{"product_id":"strolling-in-the-ruins-9781478017042","title":"Strolling in the Ruins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStrolling in the Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e Faith Smith engages with a period in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean often overlooked as nondescript, quiet, and embarrassingly pro-imperial within the larger narrative of Jamaican and Trinidadian nationalism. Between the 1865 Morant Bay Rebellion and World War I, British imperialism was taken for granted among both elites and ordinary people, while nationalist discourses would not begin to shape political imagination in the West Indies for decades. Smith argues that this moment, far from being uneventful, disrupts the inevitability of nationhood in the mid-twentieth century and anticipates the Caribbean’s present-day relationship to global power. Smith assembles and analyzes a diverse set of texts, from Carnival songs, poems, and novels to newspapers, photographs, and gardens, to examine theoretical and literary-historiographic questions concerning time and temporality, empire and diaspora, immigration and indigeneity, gender and the poli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Introducing a Quiet Period  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Cuba, South Africa, and the Anglophone Caribbean’s New Imperial Century  33\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ruination’s Intimate Architecture  68\u003cbr\u003e 3. Photography’s “Typical Negro”  118\u003cbr\u003e 4. Plotting Inheritance  144\u003cbr\u003e Coda  186\u003cbr\u003e Notes  191\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  229\u003cbr\u003e Index  257","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409005060439,"sku":"9781478017042","price":70.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017042.jpg?v=1730505057","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/strolling-in-the-ruins-9781478017042","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}