Christienna D Fryar
Biographic Data
| ID | 704425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christienna D Fryar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christienna D |
| FAMILY NAME | Fryar |
| SIGNATURE | FRYAR C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
S ara C ollins . The Confessions of Frannie Langton
What should historical fiction do? Historians probably have a different answer to that question than lay readers. In recent decades, critics no longer automatically deride historical fiction as genre fiction, and the genre has begun to regain a literary reputation. But some historians still remain skeptical of it. To some extent, this wariness must be a professional hazard: with history as our day jobs, so to speak, we may hesitate to spend leisu…
Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism, by Christopher Taylor
Book review of Christopher Taylor, Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2018. ix + 320 pp
Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice
On the back of the Royal Historical Society's 2018 report on race and ethnicity, as well as ongoing discussions about 'decolonizing the syllabus', this is a conversation piece titled, 'Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice'. While 'decolonization' has been a key framework for historical research, it has assumed increasingly varied and nebulous meanings in teaching, where calls for 'decolonizing' are largely divorced from the actual end of em…
The Narrative of Ann Pratt: Life-Writing, Genre and Bureaucracy in a Postemancipation Scandal
The pamphlet Seven Months in the Kingston Lunatic Asylum, and What I Saw There detailed the experiences of Ann Pratt, a mixed-race Jamaican woman, during her months-long commitment to the facility. Seven Months portrayed the asylum as an institution failing its mission to care for some of the island’s most vulnerable inhabitants. A text produced in colonial Jamaica by a woman most likely born in enslavement, the pamphlet had an unusual career, mo…
The Work of Disappointment
This essay engages Yarimar Bonilla's Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015) by considering one of its key throughlines: the idea of disappointment as a motivator of politics, especially non-sovereign politics. Through an ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla critiques modern notions of national sovereignty as the only and inevitable product of decolonization. Provocative as it is, her a…
Ties That Bind: The Black Family in Post-slavery Jamaica, 1834-1882
Three years ago in a review essay, Trevor Burnard noted that the social history of the Caribbean remained a somewhat underdeveloped field. There is much that we do not yet know about demographic change, social structure, and economic patterns across the Caribbean—the stuff of social history—compared to the historians of other regions. Thankfully, the University of the West Indies Press has been steadily publishing innovative studies that provide …
Imperfect Models: The Kingston Lunatic Asylum Scandal and the Problem of Postemancipation Imperialism
This article examines an imperial scandal concerning the treatment of patients in the lunatic asylum of Kingston, Jamaica, that highlighted the inadequacies of the imperial government. A significant moment in the development of colonial public health policy, this scandal also spoke to broader questions of postemancipation imperial governance. At the heart of the scandal was a debate about whether standards of treatment developed in Britain—symbol…
The Moral Politics of Cholera in Postemancipation Jamaica
This article situates the 1850–1851 cholera epidemic in the British colony of Jamaica within prevalent debates about the moral condition of Jamaicans of African descent, the economic crises of the 1840s and 1850s, and ultimately the effectiveness of emancipation. Through close readings of Scottish physician Gavin Milroy's reports, juxtaposed against correspondence between colonial officials and local public health authorities, this article argues…
Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice
On the back of the Royal Historical Society's 2018 report on race and ethnicity, as well as ongoing discussions about 'decolonizing the syllabus', this is a conversation piece titled, 'Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice'. While 'decolonization' has been a key framework for historical research, it has assumed increasingly varied and nebulous meanings in teaching, where calls for 'decolonizing' are largely divorced from the actual end of em…
The Moral Politics of Cholera in Postemancipation Jamaica
This article situates the 1850–1851 cholera epidemic in the British colony of Jamaica within prevalent debates about the moral condition of Jamaicans of African descent, the economic crises of the 1840s and 1850s, and ultimately the effectiveness of emancipation. Through close readings of Scottish physician Gavin Milroy's reports, juxtaposed against correspondence between colonial officials and local public health authorities, this article argues…
Imperfect Models: The Kingston Lunatic Asylum Scandal and the Problem of Postemancipation Imperialism
This article examines an imperial scandal concerning the treatment of patients in the lunatic asylum of Kingston, Jamaica, that highlighted the inadequacies of the imperial government. A significant moment in the development of colonial public health policy, this scandal also spoke to broader questions of postemancipation imperial governance. At the heart of the scandal was a debate about whether standards of treatment developed in Britain—symbol…
The Work of Disappointment
This essay engages Yarimar Bonilla's Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015) by considering one of its key throughlines: the idea of disappointment as a motivator of politics, especially non-sovereign politics. Through an ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla critiques modern notions of national sovereignty as the only and inevitable product of decolonization. Provocative as it is, her a…
Ties That Bind: The Black Family in Post-slavery Jamaica, 1834-1882
Three years ago in a review essay, Trevor Burnard noted that the social history of the Caribbean remained a somewhat underdeveloped field. There is much that we do not yet know about demographic change, social structure, and economic patterns across the Caribbean—the stuff of social history—compared to the historians of other regions. Thankfully, the University of the West Indies Press has been steadily publishing innovative studies that provide …
The Narrative of Ann Pratt: Life-Writing, Genre and Bureaucracy in a Postemancipation Scandal
The pamphlet Seven Months in the Kingston Lunatic Asylum, and What I Saw There detailed the experiences of Ann Pratt, a mixed-race Jamaican woman, during her months-long commitment to the facility. Seven Months portrayed the asylum as an institution failing its mission to care for some of the island’s most vulnerable inhabitants. A text produced in colonial Jamaica by a woman most likely born in enslavement, the pamphlet had an unusual career, mo…
Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice
On the back of the Royal Historical Society's 2018 report on race and ethnicity, as well as ongoing discussions about 'decolonizing the syllabus', this is a conversation piece titled, 'Decolonizing History: Enquiry and Practice'. While 'decolonization' has been a key framework for historical research, it has assumed increasingly varied and nebulous meanings in teaching, where calls for 'decolonizing' are largely divorced from the actual end of em…
S ara C ollins . The Confessions of Frannie Langton
What should historical fiction do? Historians probably have a different answer to that question than lay readers. In recent decades, critics no longer automatically deride historical fiction as genre fiction, and the genre has begun to regain a literary reputation. But some historians still remain skeptical of it. To some extent, this wariness must be a professional hazard: with history as our day jobs, so to speak, we may hesitate to spend leisu…
Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism, by Christopher Taylor
Book review of Christopher Taylor, Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2018. ix + 320 pp
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Empire (3 works)