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Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007
Alan Cobley and Victor C. Simpson
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This work is a collection of selected papers presented at the conference “Trajectories of Freedom: Caribbean Societies, 1807–2007”, a theme inspired by the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British Empire. The papers interrogate and problematize shifting notions and expressions of “freedom” as they have evolved in Caribbean societies over the past two hundred years and as they have been applied in the context of the contemporary Caribbean.
Together, these essays illustrate the historical and continuing efforts in the various spheres of human endeavour in the Caribbean, including culture, education, language, social organization, gender and politics – notwithstanding the constraints placed on Caribbean people by the legacies of slavery and colonialism – to finish the business of emancipation.
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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PART 1. HISTORY AND POLITICS
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1. DIFFERENT TRAJECTORIES OF FREEDOM IN THE ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN
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2. TROPICAL LIBERTARIANS
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3. ERIC WILLIAMS AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
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PART 2. LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
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4. DOMINICA AS SPIRITUAL LANDSCAPE
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5. INDEPENDENCE OR NATIONALISM?
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6. PERFORMATIVE BONDAGE
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7. FREEDOM OF THE SPIRIT AND AFRICAN CULTURAL RETENTIONS
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8. MYTH AND RITUAL IN HOSAY, RAMLEELAAND CARNIVAL AS EXPRESSIONS OF A VIBRANT CARIBBEAN CULTURE
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PART 3. EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE
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9. MUSEUM EDUCATION AS A MEANS TO PROMOTE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
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10. “CAN U ASSIST ME?”
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11. LANGUAGE, IDENTITY AND FREEDOM
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PART 4. GENDER
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12. REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN (JAMAICAN) DANCEHALL POPULAR CULTURE
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13. THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CARIBBEAN WOMAN’S QUESTION
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CONTRIBUTORS
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Published: 2013
Publisher: The University of the West Indies Press
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