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Book SynopsisThis volume suggests that for Caribbean people, migration is simply one of many ways to pursue a better future. It show not only that the nation-state is an exhausted form of political organization, but that in the Caribbean the ideological reach of the nation-state has always been tenuous.
Trade ReviewCarnegie has taken up his pen, and his fine scholarly intelligence, against the nation-state, its lofty pretensions and its low crimes, its interferences as well as its betrayals. Challenging in its provocations and substantive in its arguments, this book is a welcome ontribution to studies of nationalism and the Caribbean. - David Scott, Columbia University
Table of Contentspt. I. Struggling with and against Race and Nation.
Ch. 1. The Dundus and the Nation.
Ch. 2. A Cultural Mapping of the Nation
pt. II. Nation and Transnation.
Ch. 3. Border Visions.
Ch. 4. Transterritorial Lives
pt. III. Prefiguring the Postnational.
Ch. 5. Caliban's Early Pioneering Journeys.
Ch. 6. A Politics of Transterritorial Solidarity: The Garvey Movement and Imperialism
Conclusion: World Community Imagined
