TY - BOOK AU - Dunkley, Daive A., TI - Readings in Caribbean history and culture: breaking ground SN - 9780739168462 AV - F2169 .R43 2011 U1 - 972.9 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Lexington Books KW - Caribbean fiction KW - History and criticism KW - fast KW - Civilization KW - Colonial influence KW - Intellectual life KW - Caribbean Area KW - History KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Underground history : the persistent, un-heroic past / Raymond Ramcharitar -- Slave instruction by the Anglican church and the transformation of slavery / D.A. Dunkley -- Education for the future : shaking off the shackles of colonial times / Benita P. Thompson, S. Joel Warrican, and Coreen J. Leacock -- The life of Rev. George Wilson Bridges : the Jamaican experience / D.A. Dunkley -- Faithful delineations : Rev. George Wilson Bridges and photography / Russell Lord -- Vectors of venereal diseases : the perceived threat of prostitutes to military efficiency in Jamaica during World Wars I and II / Dalea Bean -- The manioc and the made-in-France : reconsidering creolization and commodity fetishism in Caribbean literature and theory / Michael Niblett -- West Indian plays and Caribbean masculinity : an assessment of Black Jacobins, Ti Jean and his brothers, pantomime, and moon on a rainbow shawl / Dennis Gill -- A "coolitudian" Caribbean text : the trajectory of renewal in David Dabydeen's Our lady of Demerara / Shivani Sivagurunathan -- Beyond the national : cross-culturalism in the art of the Jamaican painter Karl Parboosingh / Claudia Hucke -- Reggae as a rastafari poetic of disenchantment / Eldon V. Birthwright N2 - From the publisher. This book introduces the scholarly work of a number of new researchers working on the history and culture of the Caribbean. The eleven essays in this book cover topical themes and issues relating to those two subject areas, and specifically address the topics of colonialism, slavery, the Christianizing and moralizing missions, education, art history, and musical culture in the form of Reggae and its interactions with politics ER -