Imaginary States
Subtitle: STUDIES IN CULTURAL TRANSNATIONALISM (Transnational Cultural Studies)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: March 19, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780252023934
Subjects: Cultural studies; Culture; Social Science; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Third World Development; Communication; Sociology - General; Globalization; Intercultural Communication
First sentence: A postcolonial Caribbean? Even if one sets aside the extremely complex colonial history of the Caribbean occupation or the anticolonial movements of the last two centuries or so (at least back to 1 January 1804), the question of postcolonialism remains problematic, for many of the islands of the Caribbean still labor under the paternalist ministrations of the Western colonizer: The beke still has a material presence in the Antilles today.