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Art and emancipation in Jamaica : Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds
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Art and emancipation in Jamaica : Isaac Mendes Belisario and his worlds

T. J. Barringer

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Catalog of an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., Sept. 27-Dec. 30, 2007.

Contents

Britain, Jamaica, and empire in the Era of Emancipation / Catherine Hall
Work, culture, and Creolization: slavery and emancipation in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Jamaica / Verene A. Shepherd
Picturesque prospects and the labor of the enslaved / Tim Barringer
Mapping a new Kingston: Belisario's sketches of character / Gillian Forrester
Characters from the spirit: Afro-Jamaican music and art / Robert Farris Thompson
Sketches of memory: visual encounters with Africa in Jamaican culture / Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz
More than met the eye: African-Jamaican festivities in the time of Belisario / Kenneth Bilby
Anglophone musical culture in Jamaica / Stephen Banfield
Customs of an unruly race: the political context of Jamaican Jewry, 1670-1831 / Holly Snyder
Belisario's "Kingston cries" and the refinement of Jewish identity in the late 1830s / Kay Dian Kriz
Afterword: the legacies of Anglo-Caribbean culture
a diasporic perspective / Stuart Hall

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