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Those working on the Caribbean have regularly adopted the figures and practices of translation in their work and also have devoted attention to the study of various translational processes. The presence of the Caribbean in translation studies remains, however, considerably less evident. This essay reflects on this missed cross-disciplinary rendezvous, foregrounding the importance of questions of cultural translation in a Caribbean context but at the same time considering the practical intralinguistic and interlinguistic underpinnings of any analysis of translation in the Caribbean (and of the Caribbean in translation). Drawing on a number of examples, ranging from the relief effort following the Haitian earthquake in 2010 to current CARIFORUM and CARICOM language policy, the discussion focuses on the region as a translation zone. The essay concludes that although the Caribbean may be usefully defined in terms of translation, it is also essential—in reciprocal terms—that wider discussion of translation should itself be actively "Caribbeanized."

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Afro-Caribbeana: An Introduction -- PART I. SLAVERY, FORCED LABOR AND THE PLANTATION SYSTEM -- 2. Slavery and the Afro-American Worl d -- 3. Slavery and Forced Labor in Puerto Rico -- 4. The History of a Puerto Rican Plantation -- PART II. CARIBBEAN PEASANTRIES -- 5. The Origins of Reconstituted Peasantries -- 6. The Historical Sociology of Jamaican Villages -- 7. The Origins of the Jamaican Market System -- 8. The Contemporary Jamaican Market System -- 9. Houses and Yards among Caribbean Peasantries -- PART III. CARIBBEAN NATIONHOOD -- 10. The Case of Haiti -- 11. Caribbean Nationhood: An Anthropological Perspective -- References -- Index

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