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Remnants of Conquest The Island Caribs and their Visitors, 1877-1998

Hulme, Peter
Innbundet / 2000 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198112150
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
569 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
382

Forfatter
Hulme, Peter

Biografisk notat

Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature, University of Essex

Remnants of Conquest The Island Caribs and their Visitors, 1877-1998

Hulme, Peter
Innbundet / 2000 / Engelsk
Hulme, Peter
Innbundet / 2000 / Engelsk
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Meticulously researched ... the real virtue of this book is that it offers a solid, historically embedded and fascinating account of how the Caribs in Dominica have been constructed through travel writings ... Its detailed focus on a small place and a small population over more than a century ... is a welcome reminder of the riches of uptapped archives, and a genuine contribution to this field of study.

Studies in Travel Writing

This will be a useful text for courses in postcolonial literature, especially those that have an emphasis on travel and inter-cultural encounter. However, it also may have a broader appeal for graduate courses and research concerned with the cultural geography of race, ethnicity and indigeneity.

Cultural Geographies

The book addresses a compelling range of questions about travel, indigenous identity and postcoloniality ... A key contribution of this book is its exploration of complex questions of race and ethnicity.

Cultural Geographies

In 1877 a US ornithologist stumbled across a small indigenous Caribbean population, the Caribs, still living in a remote part of the small island of Dominica. His account of his stay among the Caribs started a trickle of visitors which grew to a steady stream and is now in the full flood of mass tourism. Remnants of Conquest offers an account and analysis of these visitors' writings as they struggle to understand the way of life of a twentieth-century indigenous community, inhabitants of a postcolonial world. The visitors who have followed the ornithologist's footsteps include the novelist Jean Rhys, who was fulfilling a childhood ambition, a colonial officer who expected to meet Red Indians in warpaint, a British naval officer who bombarded the Reserve with starshells, and an anthropologist who settled on the island with a Carib woman. Through this close focus on a small place extensively written about, Remnants of Conquest raises crucial questions about the postcolonial perceptions of indigeneity.
Les mer
Remnants of Conquest offers a detailed account of the modern writers who have visited the Caribs, descendents of the supposedly fierce tribe in the West Indies who fought against European invaders for three centuries. Writers include Jean Rhys and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Les mer
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS ; NOTE ON REFERENCES ; AFTERWORD ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; CHRONOLOGY ; NOTES ON VISITORS ; APPENDIX: ORIGINAL LANGUAGE QUOTATIONS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; REFERENCES ; INDEX
Les mer
An important engagement in postcolonial literature by one of the key thinkers in the field
Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature, University of Essex
An important engagement in postcolonial literature by one of the key thinkers in the field

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Meticulously researched ... the real virtue of this book is that it offers a solid, historically embedded and fascinating account of how the Caribs in Dominica have been constructed through travel writings ... Its detailed focus on a small place and a small population over more than a century ... is a welcome reminder of the riches of uptapped archives, and a genuine contribution to this field of study.

Studies in Travel Writing

This will be a useful text for courses in postcolonial literature, especially those that have an emphasis on travel and inter-cultural encounter. However, it also may have a broader appeal for graduate courses and research concerned with the cultural geography of race, ethnicity and indigeneity.

Cultural Geographies

The book addresses a compelling range of questions about travel, indigenous identity and postcoloniality ... A key contribution of this book is its exploration of complex questions of race and ethnicity.

Cultural Geographies

In 1877 a US ornithologist stumbled across a small indigenous Caribbean population, the Caribs, still living in a remote part of the small island of Dominica. His account of his stay among the Caribs started a trickle of visitors which grew to a steady stream and is now in the full flood of mass tourism. Remnants of Conquest offers an account and analysis of these visitors' writings as they struggle to understand the way of life of a twentieth-century indigenous community, inhabitants of a postcolonial world. The visitors who have followed the ornithologist's footsteps include the novelist Jean Rhys, who was fulfilling a childhood ambition, a colonial officer who expected to meet Red Indians in warpaint, a British naval officer who bombarded the Reserve with starshells, and an anthropologist who settled on the island with a Carib woman. Through this close focus on a small place extensively written about, Remnants of Conquest raises crucial questions about the postcolonial perceptions of indigeneity.
Les mer
Remnants of Conquest offers a detailed account of the modern writers who have visited the Caribs, descendents of the supposedly fierce tribe in the West Indies who fought against European invaders for three centuries. Writers include Jean Rhys and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Les mer
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS ; NOTE ON REFERENCES ; AFTERWORD ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; CHRONOLOGY ; NOTES ON VISITORS ; APPENDIX: ORIGINAL LANGUAGE QUOTATIONS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; REFERENCES ; INDEX
Les mer
An important engagement in postcolonial literature by one of the key thinkers in the field
Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature, University of Essex
An important engagement in postcolonial literature by one of the key thinkers in the field

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198112150
Publisert
2000
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
569 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
145 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
382

Forfatter
Hulme, Peter

Biografisk notat

Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature, University of Essex

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