Strolling in the ruins : the Caribbean's non-sovereign modern in the early twentieth century / Faith Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Faith, 1964- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Caribbean, English-speaking--History.

Black people.

Black nationalism--Caribbean, English-speaking.

Black nationalism.

Nationalism in literature.

Caribbean, English-speaking--History--20th century.

Caribbean, English-speaking.

Caribbean, English-speaking--Politics and government--20th century.

Great Britain--Colonies--America.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cuba, South Africa, and the Anglophone Caribbean's new imperial century

Ruination's intimate achitecture

Photography's "typical negro"

Plotting inheritance.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Smith, Faith, 1964- Strolling in the ruins.

ISBN:

9781478024316

1478024313

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.