Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation: A critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean

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Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation Editorial page Title page Copyright page Dedication page Table of contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Foreword Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Swept by the Kamlamania 1.2 Caribbean political discourse: A blind spot 1.3 CDS in the postcolonial Caribbean: The master’s tools? 1.4 CDS as postcolonial critique: A way forward 1.5 Structure of the book 1.6 A short note on terminology Chapter 2. Ethnicity, nationalism and the political process in Trinidad and Tobago 2.1 A short socio-political history 2.1.1 Afro-Indian relations in colonial Trinidad 2.1.2 Politics and Afro-Indian relations in the post-independence era 2.1.3 The 2010 election: Kamla Persad-Bissessar and The People’s Partnership 2.2 Ethnicity, identity and nationalism 2.2.1 “The African and the Asian will not mix”?: Between plurality and creolization 2.2.2 Callaloo or pelau?: The discursive construction of the postcolonial nation Chapter 3. Theory and methods for a multimodal critique of political discourse 3.1 Contemporary political discourse: A case for visuality and critique 3.2 The discourse-historical approach 3.3 Social semiotics as critique 3.4 Multimodal CDS in action 3.4.1 Textual and visual data 3.4.2 Operationalizating concepts in multimodal analysis Chapter 4. The leader 4.1 Strategies of positive self-presentation 4.1.1 The mother rhetoric in the 2007 campaign 4.1.2 From “mother” to “woman” in the 2010 campaign 4.1.3 Kamla and the women in partnership 4.1.4 Kamla as the angel of Trinidad and Tobago 4.2 Strategies of negative other-presentation 4.2.1 “Manout” and the discursive construction of the out-group 4.2.2 “The Emperor has no clothes” 4.2.3 Patrick Manning, Eric Williams and the “Inferiority complex” 4.2.4 Trinidadian Creole as a strategy of demontage and bonding Chapter 5. The party 5.1 Main strategies of nomination and predication 5.1.1 The coalition as a symbol of postcolonial modernity 5.1.2 The People’s Partnership as a “United Force for Change” 5.1.3 From party politics to coalition politics 5.1.4 Showing the backstage: The “United Force for Change” ad campaign 5.2 Building the multi-ethnic coalition 5.2.1 Deixis and strategic vagueness 5.2.2 The People’s Partnership as the big river 5.2.3 Visual strategies of ethnic inclusivity Chapter 6. The nation 6.1 Building the national “in-group”: Evolving narratives 6.1.1 The 1960s: “One Mother” 6.1.2 The 2010s: “Diversity is Strength” 6.2 Building a common political past: Teaching history as action 6.2.1 “Brothers of the Boat”: Colonial memory and inclusiveness 6.2.2 Beyond slavery: Counter-narratives of resistance and empowerment 6.3 Proud achievements and historic moments: Narrating history as myth 6.4 Exploring patterns of interdiscursivity and intertextuality 6.4.1 Religious discourse as national discourse 6.4.2 Recontextualization as adaptation: “I Have a Dream” 6.4.3 Recontextualization as relocation: Building a common national body 6.4.4 Recontextualization as appropriation: “Forged from the Love of Liberty” 6.4.5 From “Yes We Can” to “We Will Rise”: Celebrating the multi-ethnic nation Chapter 7. Concluding remarks 7.1 Summary of findings: Unpacking the Kamlamania secret 7.2 Broadening horizons: Towards a postcolonial CDS 7.3 Some final thoughts 7.4 Epilogue: Kamla 2010–2015 References Index