Samenvatting
Centuries of intense migrations have deeply impacted expressions of cultural heritage on the ABC islands: Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. This volume queries how cultural heritage on these Dutch Caribbean islands relates to the work of nation-building and nation-branding. How does the imagining of a shared political “we” relate to images deliberately produced to market these islands to a world of capital? The contributing authors in this volume address this leading question in their essays that describe and analyze the expressions of the ABC islands. In doing so, they compare and contrast nation-building and branding on the ABC islands to similar practices taking place in the wider Caribbean. The expressions of cultural heritage discussed range from the importance of sports, music, literature, and visual arts to those related to the political economy of tourism, the work of museums, the question of reparations, and the politics and policies affecting the Caribbean Diasporas in the North Atlantic. This volume adds to the understanding of the dynamics of nation, culture, and economy in the Caribbean.
Inhoudsopgave
Contents, Acknowledgements, Introduction Alex van Stipriaan, Luc Alofs and Francio Guadeloupe, Chapter 1. Michiel Baud and Rosemarijn Hoefte, Nation-Building and Nation-Branding in the Caribbean: Comparative Reflections on National Imaginaries and Their Consequences, Chapter 2. Jorge Ridderstaat, Tourism Development and Nation-Building: The Case of Aruba, Chapter 3. Rose Mary Allen, Gert Oostindie, and Valika Smeulders, Slavery and Debates about National Identity and Nation-Branding, Chapter 4. Alex van Stipriaan, Representations and Reparations of Slavery in the Caribbean, Chapter 5. Tibisay Sankatsing Nava, Raymundo Dijkhoff, Ashleigh John Morris, Joseph Sony Jean, Jorge Ulloa Hung, Pancho Geerman, and Corinne L. Hofman, Aruban Archaeological Heritage: Nation-Building and Nation-Branding in a Caribbean Context, Chapter 6. Rob Perrée and Alex van Stipriaan, Four Islands: Contemporary Art in Suriname, Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao, Chapter 7. Joyce Pereira and Luc Alofs Chapter, Papiamento: An Official Caribbean Creole Language from Legal Repression to Full Recognition, Chapter 8. Sara Florian, Nation-Building and Nation-Branding: Aruban, Bonairean, and Curaçaoan Writers between the Caribbean and the Netherlands, Chapter 9. Charissa Granger, Radical Imagining in Dutch Caribbean Music, Chapter 10. Roy McCree, Sport Heritage, Nation-Building and Nation-Branding in the Anglophone and Dutch Caribbean, Chapter 11. Francio Guadeloupe, Exploring the Nation through the Lens of Baseball: A Popular Culture Perspective on National Belonging in the Dutch Caribbean, Chapter 12. Stacey Mac Donald and Malcom Ferdinand Chapter, Facing the Ecological Crisis in the Caribbean, Chapter 13. Margo Groenewoud, Digital Humanities, Social Justice and the Pluricultural Realities of Dutch Caribbean Heritage Archives, Chapter 14. Francio Guadeloupe and Gert Oostindie, Caribbean Diasporas, Metropolitan Policies, and Cultural Heritage, Epilogue Alissandra Cummins, Notes, Bibliography, Illustration Credits, The Authors, Index
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