As Caribbean postemancipation scholarship has deepened so richly in recent decades, writers have been able to shake major distortions such as the progressive teleologies of freedom that lurk as the very scaffolding of congratulatory imperial records. The full dynamism of repression directed at postslavery generations still demands attention, as does the difficult task of reconstructing communities’ and individuals’ responses to these serious restraints, efforts that sometimes yielded nothing. Especially given archival difficulties, Johnson’s exhortation to seek everyday understandings and actions, ineffable registers like love and fear, and internal community politics, including discord, continue to present high aims for scholars seeking to conceive and describe agency in such an archivally and politically difficult era.

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走进山里：在加勒比地区撰写解放后机构的挑战


近几十年来，随着加勒比地区解放后的学术研究不断深入，作家们已经能够摆脱重大的扭曲，例如潜伏在祝贺帝国记录的脚手架上的进步的自由目的论。针对后奴隶制世代的镇压的全部动力仍然需要关注，重建社区和个人对这些严重限制的反应的艰巨任务也需要关注，这些努力有时毫无成果。特别是考虑到档案方面的困难，约翰逊关于寻求日常理解和行动、爱与恐惧等不可言喻的记录以及包括不和谐在内的内部社区政治的劝告，继续为在这样一个档案和政治困难时代中寻求构想和描述能动性的学者提出了崇高的目标。