![]() Second, Restoring Empire explores how a climate of postwar imperial loss, decolonization, and architectural devastation, met with racial panic over newly visible Caribbean migrant populations in Britain. Using plantation restoration schemes as case studies, it dissects the practices of leading architects and institutions to show how their redesigns celebrate the power of the planter class while concealing the inherited structures of white minority rule that continue to shape postcolonial life. First, it analyzes the paradigms of colonial heritage restoration in the British Caribbean after WWII. The dissertation contributes to ongoing academic debates and public conversations about postcolonial reconciliation and heritage culture in three ways. By reading the narratives encrypted within built space, my project seeks to expand the approaches to postcolonial theory and the materials of literary study. In four chapters, I analyze architecture not just as the authored design of buildings but as the material organization of ideas and bodies in space and in particular, as archives of imperial narrative under perceived threat. I investigate the battlegrounds of cultural memory in material sites and architectural rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic, tracing the enduring powers of colonial planning, plantation aesthetics, and imperial nostalgia after WWII. Restoring Empire examines the relationship between architecture and violence in the legacies of British imperial rule and Caribbean plantation slavery to understand how racialized narratives of imperial power are constructed, spatialized, and materially inhabited for both private and public purposes. To this day, the plantation house remains-long-after emancipation, decolonization, and independence-one of the most celebrated, protected, and profitable structures in the Anglophone Caribbean. ![]() ![]() Princeton University Undergraduate Senior Theses, 1924-2021 Princeton University Doctoral Dissertations, 2011-2022 Princeton School of Public and International Affairs Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |