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In the grand design of slavery in the Caribbean, White planters
separated African slaves of similar tribal and linguistic groups in
an effort to destroy African cultural traditions. The result was an
African population that lost most of its African heritage and
adopted a creolized variant of European culture. The dominance of
Creolization, a colonial legacy, ignores the Caribbean multiethnic
mosaic and endangers national unity, good governance, and political
stability. Through a series of readings, this book argues that the
Creolization is antithetical and challenging to nation building and
results in cultural and working-class fragmentation, competition
for national space, ranking, ethno-cultural categorization,
racialization of consciousness, cultural imperialism, use of the
'political' race card, and ethnic dominance. This book acknowledges
the need to create a framework for mutual cultural appreciation and
institutionalization of all cultures in the pursuit of national
unity in the Caribbean.
In this volume, the editors and authors strive to understand the
evolving Trans-Caribbean as a discontinuous, displacing and
displaced, transnational space. It considers the imagined community
in the islands as its psycho-social homeland, while simultaneously
pursuing different cultural strategies of redefining and resisting
colonial 'homeland' conventions (which Kamau Brathwaite
appropriately termed the 'inner plantation'). Thus, the
Trans-Caribbean is suspended in a double-dialectic, which opposes
both the hegemonic metropolitan space inhabited, as well as the
romanticized, yet colonialized, 'inner plantation, ' whose
transcendence via migration perpetually turns out to be an
illusion. Given this, cultural production and migration remain at
the vortex of the Trans-Caribbean. The construction of cultural
products in the Trans-Caribbean understood as a collection of
social and new migratory practices both reflects and contests
post-colonial metropolitan hegemonies. Following Arjun Appadurai's
distinction, these homogenizing and heterogenizing counter-trends
in Trans-Cariabbean spaces can be observed through cultural
transactions manifesting themselves as ethnoscapes, mediascapes,
technoscapes, financescapes, cityscapes, ideoscapes, etc. For the
purposes of this book the editors invited anthropologists,
sociologists, political scientists, linguists, liberal arts and
gender studies specialists, as well as cultural and literary
historians to begin drawing some of the diasporic trajectories on
the huge canvas of cultural production throughout the
Trans-Caribbean.Constructing Vernacular Culture in the
Trans-Caribbean will find its audience among scholars in cultural
studies, migration, literary theory, and cultural criticism who
have a special interest in Caribbean and Latin American Studies, as
well as among students and scholars of migration and
postcolonialism and postmodernity in general."
This volume looks at the paradox of motherhood among the women of
Barbados, St Lucia and Dominica.
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