Colonial inventions : landscape, power, and representation in nineteenth-century Trinidad / by Amar Wahab.
Published / Created:
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
Physical Description:
xv, 284 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.
Contents:
Toward a (post)colonial discourse on landscape -- Rehearsing Caribbean colonial landscapes -- Inventing "Trinidad" in the European imagination: from Columbus to Richard Bridgens -- Views from the underside? Michel Jean Cazabon's nineteenth-century landscape painting of "Trinidad" (1851-1880) -- Return to order: Disciplinary gestures in Charles Kingsley's "At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies" (1871) -- Unfinished cartographies.
Subject Terms:
Slavery -- Trinidad and Tobago -- History -- 19th century. | Black people -- Trinidad and Tobago. | Black people in art. | Indentured servants -- Trinidad and Tobago -- In art. | East Indians -- Trinidad and Tobago. | East Indians in art. | Trinidad and Tobago -- In art. | Slavery in art. | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- In art. | Black people. | Blacks in art. | British colonies. | East Indians. | East Indians in art. | Indentured servants. | Slavery. | Slavery in art. | America. | Trinidad and Tobago. | Landschaft -- Sklaverei -- Trinidad -- Geschichte 19. Jh. | Sklaverei -- Landschaft -- Trinidad -- Geschichte 19. Jh. | Landschaft. | Trinidad.