Popular Geopolitical Metaphors We Live(d) by: Remarks on Western Hegemonic Discourses and Caribbean Colonial History
Micah Corum
Abstract
This paper discusses the existence of metaphors that are linked to popular discourses of imperialism, colonialism, and plunder in the Caribbean. Strategies of discursive erasure were implemented in the Caribbean as a result of the insurrectional response to colonialism on the part of Indigenous peoples, Afro-Caribbean peoples, and poor European indentured servants. The maroonage and revolts that occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries are examples of actions that were motivated by a distinct way of thinking, namely a conceptual system of resistance, which was in conflict with the Western program of capital accumulation.
Keywords: Metaphor theory, Caribbean, hegemon