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Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean

Francio Guadeloupe

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780520254886

Published to California Scholarship Online: May 2012

DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520254886.001.0001

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So Many Men, so Many Histories

So Many Men, so Many Histories

The History that Matters to the Islanders

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(p.11) Chapter 1 So Many Men, so Many Histories
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Chanting Down the New Jerusalem
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Francio Guadeloupe

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University of California Press
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520254886.003.0002

This chapter explains how the islanders are not interested in creating a collective history or asserting primacy to a certain history as the basis of belonging. History functions as a commodity that allows tourism workers to play the role of historically oppressed people, who carry no grudges and even openly welcome visitors who have benefited from the exploitation of their grandparents.

Keywords:   collective history, belonging, history, tourism workers, exploitation

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