Convict and the Colonel A Story of Colonialism and Resistance in the Caribbean

Name: Convict and the Colonel A Story of Colonialism and Resistance in the Caribbean
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ISBN: 9780822338239

ISBN-10: 0822338238

ISBN-13: 9780822338239

Edition: 2006

Authors: Richard Price

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The life of Medard Aribot - Martiniquan artist, convict, madman, legend - spans much of the twentieth century. Born in 1901 when slavery was a living memory, Medard was banished to the Devil's Island penal colony because, people say, he carved the "impertinent" bust of a colonel hoisted overhead by rioters during a 1925 election-day protest that ended in massacre. Today, the miniature gingerbread-style house he built on his return to Martinique has become a popular tourist attraction. Richard Price draws on long-term ethnography, archival documents, newspapers, old love letters, cinema, street-theater, and Caribbean fiction and poetry to explore how one generation's powerful historical…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Prologue



La Guerre de Diamant: 1925



"My Own Secret": The Life and Work of Medard Aribot



Remembering Medard, the Seine of History


Afterword


Notes


Source Notes


Illustration Credits


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Remerciements