Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary: Sugar and Obeah

ISBN-13: 9780415876896 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 204 str.

Keith Sandiford

Opis

This book theorizes a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary from specific belief systems related to sugar and obeah. The author locates the archives of the groups' cultural knowledge and social power.

Spis treści

List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1: The Imaginary as a Poetics of Theory and Crosscultural Consciousness 2: Sugar and the Ocean: Mythic Origins and Imaginary Power 3: Ligon: Atlantic Crossroads, Imaginary Prospects in the History 4: Ligon: Sugar and the Myth of Cure 5: Lewis: The Imaginary of Counterorders in the Journal 6: Lewis: Obeah and the Myth of Disease Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Keith Sandiford is a Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author The Cultural Politics of Sugar.