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Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary Sugar and Obeah
By Keith Sandiford
Copyright 2011
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This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on Richard Ligon’s History of Barbados (1657) and Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis’ Journal of a West India... Read more
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
Biography
Keith Sandiford is a Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He is the author The Cultural Politics of Sugar.
