Roshini Kempadoo invites us into a complex space that offers new ways of reading photographs, documents, and letters focusing on the Caribbean. This book is wonderfully researched. An expert reader of the visual, Kempadoo is the voice that is able to view the archive as a performative space that is revisited time and again. An insightful and important contribution to the study of identity, race, memory, and global studies. -- Deborah Willis, Professor of Photography and Imaging, New York University - Tisch School of the Arts Creole in the Archive persuasively traces the role of the archive in construing and constructing images of colonial spaces across history, while simultaneously identifying the archive itself as a temporally and spatially creole construct. Offering a nuanced analysis of the archive, this book takes us beyond the hegemonic readings that typically dominate material-cultural discussions of the archive. Richly informed by Kempadoos own experiences as a researcher and an artist, Creole in the Archive will provide fertile ground for reflection within both the academy and the creative industries. -- Anthony Mandal, Professor of Print and Digital Cultures, Cardiff University This book harnesses the process of creolisation in a sensitive engagement with the notion of the archive. Kempadoo considers formal and informal repositories, offline and online realms, historical records and contemporary acts of art making as ways of seeing. She launches the reader into an expanded visual matrix, from which it is possible to discern more complex Caribbean subjectivities. -- Marsha Pearce, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago Creole in the Archive persuasively traces the role of the archive in construing and constructing images of colonial spaces across history, while simultaneously identifying the archive itself as a temporally and spatially creole construct. Offering a nuanced analysis of the archive, this book takes us beyond the hegemonic readings that typically dominate material-cultural discussions of the archive. Richly informed by Kempadoos own experiences as a researcher and an artist, Creole in the Archive will provide fertile ground for reflection within both the academy and the creative industries. -- Anindya Raychaudhuri, Lecturer in English, University of St Andrews
