Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2139520
Gelien Matthews
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2139560
F. Ledgister
ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING, AND MOST valuable, approaches to Western historiography over the past couple of decades has been the definition of the Atlantic Basin as a space with a shared history of interaction. Trevor Burnard’s text presents us with Jamaica’s eighteenth-century history set in a wider Atlantic context. This is of considerable importance as it shows Jamaica not only as a slave society, but also as one deeply embedded in a complex of relations with the North American colonies that became the United States, with Britain, with the slave trade, and the broader Caribbean in the context of British and French imperial contestation. The book is not so much a monograph as a series of connected essays with Jamaica’s position within the network of connections throughout the North Atlantic region. It is, as a result, a richer examination of what political, economic and social factors existed and mattered for understanding Jamaica’s position in the imperial world of the eighteenth century. This is, thus, an analysis of what it meant to be an economy founded on slavery; an economy substantially affected by the eruption of the American Revolution, and the French and Haitian Revolutions. It is also an examination of the prosperity of a ruling class in a fundamentally oppressive, indeed murderous, colony. As Burnard states, in his introduction, “in 1774, the white residents of Jamaica were the richest group of people in the British Empire” (1). Black Jamaicans were, on the other hand, among the most immiserated people on the planet. Mixed-race Jamaicans lived in a condition of uncertainty, free but disempowered, and excluded from participation in the political life of the colony. These themes form a thread within the text, the chapters each illuminating an aspect of what it meant to be a society founded upon a structure of domination, and oppression; a society that founded great wealth on the basis of human suffering. To a degree this is a twice-told tale, but Burnard brings to light aspects of the story that explain how, and why this came to be the case.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2139521
Indrani Bachan-Persad
THE ROLE OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA IN ELECTION campaigns has been one of the most studied areas in political communication. Some studies have pointed to their importance in drawing attention to candidates and their tremendous power in determining which news, events, candidates and issues are covered in any given day;1 their agenda effects,2 which predict that elements which are important in the media agenda will become important in the public agenda;3 their framing effects,4 selecting and highlighting some facets of issues and events and making connections so as to promote a particular interpretation, evaluation and solution in order to influence what people think, know and have feelings about;5 and their mediatised effects,6 which indicate that the media shape the processes and discourses of political communication as well as the society in which that communication takes place. However, theorists caution that it is difficult to find clear evidence that the media decisively influence the outcome of elections, though they can easily influence them.7 Over the last decade, social media, especially Facebook, are fast becoming the most popular media for electioneering. They are considered as platforms for political engagement and civic participation of voters.8 Researchers have examined how elections campaigns unfold, how candidates are embedded in communication networks and how they interact among themselves and the public.9 Some studies have investigated the way that politicians utilise social networking sites as political platforms during election campaigns mostly to disseminate information.10 Since Barack Obama’s 2008 election campaign, social networking sites in political contexts have been hailed for their democratic and participatory potential11 and for increasing the public’s engagement with
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2139550
A. Ballas
CINEMA IS NOT ALWAYS REVOLUTIONARY, BUT REVOLUTION is always cinematic. Countless episodes from revolutionary history have been captured on celluloid for decades and populated with the familiar cast of star-studded and star-spangled ‘great men’ elevated in both Hollywood and the Euro-American mythos: Jeff Daniels as Washington, Nick Nolte as Jefferson, Paul Giamotti as Adams, and so on. This is a cinema, in other words, brimming with land speculators, slave-owners, their legal counsels, faux radicals and rapists. In all their alabaster glory, such vaunted and apparently regal figureheads have been celebrated if not outright worshipped on the silver screen over cinema’s longue durée; their powder-wigged visages regularly plastered on promotional posters in multiplexes and monumentalised in digital monochrome on streaming platforms worldwide. In Hollywood in particular, the visual history of the ‘Age of Revolutions’ unfolds as though it were an unbroken, decades-long tracking shot spanning the history of settler colonialism, Western imperialism and its jingoistic march through twentiethand twenty-first-century cinema – shot in both HD and out of the barrel of a gun. Although films based on the so-called Age of Revolutions are anything but scarce in Hollywood and European cinema, it may come as a surprise for many to learn that the Haitian Revolution is conspicuously absent from the big screen historically as today. Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games1 is Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall’s meticulous exploration of the visual legacy of the Haitian Revolution in Hollywood and throughout the Western world, offering a corrective to the decades of cinematic and scholarly neglect of the revolution and its historical import.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2139518
Randolph Jones
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2139552
F. Ledgister
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2139562
Diana Thorburn
{"title":"The Caribbean and the Wider World: Commentaries on My Life and Career","authors":"Diana Thorburn","doi":"10.1080/00086495.2022.2139562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2022.2139562","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35039,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48211911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00086495.2022.2105029
N. Butt
BORN IN 1932 IN AN IMPOVERISHED HINDU community of Trinidad, V.S. Naipaul moved to England in 1950, where he spent most of his life. As a writer of Indo-Caribbean origin, Naipaul has an important place in Caribbean literary history, which is haunted by colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism. Despite the fact that Naipaul claims not to adhere to any political principles in his work, his literature tends to become a form of resistance to colonial and postcolonial configurations across national and cultural borders. Scholars like Angus Richmund have criticised Naipaul for being “the mimic man”1 who merely documents colonial anxieties or insecurities in his work, although he may appear to be preoccupied with the predicament of the formerly colonised people in our postmodern world. His anti/heroes do not show an active resistance to the remnants of colonialism, but rather a passive one as they refuse to conform to the fantasies of the West. These fantasies are rooted in cultural othering, which appears to haunt his lonely and solitary characters who as a result tend to possess floating or fragmented identities. According to Min Zhou,
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