Remnants of Conquest - Peter Hulme

Remnants of Conquest

The Island Caribs and their Visitors, 1877-1998

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Buch | Hardcover
382 Seiten
2000
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-811215-0 (ISBN)
229,95 inkl. MwSt
Remnants of Conquest offers a detailed account of the modern writers who have visited the Caribs, descendents of the supposedly fierce tribe in the West Indies who fought against European invaders for three centuries. Writers include Jean Rhys and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
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.

The visitors who have followed the ornithologist's footsteps include the novelist Jean Rhys, who was fulfilling a childhood ambition, a colonial officer who expected to meet Red Indians in warpaint, a British naval officer who bombarded the Reserve with starshells, and an anthropologist who settled on the island with a Carib woman.

Through this close focus on a small place extensively written about, Remnants of Conquest raises crucial questions about the postcolonial perceptions of indigeneity.

Peter Hulme is Professor of Literature, University of Essex

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS ; NOTE ON REFERENCES ; AFTERWORD ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; CHRONOLOGY ; NOTES ON VISITORS ; APPENDIX: ORIGINAL LANGUAGE QUOTATIONS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; REFERENCES ; INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.1.2001
Zusatzinfo halftones
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 145 x 224 mm
Gewicht 569 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Nord- / Mittelamerika
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-811215-7 / 0198112157
ISBN-13 978-0-19-811215-0 / 9780198112150
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