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Creole in the archive : imagery, presence and the location of the Caribbean figure / Roshini Kempadoo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kempadoo, Roshini, author.
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on women and gender.
- Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--Caribbean Area--Portraits.
- Working class.
- Creoles--Caribbean Area--Portraits.
- Creoles.
- Working class in art.
- Multiracial people in art.
- Visual communication--Social aspects--Caribbean Area.
- Visual communication.
- Collective memory--Social aspects--Caribbean Area.
- Collective memory.
- Art, Caribbean--21st century--Themes, motives.
- Art, Caribbean.
- Art and history--Caribbean Area.
- Art and history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 pages) : color illustrations, photographs.
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] ; New York, [New York] : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016.
- Summary:
- The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from struggles for social, political and cultural autonomy. Contemporary visual artists engaging with the Caribbean as a 21st century globalised space have focused on visually re-imagining historical material and events as memories, histories and dreamscapes. Creole in the Archive uses photographic analysis to explore portraits, postcards and social documentation of the colonial worker between 1850 and 1960 and contemporary, often digital, visual art by post-independent, postcolonial Caribbean artists. Drawing on Derridean ideas of the archive, the book reconceptualises the Caribbean visual archive as contiguous and relational. It argues that using a creolising archive practice, the conjuncture of contemporary artworks, historical imagery and associated locations can develop insightful new multimodal representations of Caribbean subjectivities.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Notebook of a Return
- Creolising Archives: A Relational and Contiguous Practice
- Caribbean Spaces: Seeing Her Presence, Exploring Her Past
- Controlling Her Image
- See We Here: Determining the Caribbean Self
- Visualising Change
- Coda: Conclusion Ouverte.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783482221
- 1783482222
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