Caribbean Military Encounters

Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is the author of The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the award-winning The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity.  She has edited the volumes The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics, Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean, and with Debra Castillo, Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South.Lara Putnam is Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.  She is the author of Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age, The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960, and more than twenty journal articles and book chapters exploring labor migration, state racism, and the ways family and intimacy shape and are shaped by large-scale political and economic change.

• 1. Introduction: Subjects of Militarization; Lara Putnam and Shalini Puri.- 2. The Haitian Military as a Family Affair; Chelsey Kivland.- 3. British West Indian Memories of World War One: From Militarized Citizenship to Conscientious Objection; Richard Smith.- 4. Writing War and Empire: Poetry, Patriotism, and Public Claims-Making in the British Caribbean; Reena N. Goldthree.- 5. Occupied Thoroughfares: Haitian Women, Public Space, and the United States Occupation, 1915–1924; Grace L. Sanders Johnson.- 6. Base Impulses: Sex Work and the Military in Trinidadian Literature on World War Two; Shalini Puri.- 7. Killing Mapepe: Race, Sex and Colonial Politics in Cold War Vieques; Katherine T. McCaffrey and Bonnie Donohue.- 8. The Anguilla Revolution and Operation Sheepskin; Don E. Walicek.- 9. Pensions, Politics, and Soul Train: Anglo-Caribbean Diasporic Encounters with Guantánamo from theWar to the Special Period; Andrea Queeley.- 10. Cuban Narratives of War: Memories of Angola; Marisabel Almer.- 11. In “The Back Yard”: Experiencing War in the Greater Caribbean (A Photo-Essay); Jenny Matthews.- 12. A “Parvenu Predator”? When the Kill Zone and the Contact Zone Collide on the Isle of Spice; John C. Nelson.- 13. Mourning María Pantalones: Military Rule and the Politics of Race, Citizenship, and Nostalgia in Panama; Aims McGuinness.- 14. Half-Mast: Shifting Landscapes of Protest and Demilitarization in Vieques; Daniel Arbino.- 15. Public Secrets, Militarization, and the Cultivation of Doubt: Kingston 2010; Deborah A. Thomas.- 16. “Who Going to Guard These Guards?” The Treatment of the Military in the Calypso; Louis Regis.- 17. Music and Militarization: Soca, Space, and Security; Jocelyne Guilbault.- 18. Interdict: Scenes of Military Maritime Encounter in the Caribbean; April Shemak.- Index.