Collective Memory, Identity and the Legacies of Slavery and Indenture

CONTENTS
Foreword Introduction

PART I: THE LEGACIES OF INDENTURE AND MIGRATION
1. The Legacy of Indian Indentureship in the Caribbean 1838-1920
2. Creative Industries: Our Legacies, Our Future
3. Shadowy Figures: Literary Representation of the Chinese in French-Caribbean Fiction

PART II: IDENTITY NEGOTIATIONS THROUGH MUSIC AND CUISINE
4. When the Music Soundin ‘Sweet’: Musical Instrument Construction, Performance Practice, and the Changing Aesthetics of Indian Trinidadian Tassa Drumming
5. Baithakgáná Semantics
6. Creolization and the Evolution of Indo-Trinidadian Cuisine

PART III: COLLECTIVE MEMORIES OF SLAVERY AND INDENTURE
7. Sitalpersad, a British Indian Interpreter in Colonial Suriname
8. Five Generations of a Surinamese Family 1873-2010: A Legacy
9. Emancipation and Arrival: How Emancipation Day and Indian Arrival Day have Shaped Ethnic Identities in Twenty-first Century Trinidad and Tobago