Defining the Caymanian Identity

The Effects of Globalization, Economics, and Xenophobia on Caymanian Culture

AvChristopher A. Williams

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Defining the Caymanian Identity analyzes the factions and schisms surging throughout the multicultural, multi-ethnic, and polarized Cayman Islands to identify who or what is considered a Caymanian. In the modern world where Caymanian traditions have all but been eclipsed, or forgotten, often due to incoming, overpowering cultural sensibilities, it is a challenge to know where traditional Caymanian culture begins and modern Caymanian culture ends. With this idea in mind, Christopher A. Williams investigates the pervasive effects of globalization, multiculturalism, economics, and xenophobia on an authentic, if dying, indigenous Caymanian culture. This book introduces and expounds the provocative solution that the continued prosperity of the Cayman Islands and their so-called indigenous people may well depend on a synergistic moral link between Caymanianness and foreignness, between Caymanianness and modernity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-12-16
Mått:160 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt:531 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:274
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739190050

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

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Christopher Williams is assistant professor of history, English, and philosophy at the University College of the Cayman Islands.

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This book is an insightful study of identity formation, belonging, and indigeneity in the Cayman Islands, a small British dependency in the Caribbean, which has seen high levels of in-migration in recent decades. Its strength is its ‘insider’ perspective, and its presentation of testimonies from a very wide range of present-day natives and residents of these islands.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: Becoming Native CaymanianChapter Two: The More Things Change: The Stubborn Decline of Racialism During Immediate Post-EmancipationChapter Three: And Then There was Light: The Shaping Conditions of a Distinct National-Cultural Caymanian Identity and its Subsequent TraditionalismsChapter Four: Bringing Traditionalist Ideas and Conceptions to Bear on a Cultural Caymanian Identity Beset by Material HardshipChapter Five: The Sustenance of Caymanian Identity in Geographical Displacement: A Case Study ApproachChapter Six: Outgrowing the Surrogate Mother: Accounting for the Dramatic Shift in Caymanian Perceptions toward Jamaica and Jamaicans During the Federation EraChapter Seven: Proliferating Caymanianness: Accounting for the Factors that Lead to Division within Caymanian NationalityChapter Eight: Theory in Practice: Bringing the Legitimacy of Carnival and the Carnivalesque to Bear on Fractured Rhetorical Caymanian CultureConclusion: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?