Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century by Smith, Faith

Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781478017042)

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Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century by Smith, Faith

Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century

$99.95
Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century by Smith, Faith

Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean's Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century

$99.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Faith Smith
ISBN-10: 147801704X
ISBN-13: 9781478017042
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2023
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
By Faith Smith
By Faith Smith
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Faith Smith is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean and editor of Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean.

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