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Strolling in the Ruins - The Caribbean’s Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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Strolling in the Ruins - The Caribbean’s Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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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.
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Imprint: |
Duke University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
First published: |
2023 |
Authors: |
Faith Smith
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-1704-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
1-4780-1704-X |
Barcode: |
9781478017042 |
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