Research Catalog

Title

'I want to disturb my neighbour' : lectures on slavery, emancipation and postcolonial Jamaica / Verene A. Shepherd.

Author

Shepherd, Verene

Publication

Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle, 2007.

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Description

xiii, 378 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This collection of 21 papers, selected from presentations internationally, reflect the depth and focus of Professor Shepherd's work over the past ten years, in the areas of conquest and colonialization, slavery and anti-slavery, post-slavery society, the project of decolonialization and the role of gender.

Uniform Title

Black women writers series

Subject

• Slavery > Caribbean Area > History
• Slavery > Jamaica > History
• Enslaved persons > History. > Caribbean Area
• Enslaved persons > History. > Jamaica
• Sex role > Jamaica
• Sex role > Caribbean Area
• Postcolonialism > Jamaica

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-371) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Knowledge production in the Caribbean: contemporary writings, the construction of 'Africa(n)' and the task of reconstruction - - Culture, creolization and marronage in the Caribbean: engaging with the writings of Rex Nettleford - - 'Sex in the tropics': women, gender and sexuality in the discourses of Asian labour migration to the British-Colonized Caribbean - - University of the West Indies and the decolonization project - - Roots and routes: intra- Caribbean trade links since the fifteenth century - - 'Groundings' with Tacky (Takyi) on history , heritage and activism - - Revolution and post-revolution: re-imaging and rethinking Haiti - - 'Petticoat rebellion'?: women and emancipation in colonial Jamaica - - 'Beside every successful man': the unsung activists of the 1831-1832 emancipation war in Jamaica - - Apprenticeship and indentureship: re/placing slavery in the British-Colonized Caribbean - historical trends - - 'My feet is [sic] my only carriage: gender and labour mobility in the post-slavery Caribbean - - The politics of migration: official policy towards Indians in Jamaica, 1845- 1945 - - 'Dear Mrs. Seacole': 'groundings' with Mary Seacole on slavery, gender and citizenship - - 'Up from slavery': the legacy of slavery and the project of emancipation in the commonwealth Caribbean - - Ranking game: discourses of belongings in Jamaican history - - Emancipation proclamation and August 1, 1838: text and context - - 'I want to disturb my neighbour' and 'The man at the door' in an age of individualism - - After the exhibition is gone: public memory is an age of historical amnesia - - Case for reparation: historical basis - - Challenging masculine myths: gender, history education and development in Jamaica - - From redemption song to remembrance walls: establishing war memorials for anti-slavery rebels.

ISBN

• 9789766372552
• 9766372551

OCLC

• 150543937
• SCSB-12546259

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library