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Symbolism 16 (Hardcover)
Rudiger Ahrens, Florian Klager, Klaus Stierstorfer; Contributions by Keith A. Sandiford
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Essays in this special focus constellate around the diverse
symbolic forms in which Caribbean consciousness has manifested
itself transhistorically, shaping identities within and without
structures of colonialism and postcolonialism. Offering
interdisciplinary critical, analytical and theoretical approaches
to the objects of study, the book explores textual, visual,
material and ritual meanings encoded in Caribbean lived and
aesthetic practices.
With the expansion of trade and empire in the early modern period,
the status of sugar changed from expensive rarity to popular
consumer commodity, and its real and imagined properties functioned
as central metaphors for the cultural desires of West Indian
Creoles. Sandiford's 2000 study examines how the writings of six
colonial West Indian authors explore these properties to publicise
the economic value of the consumer object, and to invent a metaphor
for West Indian cultural desires. Sandiford defines this
metaphorical turn as a trope of 'negotiation' which organises the
structure and content of the narratives: his argument establishes
the function of this trope as a source of knowledge about the
creolised imagination, and about its social and political idealism.
Based on extensive historical knowledge of the period as well as
postcolonial theory, this book suggests the possibilities
negotiation offers in the process of recovery of West Indian
intellectual history.
Keith Sandiford's study examines the importance of sugar as a central metaphor in the work of six influential authors of the colonial West Indies. Sugar, he argues, became a focus for cultural desires as well as a hard fact of the Caribbean's political economy. Sandiford defines this metaphorical turn as a trope of "negotiation" that organizes the structure and content of the narratives. Based on extensive historical knowledge of the period and recent postcolonial theory, this book suggests the possibilities negotiation offers in the continuing recovery of West Indian intellectual history.
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