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Strolling in the Ruins - Faith Smith

Strolling in the Ruins

The Caribbean's Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century

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Buch | Softcover
280 Seiten
2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1968-8 (ISBN)
CHF 36,65 inkl. MwSt
Faith Smith examines everyday voices in Jamaica and Trinidad during the “quiet period” between the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion and World War I in the British Caribbean’s history to discern sentiments about empire and nationhood.
In Strolling in the Ruins Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and embarrassingly pro-imperial within the larger narrative of Jamaican and Trinidadian nationalism. Between the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion and World War I, British imperialism was taken for granted among both elites and ordinary people, while nationalist discourses would not begin to shape political imagination in the West Indies for decades. Smith argues that this moment, far from being uneventful, disrupts the inevitability of nationhood in the mid-twentieth century and anticipates the Caribbean’s present-day relationship to global power. Smith assembles and analyzes a diverse set of texts, from Carnival songs, poems, and novels to newspapers, photographs, and gardens, to examine theoretical and literary-historiographic questions concerning time and temporality, empire and diaspora, immigration and indigeneity, gender and the politics of desire, Africa’s place within Caribbeanist discourse, and the idea of the Caribbean itself. Closely examining these cultural expressions of apparent quiescence, Smith locates the quiet violence of colonial rule and the insistence of colonial subjects on making meaningful lives.

Faith Smith is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean and editor of Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Introducing a Quiet Period  1
1. Cuba, South Africa, and the Anglophone Caribbean’s New Imperial Century  33
2. Ruination’s Intimate Architecture  68
3. Photography’s “Typical Negro”  118
4. Plotting Inheritance  144
Coda  186
Notes  191
Bibliography  229
Index  257

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4780-1968-9 / 1478019689
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-1968-8 / 9781478019688
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