Hucke, Claudia, Leacock, Coreen, Lord, Russell, Niblett, Michael, Ramcharitar, Raymond, Sivagurunathan, Shivani, Thompson, Benita, Warrican, S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2011.
Subjects:
Caribbean fiction > History and criticism.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > General.
Caribbean fiction
Civilization
Colonial influence
Intellectual life
Caribbean Area > Civilization.
Caribbean Area > Colonial influence.
Caribbean Area > History.
Caribbean Area > Intellectual life.
Caribbean Area
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Underground history : the persistent, un-heroic past / Raymond Ramcharitar
  • Slave instruction by the Anglican church and the transformation of slavery / D.A. Dunkley
  • Education for the future : shaking off the shackles of colonial times / Benita P. Thompson, S. Joel Warrican, and Coreen J. Leacock
  • The life of Rev. George Wilson Bridges : the Jamaican experience / D.A. Dunkley
  • Faithful delineations : Rev. George Wilson Bridges and photography / Russell Lord
  • Vectors of venereal diseases : the perceived threat of prostitutes to military efficiency in Jamaica during World Wars I and II / Dalea Bean
  • The manioc and the made-in-France : reconsidering creolization and commodity fetishism in Caribbean literature and theory / Michael Niblett
  • West Indian plays and Caribbean masculinity : an assessment of Black Jacobins, Ti Jean and his brothers, pantomime, and moon on a rainbow shawl / Dennis Gill
  • A "coolitudian" Caribbean text : the trajectory of renewal in David Dabydeen's Our lady of Demerara / Shivani Sivagurunathan
  • Beyond the national : cross-culturalism in the art of the Jamaican painter Karl Parboosingh / Claudia Hucke
  • Reggae as a rastafari poetic of disenchantment / Eldon V. Birthwright.

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