Title: Caribbean empire : the impact of culture, literature and history /
Authors: Teelucksingh, Jerome,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Culture and globalization Caribbean Area.; National characteristics, Caribbean.; Caribbean Area Civilization.; Caribbean Area Intellectual life.
Contents: Grave injustices and stolen legacies -- Ursule, a liberated female -- Spirituality and superstition in West Indian novels -- Creating a Caribbean empire: the academic contributions of Sir Arthur Lewis -- Young labor in Caribbean slavery 1655-1834 -- The danger of ideas and leaders: re-examining the Black Jacobins -- Charisma and controversy in Jamaica's dancehall culture -- Migrants, madness, myths and the mystique: glimpses of carnival in Trinidad and Tobago and among the diaspora -- Eric Williams and party politics -- Distorted portrayals in Caryl Phillips's A new world order -- West Indian writers and cultural chauvinism -- Shades of colonialism: Black power in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1970s -- The legacy of Dr. Rudranath Capildeo.