Diasporic memories: Community, individuality, and creativity - A life stories perspective

Oral History Review

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-187

  Chamberlain, Mary ^a  

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Author keywords

Caribbean; Diasporic; Memory; Shame; Slavery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRAL AMERICA; COMMUNITY CARE; CREATIVITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LEGAL ASPECT; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL WELFARE;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CARIBBEAN REGION; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; CREATIVENESS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MEMORY; RACE RELATIONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 73449131589     PISSN: 00940798     EISSN: 15338592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ohr/ohp039     Document Type: Article

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1. Luisa Passerini, ntroduction to Memory and Totalitarianism, ed. Luisa Passerini (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2005), 2
2. Sidney Mintz and Richard Price, An Anthropological Approach to the African-American Past: A Caribbean Perspective (Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1976)
3. Elsa Goveia, Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965)
4. See Mary Chamberlain, Family Love in the Caribbean: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2006)
5. Clyde Jemmott, "Nationalism and the Negro," The West Indian American, October 15, 1927 (New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture), 4
6. See Robin Cohen, Global Diasporas: An Introduction (London: UCL Press, 1997) for a comprehensive discussion of diaspora
7. See, for instance, Chris Monaco, Moses Levy of Florida: Jewish Utopian and Antebellum Reformer (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Moses Levy was a prominent Jewish slaveholder in the West Indies and Florida and an ardent abolitionist
8. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic, Modernity and Double Consciousness (London: Verso, 1993)
9. W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (New York: Signet, 1995), 45
10. see also Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic; Mary Chamberlain, "George Lamming, "in West Indian Intellectuals in the Metropolis, ed. Bill Schwarz (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), 175-95
11. George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin (Harlow: Longman Caribbean, 1986), 50
12. Karen F. Olwig, Caribbean Journeys: An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007)
13. Elaine Bauer and Paul Thompson, Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic (Kingston: Ian Randle, 2006)
14. Mary Chamberlain, Narratives of Exile and Return (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2004), 53
15. BF 069/2/1/2/15. Names have been anonymized. Interviews (unless indicated otherwise) from H. Goulbourne and Mary Chamberlain, Living arrangements, family structure and social change of Caribbeans in Britain financed by the Economic and Social Research Council (Award Number L315253009). Approximately fi fty families, across three generations, were interviewed between 1995 and 1998 by Dr. Dwaine Plaza, Research Assistant on the project, except those in Trinidad which were carried out by Mary Chamberlain. References are to recording and transcript pages. Recordings and transcripts lodged in Qualidata Archive, University of Essex
16. Dionne Brand, "Photograph," in Sans Souci and other stories (Toronto: Firebrand Books, 1989), 75
17. See Marie-Françoise Chanfrault-Duchet, "Textualisation of the self and gender identity in the life-story," in Feminism and Autobiography. Texts, Theories, Methods, eds. Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury, and Penny Summerfield (London: Routledge, 2000), 61-75
18. Kathryn Anderson and Dana C. Jack "Learning to Listen: Interview Techniques and Analyses," in Women's Words. The Feminist Practice of Oral History, eds. Sherna B. Gluck and Daphne Patai (New York: Routledge, 1991), 11-26
19. Erna Brodber, Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home (London: New Beacon, 1980), 12
20. Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother (London: Vintage Books, 1996), 227
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23. See, for instance, Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, Cristina Szanton Blanc, Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Post-Colonial Predicaments and Deterritorialized Nation States (Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach, 1994)
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