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Nationalism and Identity: Culture and the Imagination in a Caribbean Diaspora
Stefano Harney
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Adding to the comparative tone of much of this book, models of nationalism and ethnicity, often based on other societies, are tested against the imaginings of Trinidad by such essayists as V S Naipaul, C L R James, Willi Chen, Valerie Belgrave and Earl Lovelace.
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
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Reading the Nation
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Post-Colonial Theory
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Theories of Nationalism
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Caribbean Studies
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Readings of Trinidad
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Trinidad Imagined
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Readings of the Caribbean
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Reading Literary History
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1 Beyond Nationalism: Literary Nation-building in the Work of Earl Lovelace and Michael Anthony
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Dilemmas of Literary Nationalism
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Class Struggle and Anti-Colonial Struggle
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The Struggle for the Trinidadian
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The Independent Imagination in the Independent Nation
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The Practice of Peoplehood
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2 Men Go Have Respect For All O' We: Valerie Belgrave's Invention of Trinidad
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Inventing the Mixed Nation
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The Metadiscourse of Race
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The Counter-discourse of Class
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History against Itself
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Nationalism without Equality
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Inventing the Rules of Class
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Mistresses to the National Body
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3 Willi Chen and Carnival Nationalism in Trinidad
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Chinese Text of Identity
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Nation of Imagi-nations
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An Indian Text of Identity
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Nation as Street Theatre
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Theories on Containing Chen
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Chen's Carnival
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4 Samuel Selvon and the Chronopolitics of a Diasporic Nationalism
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Selvon Rediscovered Discovering Trinidad
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The Challenge of Trinidadian Identity
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Challenging the Sociology of Race Relations in Britain
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The Chronopolitics of Creolization
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Predatory Creolization
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5 Neil Bissoondath and Migrant Liberation from the Nation
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The Nation Abandoned
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The Uninhabitable Text of the Nation
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The Politics of Imagined History
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Canada Re-imagined
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6 VS. Naipaul and the Pitfalls of Nationalism
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Dissent in the Nationalist Project
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The Janus Face of Nationalism
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Reading Internal Oppression
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Reading Revolutionary Grenada
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Reading Naipaul as a Counter-revolutionary
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Inventing the Nationless Cosmopolitan
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The South–South Cosmopolitan
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Nationalism as Dependency Theory
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7 C.L.R.James and Egalitarian Nationalism in the Caribbean
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An Alternative Nationalist Project
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Caribbean History Regained
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'The Supreme Artist'
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James as National Artist
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The Nationalist Project Begun
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The Artist as Product of the People
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The Nation as Product of the People
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CONCLUSION: Mud Mas: Playing Identity
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REFERENCES
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INDEX
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Citable Link
Published: 2006
Publisher: The University of the West Indies Press
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