Archaeology of Colonisation: From Aesthetics to Biopolitics Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Frank Worrell mesmerised spectators with

Frank Worrell mesmerised spectators with his stylish play

Every year in June

As the nation geared up for total war

” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown

AUTHOR OF THE FORTHRIGHT WOMAN

Archaeology of Colonisation: From Aesthetics to Biopolitics Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Frank Worrell mesmerised spectators withThis book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance. Using Foucault's philosophical archaeology as method, this work argues that the European formation of indigeneity and blackness was based on aesthetically casting Aboriginal and African peoples in the Caribbean as monsters yet