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Patchwork: Essays & Interviews on Caribbean Visual Culture
By Jacqueline Bishop
The patchwork is an apt metaphor for the region, not only because of its colourfulness and the making of something whole out of fragments, but as an attempt to make coherence out of disorder. The seeking of coherence was the exact process of putting together this book and foregrounds the process of Caribbean societies forging identity and identities out of plural, and at times conflicting and contested, groups that came to call the region home.
This book is a collection of essays and interviews with contemporary Caribbean writers, scholars and curators. It includes work by trained visual and vernacular artists, presenting the works of decorative and ornamental needle workers. The book speaks to both indigenous traditions of the region as well as more globalized contemporary expressions.
