Introduction
Victor C. Simpson and Alan Cobley
PART 1 HISTORY AND POLITICS
Different Trajectories of Freedom in the Anglophone Caribbean
Bridget Brereton
Tropical Libertarians: Anarchist Networks in the Circum-Caribbean, 1900–1915
Kirwin R. Shaffer
Eric Williams and the Labour Movement in Trinidad and Tobago
Jerome Teelucksingh
PART 2 LITERATURE AND PERFORMANCE
Dominica as Spiritual Landscape: Representations of Nature in Jean Rhys’s
Wide Sargasso Sea and Marie-Elena John’s
Unburnable
Ena Harris
Independence or Nationalism? A Fresh Look at Andreu Iglesias’s
Los derrotados
Victor C. Simpson
Performative Bondage: Caryl Phillips’s
Dancing in the Dark
Agnel Barron
Freedom of the Spirit and African Cultural Retentions: The Case of East Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Sandra Gift and Oba Kenyatta Omowale Kiteme
Myth and Ritual in Hosay, Ramleela and Carnival as Expressions of a Vibrant Caribbean Culture
Edith Pérez Sisto
PART 3 EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE
Museum Education as a Means to Promote Equal Opportunities
Hilde Neus Van Der Putten
“Can u assist me?” Help Needed with Students’ Use of Standard English
Kelvin Quintyne
Language, Identity and Freedom: A Creole Perspective
Hazel Simmons-Mcdonald
PART 4 GENDER
Exploring Representations of Gender and Sexuality in (Jamaican) Dancehall Popular Culture: The Search for a Method
Agostinho M.N. Pinnock
The Twenty-first-Century Caribbean Woman’s Question: What Is the Meaning of Freedom?
April Bernard
Contributors