In:Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation: A critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean
Eleonora Esposito
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 93] 2021
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Published online: 27 May 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.93.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.93.toc
Table of contents
List of figuresIX
List of tablesXI
AcknowledgementsXIII
ForewordXV
Chapter 1.Introduction1
1.1Swept by the Kamlamania
1
1.2Caribbean political discourse: A blind spot5
1.3CDS in the postcolonial Caribbean: The master’s tools?8
1.4CDS as postcolonial critique: A way forward12
1.5Structure of the book19
1.6A short note on terminology21
Chapter 2.Ethnicity, nationalism and the political process in Trinidad and
Tobago23
2.1A short socio-political history23
2.2Ethnicity, identity and nationalism39
Chapter 3.Theory and methods for a multimodal critique of political discourse51
3.1Contemporary political discourse: A case for visuality and critique51
3.2The discourse-historical approach54
3.3Social semiotics as critique59
3.4Multimodal CDS in action62
Chapter 4.The leader79
4.1Strategies of positive self-presentation80
4.2Strategies of negative other-presentation99
Chapter 5.The party111
5.1Main strategies of nomination and predication112
5.2Building the multi-ethnic coalition126
Chapter 6.The nation137
6.1Building the national “in-group”: Evolving narratives138
6.2Building a common political past: Teaching history as action142
6.3Proud achievements and historic moments: Narrating history as myth147
6.4Patterns of interdiscursivity and intertextuality151
Chapter 7.Concluding remarks165
7.1Summary of findings165
7.2Towards a postcolonial CDS
170
7.3Some final thoughts175
7.4Epilogue: Kamla 2010–2015177
References183
Index207
