Trajectories of Freedom
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Trajectories of Freedom

Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007

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eBook - ePub

Trajectories of Freedom

Caribbean Societies, 1807-2007

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. PART 1
  3. Different Trajectories of Freedom in the Anglophone Caribbean
  4. Tropical Libertarians
  5. Eric Williams and the Labour Movement in Trinidad and Tobago
  6. PART 2
  7. Dominica as Spiritual Landscape
  8. Independence or Nationalism?
  9. Performative Bondage
  10. Freedom of the Spirit and African Cultural Retentions
  11. Myth and Ritual in Hosay, Ramleela and Carnival as Expressions of a Vibrant Caribbean Culture
  12. PART 3
  13. Museum Education as a Means to Promote Equal Opportunities
  14. "Can u assist me?"
  15. Language, Identity and Freedom
  16. PART 4
  17. Exploring Representations of Gender and Sexuality in (Jamaican) Dancehall Popular Culture
  18. The Twenty-first-Century Caribbean Woman's Question
  19. CONTRIBUTORS