Archiving Caribbean Identity

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.

Introduction; Part I. Tangible and Intangible Formats: Chapter 1. Soca and collective memory; Savannah Grass as an archive of Carnival; Chapter 2. Jamaican twitter as a repository for documenting memory and social resistance: Listening to the "articulate minority"; Chapter 3. Singing Our Caribbean Identity: Programming the UWI, Mona Festival of the Nine Lessons with Carols; Chapter 4. Archives "cast in stone": Memorials as memory; Chapter 5. Landscape as record: Archiving the Antigua Recreation Ground; Chapter 6. Concert Dance in Barbados as Archive: Dancing the national narratives; Chapter 7. Remembering an art exhibit: The Face of Jamaica, 1963-1964; Chapter 8. Traditional and new record sources in geointerpretive methods for reconstructing biophysical history: Whither Withywood; Part II. Collections Through a Caribbean Lens: Chapter 9. Resistance in/and the Pre-Emancipation Archives; Chapter 10. Postcolonial philately as memory and history: Stamping a new identity for Trinidad and Tobago; Chapter 11. Recasting Jamaican sculptor Ronald Moody (1900 - 1984): An archival homecoming; Chapter 12. St. Lucian memory and identity through the eyes of John Robert Lee; Chapter 13. Crop Over and Carnival in the archives of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago; Chapter 14. Ecclesiastical Records as Sources of Social History; The Anglican Church of Trinidad and Tobago; Chapter 15. Erasure and retention in Jamaica’s official memory; The case of the disappearing telegrams; Index.