Nationalism and Identity: Culture and the Imagination in a Caribbean Diaspora

CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
Reading the Nation......Page 12
Post-Colonial Theory......Page 14
Theories of Nationalism......Page 15
Caribbean Studies......Page 16
Readings of Trinidad......Page 18
Trinidad Imagined......Page 25
Readings of the Caribbean......Page 26
Reading Literary History......Page 31
1 Beyond Nationalism: Literary Nation-building in the Work of Earl Lovelace and Michael Anthony......Page 40
Dilemmas of Literary Nationalism......Page 43
Class Struggle and Anti-Colonial Struggle......Page 44
The Struggle for the Trinidadian......Page 47
The Independent Imagination in the Independent Nation......Page 51
The Practice of Peoplehood......Page 57
2 Men Go Have Respect For All O\' We: Valerie Belgrave\'s Invention of Trinidad......Page 61
Inventing the Mixed Nation......Page 62
The Metadiscourse of Race......Page 64
The Counter-discourse of Class......Page 65
History against Itself......Page 69
Nationalism without Equality......Page 71
Inventing the Rules of Class......Page 73
Mistresses to the National Body......Page 74
3 Willi Chen and Carnival Nationalism in Trinidad......Page 80
Chinese Text of Identity......Page 82
Nation of Imagi-nations......Page 86
An Indian Text of Identity......Page 88
Nation as Street Theatre......Page 91
Theories on Containing Chen......Page 95
Chen\'s Carnival......Page 96
4 Samuel Selvon and the Chronopolitics of a Diasporic Nationalism......Page 100
Selvon Rediscovered Discovering Trinidad......Page 102
The Challenge of Trinidadian Identity......Page 106
Challenging the Sociology of Race Relations in Britain......Page 109
The Chronopolitics of Creolization......Page 113
Predatory Creolization......Page 119
5 Neil Bissoondath and Migrant Liberation from the Nation......Page 127
The Nation Abandoned......Page 130
The Uninhabitable Text of the Nation......Page 134
The Politics of Imagined History......Page 137
Canada Re-imagined......Page 140
6 VS. Naipaul and the Pitfalls of Nationalism......Page 148
Dissent in the Nationalist Project......Page 149
The Janus Face of Nationalism......Page 152
Reading Internal Oppression......Page 159
Reading Revolutionary Grenada......Page 163
Reading Naipaul as a Counter-revolutionary......Page 165
Inventing the Nationless Cosmopolitan......Page 167
The South–South Cosmopolitan......Page 169
Nationalism as Dependency Theory......Page 171
7 C.L.R. James and Egalitarian Nationalism in the Caribbean......Page 178
An Alternative Nationalist Project......Page 182
Caribbean History Regained......Page 184
‘The Supreme Artist’......Page 185
James as National Artist......Page 188
The Nationalist Project Begun......Page 191
The Artist as Product of the People......Page 195
The Nation as Product of the People......Page 196
CONCLUSION: Mud Mas: Playing Identity......Page 201
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