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Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833 - Atlantic Archipelagos (Paperback)
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Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833 - Atlantic Archipelagos (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the
long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean.
Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and
transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly
shaped Scotland's economic, social and cultural development, and
draws out the implications for current debates on Scotland's
national narratives of identity. Eighteenth- to nineteenth-century
Scottish writers are re-examined in this new light. Morris explores
the ways that discourses of "improvement" in both Scotland and the
Caribbean are mediated by the modes of pastoral and georgic which
struggle to explain and contain the labour conditions of
agricultural labourers, both free and enslaved. The ambivalent
relationship of Scottish writers, including Robert Burns, to
questions around abolition allows fresh perspectives on the era.
Furthermore, Morris considers the origins of a hybrid
Scottish-Creole identity through two nineteenth-century figures -
Robert Wedderburn and Mary Seacole. The final chapter moves forward
to consider the implications for post-devolution (post-referendum)
Scotland. Underpinning this investigation is the conviction that
collective memory is a key feature which shapes behaviour and
beliefs in the present; the recovery of the memory of slavery is
performed here in the interests of social justice in the present.
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