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Papers by David Trotman
Journal of Caribbean History, 2020
Cuadernos Americanos: Nueva Epoca, 2008
Slavery & Abolition, Aug 1, 2007
... The channels for the successful transmission of the tradition became increasingly truncated a... more ... The channels for the successful transmission of the tradition became increasingly truncated and vulnerable due to the loss of autonomy and became increasingly under attack. A ma bu Sango yeye: A Century of Debilitation, 1870–1970. ...
Canadian journal of Latin American and Caribbean studies, 2007
Abstract This article examines the popularization of historical ideas and the cultivation of an h... more Abstract This article examines the popularization of historical ideas and the cultivation of an historical consciousness and imagination in post-independence Trinidad. It focuses on the way in which a particular version of the past—the Creole nationalist narrative—was constructed and popularized by a nationalist movement. It then examines the emergence, dissemination, and popularization of a contesting Afro-centric narrative in the post-independence period. The emphasis is less on the content of the narrative than on the method of dissemination. It argues that those narratives that were dependent only on the scribal method for transmission could not compete with those that utilized the oral mode. The article therefore focuses on the use of the local calypso tradition in the popularizing of historical narratives.
Caribbean quarterly, Sep 1, 1984
Chapter on "Imagining the Past at Great Zimbabwe"
Caribbean quarterly, Mar 1, 2012
Atlantic Studies, Oct 1, 2005
... V. Trotman * pages 177-198. ... For a bibliography up to 1985 but with numerous entries not r... more ... V. Trotman * pages 177-198. ... For a bibliography up to 1985 but with numerous entries not relevant to its subject, see Anderson, Caribbean Orientations. See also Anderson, Caribbean Immigrants. For a recent comprehensive ethnography, see Henry, The Caribbean Diaspora. ...
African Studies Review, Sep 1, 1976
The search for the African origins of contemporary socio-cultural forms found in black population... more The search for the African origins of contemporary socio-cultural forms found in black populations in the South Atlantic region is a well-established scholarly pursuit. Most scholars have argued that certain institutions and ideas brought from Africa were retained over time and ...
The American Historical Review, Apr 1, 1988
Trinidad's plantation system, David Trotman argues, exerted a profound effect on the rat... more Trinidad's plantation system, David Trotman argues, exerted a profound effect on the rate, pattern, and characteristics of criminal activity. Rather than merely trac-ing the historical, biological, or psycho-logical causes of crime, this book delin-eates the organic link ...
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, 2005
Caribbean Quarterly, 1984
The Colonial PeriodUsually when historians refer to public history they refer to their efforts at... more The Colonial PeriodUsually when historians refer to public history they refer to their efforts at seeing public monuments - statues, public buildings, bridges, etc. as texts that can be read, interpreted and mined for insights into the minds of their creators and their times. Invariably, of course, a ruling or governing elite commissions these public monuments and they are designed to impose a hegemonic vision of the world on the society. This has been so in imperial, metropolitan societies as well as in their colonial appendages. In metropolitan societies the statuary has reminded imperial citizens not only of the majesty of their "social superiors" but also of the grandeur to which they belonged as citizens of far-flung empires. In colonial societies public monuments have been used to testify to the power and superiority of the colonizer.2The urban landscapes of many former colonial societies are littered with a plethora of public monuments celebrating imperial victories...
Chapter on "Imagining the Past at Great Zimbabwe"
Journal of Caribbean History, 2020
Cuadernos Americanos: Nueva Epoca, 2008
Slavery & Abolition, Aug 1, 2007
... The channels for the successful transmission of the tradition became increasingly truncated a... more ... The channels for the successful transmission of the tradition became increasingly truncated and vulnerable due to the loss of autonomy and became increasingly under attack. A ma bu Sango yeye: A Century of Debilitation, 1870–1970. ...
Canadian journal of Latin American and Caribbean studies, 2007
Abstract This article examines the popularization of historical ideas and the cultivation of an h... more Abstract This article examines the popularization of historical ideas and the cultivation of an historical consciousness and imagination in post-independence Trinidad. It focuses on the way in which a particular version of the past—the Creole nationalist narrative—was constructed and popularized by a nationalist movement. It then examines the emergence, dissemination, and popularization of a contesting Afro-centric narrative in the post-independence period. The emphasis is less on the content of the narrative than on the method of dissemination. It argues that those narratives that were dependent only on the scribal method for transmission could not compete with those that utilized the oral mode. The article therefore focuses on the use of the local calypso tradition in the popularizing of historical narratives.
Caribbean quarterly, Sep 1, 1984
Chapter on "Imagining the Past at Great Zimbabwe"
Caribbean quarterly, Mar 1, 2012
Atlantic Studies, Oct 1, 2005
... V. Trotman * pages 177-198. ... For a bibliography up to 1985 but with numerous entries not r... more ... V. Trotman * pages 177-198. ... For a bibliography up to 1985 but with numerous entries not relevant to its subject, see Anderson, Caribbean Orientations. See also Anderson, Caribbean Immigrants. For a recent comprehensive ethnography, see Henry, The Caribbean Diaspora. ...
African Studies Review, Sep 1, 1976
The search for the African origins of contemporary socio-cultural forms found in black population... more The search for the African origins of contemporary socio-cultural forms found in black populations in the South Atlantic region is a well-established scholarly pursuit. Most scholars have argued that certain institutions and ideas brought from Africa were retained over time and ...
The American Historical Review, Apr 1, 1988
Trinidad's plantation system, David Trotman argues, exerted a profound effect on the rat... more Trinidad's plantation system, David Trotman argues, exerted a profound effect on the rate, pattern, and characteristics of criminal activity. Rather than merely trac-ing the historical, biological, or psycho-logical causes of crime, this book delin-eates the organic link ...
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, 2005
Caribbean Quarterly, 1984
The Colonial PeriodUsually when historians refer to public history they refer to their efforts at... more The Colonial PeriodUsually when historians refer to public history they refer to their efforts at seeing public monuments - statues, public buildings, bridges, etc. as texts that can be read, interpreted and mined for insights into the minds of their creators and their times. Invariably, of course, a ruling or governing elite commissions these public monuments and they are designed to impose a hegemonic vision of the world on the society. This has been so in imperial, metropolitan societies as well as in their colonial appendages. In metropolitan societies the statuary has reminded imperial citizens not only of the majesty of their "social superiors" but also of the grandeur to which they belonged as citizens of far-flung empires. In colonial societies public monuments have been used to testify to the power and superiority of the colonizer.2The urban landscapes of many former colonial societies are littered with a plethora of public monuments celebrating imperial victories...
Chapter on "Imagining the Past at Great Zimbabwe"