Nationalism and Identity
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Language
English
ISBN
9789766400163
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Reading the Nation
Post-Colonial Theory
Theories of Nationalism
Caribbean Studies
Readings of Trinidad
Trinidad Imagined
Readings of the Caribbean
Reading Literary History
1 Beyond Nationalism: Literary Nation-building in the Work of Earl Lovelace and Michael Anthony
Dilemmas of Literary Nationalism
Class Struggle and Anti-Colonial Struggle
The Struggle for the Trinidadian
The Independent Imagination in the Independent Nation
The Practice of Peoplehood
2 Men Go Have Respect For All O' We: Valerie Belgrave's Invention of Trinidad
Inventing the Mixed Nation
The Metadiscourse of Race
The Counter-discourse of Class
History against Itself
Nationalism without Equality
Inventing the Rules of Class
Mistresses to the National Body
3 Willi Chen and Carnival Nationalism in Trinidad
Chinese Text of Identity
Nation of Imagi-nations
An Indian Text of Identity
Nation as Street Theatre
Theories on Containing Chen
Chen's Carnival
4 Samuel Selvon and the Chronopolitics of a Diasporic Nationalism
Selvon Rediscovered Discovering Trinidad
The Challenge of Trinidadian Identity
Challenging the Sociology of Race Relations in Britain
The Chronopolitics of Creolization
Predatory Creolization
5 Neil Bissoondath and Migrant Liberation from the Nation
The Nation Abandoned
The Uninhabitable Text of the Nation
The Politics of Imagined History
Canada Re-imagined
6 VS. Naipaul and the Pitfalls of Nationalism
Dissent in the Nationalist Project
The Janus Face of Nationalism
Reading Internal Oppression
Reading Revolutionary Grenada
Reading Naipaul as a Counter-revolutionary
Inventing the Nationless Cosmopolitan
The South–South Cosmopolitan
Nationalism as Dependency Theory
7 C.L.R.James and Egalitarian Nationalism in the Caribbean
An Alternative Nationalist Project
Caribbean History Regained
'The Supreme Artist'
James as National Artist
The Nationalist Project Begun
The Artist as Product of the People
The Nation as Product of the People
CONCLUSION: Mud Mas: Playing Identity
REFERENCES
INDEX
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