Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998

ISBN-13: 9780198112150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 384 str.

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Opis

In 1877 a US ornithologist stumbled across a small indigenous Caribbean population, the Caribs, still living in a remote part of the small island of Dominica. His account of his stay among the Caribs started a trickle of visitors which grew to a steady stream and is now in the full flood of mass tourism. Remnants of Conquest offers an account and analysis of these visitors' writings as they struggle to understand the way of life of a twentieth-century indigenous community, inhabitants of a postcolonial world.

Recenzje

The book addresses a compelling range of questions about travel, indigenous identity and postcoloniality ... A key contribution of this book is its exploration of complex questions of race and ethnicity.

O autorze

Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature, University of Essex