1st Edition

Archiving Caribbean Identity Records, Community, and Memory

264 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the "Caribbeanization" of archives in the region, considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in new formats. Interpreting records in the broadest sense, the 15 chapters in this volume explore a wide variety of records that represent new archival interpretations. The book is split into two... Read more

Introduction

John A. Aarons, Jeannette A. Bastian, and Stanley H. Griffin

Part I. Tangible and Intangible Formats

Chapter 1. Soca and collective memory; Savannah Grass as an archive of Carnival

Kai Barratt

Chapter 2. Jamaican twitter as a repository for documenting memory and social resistance: Listening to the "articulate minority"

Norman Malcolm

Chapter 3. Singing Our Caribbean Identity: Programming the UWI, Mona Festival of the Nine Lessons with Carols

Shawn R. A. Wright

Chapter 4. Archives "cast in stone": Memorials as memory

Elsie E. Aarons

Chapter 5. Landscape as record: Archiving the Antigua Recreation Ground

Stephen Butters

Chapter 6. Concert Dance in Barbados as Archive: Dancing the national narratives

John Hunte

Chapter 7. Remembering an art exhibit: The Face of Jamaica, 1963-1964

Monique Barnett-Davidson

Chapter 8. Traditional and new record sources in geointerpretive methods for reconstructing biophysical history: Whither Withywood

Thera Edwards and Edward Robinson

Part II. Collections Through a Caribbean Lens

Chapter 9. Resistance in/and the Pre-Emancipation Archives

Tonia Sutherland, Linda Sturtz, and Paulette Kerr

Chapter 10. Postcolonial philately as memory and history: Stamping a new identity for Trinidad and Tobago

Desaray Pivott-Nolan

Chapter 11. Recasting Jamaican sculptor Ronald Moody (1900-1984): An archival homecoming

Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski

Chapter 12. St. Lucian memory and identity through the eyes of John Robert Lee

Antonia Charlemagne-Marshall

Chapter 13. Crop Over and Carnival in the archives of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago

Allison O. Ramsay

Chapter 14. Ecclesiastical records as sources of social history: The Anglican Church of Trinidad and Tobago

Janelle Duke

Chapter 15. Erasure and retention in Jamaica’s official memory: The case of the disappearing telegrams

James Robertson

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Index

Biography

John A. Aarons, now retired, was Executive Director of the National Library of Jamaica (1992–2002), Government Archivist of Jamaica (2002–2008), and University Archivist of the University of the West Indies (2009–2014).

Jeannette A. Bastian is Emerita Professor at Simmons University. She is currently an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Library and Information at the University of the West Indies.

Stanley H. Griffin is Deputy Dean, Undergraduate Matters (Humanities), and Lecturer in Archival and Information Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Department of Library and Information Studies, at the University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica.