Table Contents


INTRO DUCTIO N ................................................................................ 1

INTERVIEW
Carmen Gillespie
 "Barbados, the land of pretense..."
 A Conversation with Diva Alexander de Beauvoir................... 7

ESSAYS
Krista A. Thompson
 Postcards to History: Tourist Representations
 and the Construction of Postcolonial Histories
 in the Anglophone Caribbean..................................................... 29

Peter Roberts
 Calenda: The Rise and Decline of a Cultural Image ................. 51

Cecily Jones
 "To Be Free is Very Sweet:" Racialised
 Representations of Slavery in Maria Nugent's
 Journal and Mary Prince's History ........................ .................. 69

Stephen Wilkinson
 Bad Black Men and Comical Chinese:
 Racial Stereotyping in Early Cuban Detective Fiction............. 89

Diane Accaria Zavala
 Taking Up the White Man's Burden: The Cinematic
 Representation of Manifest Destiny
 on Caribbean Shores in The Americano [1916]........................ 107