the caribbean area: slavery and creolization, education vs. indigenous cultures
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The Caribbean Area:
Slavery and Creolization,
Education vs. Indigenous Cultures
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What are the themes we have covered so far?
South Asia
Racial Composition in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Religion: Indian gods: Krishna & Ganesh; Religion in Iran
Gender and Bride-Bride game
West & South Africa
In Nigeria (Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba);
Liberia (Bassa vs. Congo)
Folk belief (Sangoma, dibia man, mask)
Love of eating sweets, bullying at school Education
Common Themes – Children’s Experience of
•Civil Wars (displacement – child soldier)
•Racial, Class, Language and Cultural Differences
•City (Mumbai, Rio, Jos, Nsukka, Johannesburg) vs. Country
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1.What color is Friday’s skin? (Friday from Robinson Crusoe) Not yellow, because the aborigines were mostly eliminated there. The few Caribs left were mixed with the black slaves, who get associated with Cannibalism.
2. Can Friday speak? Does Caliban only know how to curse? (The Tempest: Prospero, Miranda and Caliban)
(The Middle Passage) Slavery
Colonial Education Creolization (in people and
language) Caribbean Disapora Cultures
Image source
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Recent News in the Caribbean Area
Haiti: Earthquake 2010, 1, 12
Rachel Wheeler– a 12-year-old that raised 250,000 US dollars to build 27 homes in Haiti (source)
famous for its legends of pirates (source 《金銀島》 Treasure Island; Pirates of the Caribbean )
drug dealing
Tourism, cruising in the area
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Outline The Caribbean Area:
Definitions & History of colonization The Texts We Read
Creolization: Definitions English language & of people Race Relations Conflicts and Displacement;
Caribbean Poetry and Music at a Glance: Caribbean poetry; Derek Walcott & dub poetry Popular culture: Different ways; Calypso, (Raggae & Rap)
Our Course: Thematic Continuity, Geographic Expansion
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Definition (1): the Caribbean –3 groups
1. the Bahamas to the North East of Cuba
the Greater Antilles
the
Lesser
Antilles
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Brazil
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Definition (2): the CaribbeanDon’t forget the triangular trade!!! “discovered” by Columbus in late 15th c., Spanish colonization, followed by the British, French and Dutch.names:
West Indies (Anglophone) –a misnomer (also East Indians); the Antilles (Francophone) the Caribbean as a term encompassing both
Composed of immigrants only: diaspora (離散族群 )
the aboriginal communities [Amerindians-- Arawaks, Caribs, etc.] exterminated; Immigrants from Africa, Asia and Europe.
Columbus & Arawak-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B1C-v0BzTE
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Image of the Caribbean
Jan van de Straet’s engraving “America”--the new world as a woman
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History of Colonization in the Caribbean Area
1492-96 -- Columbus’s “discovery” of the West Indies
16th-18th centuries --Colonial period: also a period of wars among colonial nations and pirates,
and conflicts between the white masters, black slaves and mulatto.
Rebellion (1) –the Maroons* e.g. Abeng – (from a West Africa); used primarily as a signaling device; served as a vital means of communication when the Maroons were at war with the British (e.g.) e.g. in Sugar Cane Alley
The Middle Passage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo79PHVI-ck&feature=fvsr
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Ways of rebellion (2):petit marronage (小走私 ) in francophone islands
pretend sickness, steal, or even poison their masters.
with music, dance, religion (voodon), or simply their different ways of living;
examples: the school children’s tales of zombies; the songs the laborers sing—at the field, after Madouze dies-- in Sugar Cane Alley;
open rebellion
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History of Colonization in the Caribbean Area
1808 --1838 Britain and USA abolished slave trade; complete abolition of slavery in British colonies
1845 East Indian indentured laborers in Trinidad; Chinese indenture in French colonies (e.g. Wide Sargasso Sea)
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History of Colonization in the Caribbean Area
1919-1939 seen as Slums of the Empire.
• Negritude (Aimé Césaire);
• Back to Africa movement (started in the 19th century; supported later by MARCUS GARVEY) Rastafari movement
Madouze’s account in SGA
riots & strikes in 1935-
1938 and afterwards
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History of Colonization in the Caribbean Area
Since the 50’sColonization in reverse: West Indian migration to England restrictions imposed to Canada, etc.
Independence movements: 1958-62 -- The Federation of the West Indies
independence 1962 -- Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago;1966 Barbados and Guyana;
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American Imperialism in the Caribbean Area (Cf. Bob Marley site http://www.bobmarley.com/)
Economic the area becomes the tourists’ heaven and a cheap labor factory (capital, technology and management shipped to the area to use the labor power without leaving the profits there.)
Cultural domination –
music styles – the emergence of reggae (e.g. from rhythm & blue to Ska to reggae )
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History of Colonization in the Caribbean Area
Neo-Colonialism of the U.S.A. military intervention (e.g. "Caribbean Basin Initative"– bribing Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean to support the armed confrontation in Grenada and the war in El Salvador.
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The Caribbean Textsand Their Locations
The Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) –1840’s (Martinique), (Grandbois) Dominica, Jamaica (near Spanish town)
Abeng (1984) by Michelle Cliff -- Jamaica 1950’s
Sugar Cane Alley (1983) –Martinique 1930’s
Olive Senior "Bright Thursdays" -- Jamaica
Annie John (1985) –Antigua 1950’s
"Children of the Sea" (from Krik, Krak! 1955) -- Port-au-Prince Haiti 1960’s – 90’s
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Creolization (1): Dictionary Definition
A. language: mixture of languages, esp. in Southern US and the Caribbean area.
B. People
1). Orignal meaning: Native, local,”pure”;
2). Native-born whites; (e.g. Antoinette in WSS)
3). Hybrid (mixed-blood)
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Definition (2): Creolization in the Caribbean
Language – the mixture of English and African tribal languages into some special kinds of native languages (Patois, such as French Patois, Jamaican Patois). E
• e.g. Beijan: The English used in Barbados-- closest to standard English (e.g. 1); Jamaican creole,
• "postcreole continuum“*(後新生語連續體 )-- parallels the social hierarchy to some degrees (--those speaking in creole are looked down upon).
• Postcolonial usage of creole dub poetry—the empire strikes back
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Color System in the Caribbean Society
People -- Europeans born in the Caribbean, mulatto
“Dying to raise their color all of them” (199) (e.g. “Bright Thursday”)
The color triangle: white
brown
dark
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Race Relations: multiple division
Post-emancipation period – conflicts between different races (e.g. the English vs. the French), between plantation owners and small farmers, ex-slaved and contract laborers between the newly rich and the declining aristocrats.Discriminated: mulatto and creole.
In the contemporary Caribbean area and diaspora: the Bajan vs. the Jamaican, all against Haitian, etc.
WSS
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Consequences of creolization
racial conflicts;
split sense of identity – in between Europe and Africa (e.g. Black Skin, White Mask –Frantz Fanon from Martinique)
diverse and dynamic culture (Walcott on its music, painting and language)
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The people’s resistance to colonialism: some examples of Caribbean Poetry – Ref.
Caribbean poetry (introd.) Derek Walcott (e.g.) –combination of Western culture and creolized culture and island landscape
• “I happen to have been born in an English and a Creole place, and love both languages. …”
• “ I who am poisoned with the blood of both,Where shall I turn, divided to the vein?”
"A Far Cry From Africa“ Derek Walcott, 1957
As I worked, watching the rotting waves comepast the bow that scissor the sea like milk,I swear to you all, by my mother's milk,by the stars that shall fly from tonight's furnace,that I loved them, my children, my wife, my home;I loved them as poets love the poetrythat kills them, as drowned sailors the sea.
You ever look up from some lonely beachand see a far schooner? Well, when I writethis poem, each phrase go be soaked in salt;I go draw and knot every line as tightas ropes in this rigging; in simple speechmy common language go be the wind,my pages the sails of the schooner Flight.But let me tell you how this business begin.(from “The Schooner Flight”
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The people’s resistance to colonialism: some examples of Caribbean Poetry
Dub poetry: forerunner of hip-hop an extension of reggae culture (“new raggae”) a form of performance poetry having its roots in popular Jamaican culture, and more particularly in reggae and Rastafarianism. The movement has served to bring poetry back to the people
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Dub poetry
openness to pop culture and esp. to music (reggae and calypso); appeal of public performance; acceptance of social responsibility --poetry has a “function” (poetry vs fiction as a middle-class genre)amateur poetic practice in the WI (e.g. Jamaican creole )
e.g. Edward Braithwaite,
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Kamau Brathwaite“Wings of a Dove”
About a Rasta Man “Brother Man the Rastaman, beard full of lichens地衣brain full of licewatched the mice ”After smoking his pipe of his gangja, he speaks of his people in ‘Bablylon town’
“So beat dem drumsdem, spread
dem wings dem,watch dem fly
dem, soar demhigh dem,
clear in the glory of the Lord.
Watch dem ship demcome to town dem
full o' silk demfull o' food dem
an' dem 'plane demcome to groun' dem
full o' flash demfull o' cash dem
silk dem food demshoe dem wine dem
that dem drink deman' consume dem
praisin' the glory of the Lord.
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Kamau Brathwaite“Wings of a Dove”So beat dem burn
dem, learndem that dem
got dem nothin'but dem
bright bright baublesthat will burst dem
when the flame demfrom on high dem
raze an' roar deman' de poor dem
rise an' rage demin de glory of the Lord.
Bob Marley, a Rasta
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Mikey Smith “Black and White” Different implications of “black”Michael Smith;
Image source
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“Colonization in Reverse” (1) Louise Bennett
What a joyful news, Miss Mattie;
Ah feel like me heart gwine burs--
Jamaica people colonizin
Englan in reverse
By de hundred, by de tousan
From country an from town,
By de ship-load, by the plane-load,
Jamaica is Englan boun. (source)
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“Colonization in Reverse” (2)
Dem a pout out a Jamaica;Everybody future planIs fi get a big-time jobAn settle in de motherlan
What a islan! What a people!Man an woman, ole and youngJussa pack dem bag an baggageAn tun history upside dung! --Louis Bennett (e.g.)
(source)
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Mutabaruka
“dis poem”
starts with middle passage, but extends to all kinds of racism all over the world.
http://www.mutabaruka.com/lyrics.htm
Music video of the 2006 song Della and Mutabaruka
Note: nyahbingi drumming
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The people’s resistance to colonialism: some examples of Popular Culture
Calypso: originated in the songs of African slaves who worked in the plantation fields of Trinidad. Forbidden to talk to each other, they used calypso to communicate feelings and information.
e.g. Work songs in Sugar Cane Alley.
e.g. "Dan is the Man".
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"Dan is the Man"
In education, he is taught to be “a block-headed mule”
with his world filled with nonsensical nursery rimes.
How about the education in the film Sugar Cane Alley?
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The Caribbean Texts –and their Themes
Sugar Cane Alley –a boy’s experience of 1930’s labor exploitation; Western education vs. local cultures; cultural identitiesThe Wide Sargasso Sea –1830’s (abolishment of slavery) poor creole women (girls) vs. a black girl, TiaAbeng by Michelle Cliff – another creole girl whose great grandfather, Judge Savage, burned his hundred slaves on the eve of their emancipation. * Claire and ZoeOlive Senior's "Bright Thursdays" –a creole girl’s experience and fear of white culture and open spaceAnnie John –a black girl’s growth to reject of her mother/culture. "Children of the Sea" –refugees from Haiti; two voices
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Thematic Continuation in our courseArea Cultures, race & gender (neo-)olonization diasporaIndian
Subcon-tinent
Religions gender (purdah, sati, marriage), caste system, partition children and (lack of) education; sisters, War
--UK. Departure
--Hollywood
--South Africa, the Caribbean, and to US
West & SouthAfrica
1) War and children
2) Apartheid, politics & power land and body, religion, gender, language, children and education
1) Congo in Liberia
2) Boer war Afrikaaner vs. Bantu (Writing vs. silence)
Exile & Return
The Carib-bean
Diaspora + refugee; Creolization language, race & gender children & education; sisters, mother-daughter
Slavery & Contract laborers; US.
“Back” to Africa or UK
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The Caribbean area and the Caribbean diaspora
Canada The U.S.
““Children of the Sea”Children of the Sea”; Fugees; Fugees
Annie John M. Cliff, B. Marley
Wide Sargasso Sea Sugar Cane Alley
Derek Walcott
England France India
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References
The Evolution of Afro-Caribbean Music <http://www.cariwave.com/Evolution_Afro_Caribbean_M
usic.htm>
Caribbean Poetry: Barbados <http://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG-snh/Caribbean/Barbados/index.html >