Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 270
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-78348-220-7 • Hardback • October 2016 • $163.00 • (£127.00)
978-1-78348-221-4 • Paperback • October 2016 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
978-1-78348-222-1 • eBook • October 2016 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
Roshini Kempadoo is a scholar, photographer and media artist at the School of Media, Arts and Design at the University of Westminster, London.
Introduction: Notebook of a Return / 1. Creolising Archives: A Relational and Contiguous Practice / 2. Caribbean Spaces: Seeing Her Presence, Exploring Her Past / 3. Controlling Her Image / 4. ‘See We Here’: Determining the Caribbean Self / 5. Visualising Change / Conclusion: Endnote / Index
Roshini Kempadoo invites us into a complex space that offers new ways of reading photographs, documents, and letters focusing on the Caribbean. This book is wonderfully researched. An expert reader of the visual, Kempadoo is the voice that is able to view the archive as a performative space that is revisited time and again. An insightful and important contribution to the study of identity, race, memory, and global studies.
— Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography and Imaging, New York University - Tisch School of the Arts
Creole in the Archive persuasively traces the role of the archive in construing and constructing images of colonial spaces across history, while simultaneously identifying the archive itself as a temporally and spatially creole construct. Offering a nuanced analysis of the ‘archive’, this book takes us beyond the hegemonic readings that typically dominate material-cultural discussions of the archive. Richly informed by Kempadoo’s own experiences as a researcher and an artist, Creole in the Archive will provide fertile ground for reflection within both the academy and the creative industries.
— Anthony Mandal, Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University
This book harnesses the process of creolisation in a sensitive engagement with the notion of the archive. Kempadoo considers formal and informal repositories, offline and online realms, historical records and contemporary acts of art making – as ways of seeing. She launches the reader into an expanded visual matrix, from which it is possible to discern more complex Caribbean subjectivities.
— Marsha Pearce, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Creole in the Archive represents a timely and important contribution to Caribbean Studies, and to postcolonial scholarship more generally. This innovative and interdisciplinary work challenges some of our most deeply held assumptions about the nature and the function of the archive and will be of great interest to academics, practitioners and students alike.
— Anindya Raychaudhuri, Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews
Explores contemporary memory work, past historical material and associated locations to reframe the imagery of the Caribbean figure.
Uses a Derridean frame of reference to develop a new concept of the archive.
Charts the theoretical trajectories of creole, creolisation and créolité with reference to writers including Bernabé, Vergès, Brathwaite, Shepard, Condé and Khan.
Blends historical visual media with contemporary Caribbean art.
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