Book Reviews : Inward Hunger—The Education of a Prime Minister. By ERIC WILLIAMS (London, André Deutsch, 1969). 352 pp. 42s. The East Indian Indenture in Trinidad. By JUDITH ANN WELLER (Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Institute of Caribbean Studies, 1968). xxii + 172 pp. $4

Race ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-533
Author(s):  
Ivar Oxaal
1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 237-255
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV

-Raymond T. Smith, John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South-America from the year 1772 to the year 1777. Edited by Richard Price and Sally Price. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. xcvii + 708 pp.-Richard Price, John Gabriel Stedman, Reize naar Surinamen, door den Capitein John Gabriel Stedman, met platen en kaarten, naar het Engelsch, Jos Fontaine (ed.) Zutphen: De Walburg Pers, 1987. 176 pp.-Robert L. Paquette, David Eltis, Economic growth and the ending of the transatlantic slave trade. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. xiii + 418 pp.-Robert L. Paquette, Robin Blackburn, The overthrow of colonial slavery, 1776-1848. London and New York: Verso, 1988. 560 pp.-Jack P. Greene, Selwyn H.H. Carrington, The British West Indies during the American revolution. The Netherlands: Foris Publications, 1988. 222 pp.-H. Hoetink, Angel G. Quintero Rivera, Patricios y plebeyos: burgueses, hacendados, artesanos y obreros. Las relaciones de clase en el Puerto Rico de cambio de siglo. Rio Piedras, P.R. Ediciones Huracán, 1988. 332 pp.


2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonora Esposito

The Caribbean twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago entered a new era on 24 May 2010 by electing its first woman Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Breaking out of the country’s rigid bipolar political mold, the East Indian Persad-Bissessar won a landslide victory as the leader of the People’s Partnership, a new coalition party that comprised both East Indian and African political forces and movements. Adopting a Discourse-Historical Approach, this study sets to analyze how Persad-Bissessar discursively constructed her claim to leadership in the election speeches of the 2010 We Will Rise Campaign. Both the processes of bonding with her electorate and demontage of her opponent Patrick Manning are achieved by Persad-Bissessar with careful linguistic choices, encompassing the use of the ritual picong satire and strategic switching to Trinidadian English Creole. This article investigates complexities, struggles and contradictions of the Trinbagonian political scene by integrating a detailed analysis of political discourse and the investigation of the social and political environment within which discourse as social practice is embedded.


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