From “Back o’ Town”

The creolized expression, “back o’ town,” pinpoints the locales customarily allocated to the workforce, generally within proximity of the rich landowners and merchants. Highlighting temporality, as well, chapter seven reveals unresolved political tensions, centering Boxing Day as the vehicle for transgressive release. The parade and procession routes speak multivocally about the symbolic reclamation of seats of power. As a theater of the street, movement from “back o’ town” through the center of commerce functions as a reenactment of persistence and resistance along with a sense of triumph over relentless obstruction. Each Boxing Day site offers its own particularized temporal and spatial dynamic. While not exactly waging political or class warfare, the masses contest colonial discourse by strategically creating time and space for a subaltern group of people to challenge the hegemony through the exercise of antithetical power.