Colonial inventions: landscape, power and representation in nineteenth-century Trinidad
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| adam_text | Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Toward a (Post)Colonial Discourse on Landscape
The Tales of Mountains
-
A Blind Rehearsal
........................................
j
Theoretical Perspective: Positioning
(Post)Colonial
Discourse
.............5
Landscape in (Pos^Colonial Discourse
...............................................
11
Postcolonial Un/Re-mappings of the Caribbean
...............................14
Managing Race and Gender: Orientalist and Africanist Discourse
......21
Ways of Looking
..................................................................................24
Travel Writing and Landscape Painting
...............,...............................25
Reading Strategies
...............................................................................29
De/Re-Historicizing Nineteenth-century Trinidad
........................31
Chapter Summaries
..............................................................................36
Chapter One
.............................................................................................39
Rehearsing Caribbean Colonial Landscapes
Introduction
..........................................................................................39
Inventing Invitation: Emptiness, Cannibalism and Savagery
...............41
Inventing Tropical Nature
....................................................................45
Re-Centering the Caribbean: The Rise of Plantations
..........................51
The Colonial Picturesque
.....................................................................57
Tracking Colonial Ambivalence: Transculturation, Agency
and
Reconsolidation
.............................................................................61
Chapter Two
............................................................................................69
Inventing Trinidad in the European Imagination:
From Colornbus to Richard
Bridgens
A Euro-Navigational Birth: Columbus s Discovery of Paradise
......70
Re-tracing Paradise: The Search for El Dorado
...................................73
Imagining A Ghostly Paradise
..........................................................76
The
Cédula
and the Reinvention of a Cultivable Paradise
...................80
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Contents
Trinidad s New Prosperity : Early Nineteenth-Century British
Representations
....................................................................................82
Richard Bridgens s Sketches of West India Scenery (circa.
1825).......86
Conclusion
...........................................................................................99
Chapter Three
........................................................................................103
Views from the Underside? Michel Jean Cazabon s Nineteenth-
Century Landscape Painting of Trinidad
(1851-1880)
Introduction
........................................................................................103
Biographical Note on Michel JeanCazabon
(1813-1888).................105
Social Context: An Explosive Amalgam of Changes
.....................107
Michel Jean Cazabon s Painterly Discourse
......................................113
A Review of MacLean s and Cudjoe s Readings
..............................114
A Reading Strategy: David Dabydeen s Hogarth s Blacks
................116
Reading Cazabon
...............................................................................121
The Post-emancipation Planter s Picturesque: A Nostalgic Gesture?
121
A Governor s landscape: The Harris Collection
................................124
Su/Pro/specting
..................................................................................124
Cazabon s Civilizing
Townscapes:
Port of Spain as Tropical City
... 134
The Threat
..........................................................................................138
A Return to Labour: Picturesque Coolies
.......................................141
Cazabon s Women
.............................................................................145
The Uneasiness of Pleasure
................................................................151
Conclusion
.........................................................................................154
Chapter Four
.........................................................................................159
Return to Order: Disciplinary Gestures in Charles Kingsley s
At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies
(1871)
Introduction
........................................................................................159
Travel Writing and Natural History in the Nineteenth Century
.........161
Obsessions of Race and Order in Mid-Nineteenth-Century
West Indian-English Discourse
..........................................................164
Kingsley s Narrative Structure
...........................................................172
Paradise Anew: Idealizations of the
Trinidadian
Natural Landscape
175
Reinventing Tropicality as Wild Nature
.....................................176
Reinventing Bounty: Prospecting the Picturesque
.............................180
Cultivating Nostalgia
........................................................................185
Re-Writing the Other: Re-Naturalizing Colonized Subjects
..............187
The Negro Character : The Retrograde of Paradise
.........................187
Coolie Scripts
-
A Return to Order
................................................196
Intimate Strangers: Contradistinctive Ordering of Others
.................206
Colonial
Inventions
ix
Engendered Scripts
............................................................................209
Conclusion
.........................................................................................212
Conclusion
..............................................................................................217
Unfinished Cartographies
Contrapuntal Cartographies
...............................................................220
Cataloging Colonial Space
.................................................................221
(Re)Scripting Colonized Subjects: Mapping
Vis-à-vis
......................225
Cartographic Disjunctures
..................................................................235
Coda
...................................................................................................237
Endnotes..................................................................................................239
Glossary
...................................................................................................261
Bibliography
............................................................................................267
Index
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