Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond

Jack Webb, Rod Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, William Tantam

• Publisher: University of London Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781908857651
• eBook ISBN:
  9781908857668
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In recent years, academics, policy makers and media outlets have increasingly recognised the importance of Caribbean migrations and migrants to the histories and cultures of countries across the Northern Atlantic. Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation furthers our understanding of the lives of many of these migrants, and the contexts through which they lived and continue to live. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. The chapters in this book range across disciplines and time periods to present a vibrant understanding of the ever-changing interactions between Caribbean peoples and colonialism as they migrated within and between colonial contexts. At the heart of this book are the voices of Caribbean migrants themselves, whose critical reflections on their experiences of migration and decolonisation are interwoven with the essays of academics and activists.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Prologue
• Introduction
• 1. Loving and leaving the new Jamaica: reckoning with the 1960s
• 2. Why did we come?
• 3. History to heritage: an assessment of Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, the Bahamas
• 4. ‘While nuff ah right and rahbit; we write and arrange’: deejay lyricism and the transcendental use of the voice in alternative public spaces in the UK
• 5. Journeying through the ‘motherland’
• 6. De Zie Contre Menti Kaba – when two eyes meet the lie ends. A Caribbean meditation on decolonising academic methodologies
• 7. Organising for the Caribbean
• 8. The consular Caribbean: consuls as agents of colonialism and decolonisation in the revolutionary Caribbean (1795–1848)
• 9. To ‘stay where you are’ as a decolonial gesture: Glissant’s philosophy of Antillean space in the context of Césaire and Fanon
• 10. Finding the Anancyesque in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the decolonisation project in Jamaica from 1938 to the present
• 11. Maybe one day I’ll go home
• Index