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This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on Richard Ligon's History of Barbados (1657) and Matthew 'Monk' Lewis' Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834), the study identifies specific myths and belief systems surrounding sugar and obeah as each of these came to stand for concepts of order and counterorder, and to figure the material and symbolic power of masters and slaves respectively. Rooting the imaginary in indigeus Caribbean myths, the study adopts the pre-Columbian origins of the imaginary ascribed by Wilson Harris to a cross cultural bridge or arc, and derives the mythic origins for the centrality of sugar in the imaginary's constitution from Kamau Brathwaite. The book's central organizing principle is an oppositional one, grounded on the order/counterorder binary model of the imaginary formulated by the philosopher-social theorist Cornelius Castoriadis. The study breaks new ground by reading Ligon's History and Lewis' Journal through the lens of the slaves' imaginaries of hidden kwledge. By redefining Lewis' subjectivity through his poem's most potent counterordering symbol, the demon-king, this book advances recent scholarly interest in Jamaica's legendary Three Fingered Jack.

Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Littérature caribéenne --- Obeah --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Influence coloniale. --- Dans la littérature.

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This book is an intellectual history of colonialism in Africa. The book focuses on ideas espoused by historians and creative writers on various aspects of colonial rule; the sources of the ideas; the vision of a post-colonial society that they created; and a critique of those ideas. Some essays focus on the works of notable scholars such as Ruth First and Ade Ajayi, while some chapters review themes of broad historiographical significance. In the first part of the book, eight scholars provide various examinations of the context to understand the colonial period, with emphasis on the historical linkages between the colonial era and the post-colonial, nationalism, pan-Africanism, new identities, and new agencies of control. The second part analyzes a number of key literary texts, drawing from the writings on apartheid in South Africa, the works of Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Micere Mugo, and V.Y. Mudimbe. In the third part, seven essays examine the ideas of Kenneth Dike, Betwell Ogot, Adu Boahen, Ruth First, Ade Ajayi, Cheikh Anta Diop, and Robert Mugabe. In all, the book moves us in new directions in the study of colonial Africa. It provides the basis to understand the views of leading African scholars, and offers fresh insights on the nature of colonial power and the African encounter with imperialism.

Colonies --- Imperialism --- Postcolonialism --- Impérialisme --- Postcolonialisme --- Historiography --- Historiographie --- Africa --- Afrique --- Colonization --- Colonial influence --- Colonisation --- Influence coloniale --- Historiography. --- Impérialisme --- Colonies britanniques

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Colonies --- Imperialism. --- East and West --- Impérialisme --- Orient et Occident --- Administration --- Psychological aspects. --- India --- Inde --- Civilization --- Colonial influence. --- Civilisation --- Influence coloniale

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Apartheid --- Colonies --- Democracy --- Despotism --- Apartheid --- Colonies --- Démocratie --- Despotisme --- Administration. --- Administration --- Africa --- Africa --- Afrique --- Afrique --- Colonial influence. --- Politics and government. --- Influence coloniale --- Politique et gouvernement

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During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumours that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. This text presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumour as historical sources in their own right, it assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction

Afrique de l'Est --- --Afrique centrale --- --Vampire --- --Vampirisme --- --Folklore --- --Influence coloniale --- --Sang --- --Vampires --- Folklore --- Blood --- Colonisation --- --Culture conflict. --- Storytelling --- Folklore. --- Africa, Central --- -Colonial influence --- Vampire --- Vampirisme --- Influence coloniale --- Sang --- Vampires --- Culture conflict. --- Afrique centrale --- -Blood --- Africa, East --- Colonial influence. --- Afrique orientale anglophone