{"id":15670,"date":"2017-01-03T13:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15670"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:55","slug":"history-watch-podcast-historical-fiction-historical-reality-caribbean-plantation-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/history-watch-podcast-historical-fiction-historical-reality-caribbean-plantation-society\/","title":{"rendered":"History Watch Podcast: Historical Fiction and Historical Reality in a Caribbean Plantation Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n History Watch Podcast: Historical Fiction and Historical Reality in a Caribbean Plantation Society\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

In this episode of the History Watch podcast series, the Surinamese author Cynthia McLeod – who specializes in historical fiction – is in conversation with Professor Audra A. Diptee. They discuss the relationship between history and literature as well as the impact of colonialism on the Caribbean imagination. They also discuss the fascinating story of Elizabeth Sampson – a free black woman in eighteenth century Suriname who owned more than 10 plantations and over 1,000 slaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link:<\/strong> https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/historywatch\/historical-fiction-and-historical-reality-in-a-caribbean-planatation-society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credits:  <\/strong>This episode of the History Watch podcast series would not have been possible without the support of the Centre for Transcultural Analysis at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University (http:\/\/carleton.ca\/ctca\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the History Watch Podcast series:<\/strong>  The HW podcast series has a simple objective.  It aims to explore the ways in which our understandings of the past influence our perceptions of the present and how we imagine the future.  Invited guests speak about historical legacies, the politicization of history, and historical representations in popular culture among other things.  This podcast series is sponsored by the History Watch Project (http:\/\/historywatchproject.com\/<\/a>) and produced by Audra A. Diptee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this episode of the History Watch podcast series, the Surinamese author Cynthia McLeod – who specializes in historical fiction – is in conversation with Professor Audra A. Diptee. They discuss the relationship between history and literature as well as the impact of colonialism on the Caribbean imagination. They also discuss the fascinating story of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,180,1,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-history-watch","category-news","category-podcast"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15672,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions\/15672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}