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Journal Article
Repicturing the Picturesque
2021
Overview
European colonialism produced a corresponding archive of records of land and the enslaved, but one that is often incomplete or inadequate for use by the descendants of the enslaved, present day Caribbean people who wish to know how their family histories are tied to specific locations. This essay investigates how Jamaican writers Erna Brodber and Lorna Goodison use the genre of life writing in order to articulate a different relationship between the land and the people in the Caribbean than that depicted in colonial archives and in pre-emancipation paintings and drawings. In addition to the expected and yet always shocking written archives of the enslaved (registers of births, deaths, purchases, sales), visual representations such as maps, portraits of the enslaved and landscape paintings constitute another repository of information. Landscapes painted in the picturesque mode in the early nineteenth century framed the Caribbean in ways legible to European viewers. Picturesque images constitute an important archive of European views of the relationship between the enslaved and the land they worked, especially since, as Krista Thompson notes, no photographs of slavery in the British Caribbean exist
