The Barbadian Cultural Renaissance: Iconographic Reconstruction and Search for Identity, Jemmott Ralph a.

It is divided into three parts, the first of which examines an earlier belief in a non-existent Barbadian culture, and discusses the legitimacy of a Barbadian Cultural Renaissance and a gradual awakening after the year 1966. Part Two examines the iconographic reconstruction of Barbadian culture, where the previously dominant Eurocentric values are partially replaced by an awareness of the cultural significance of the Black populace, and highlights the more significant contributions of certain cultural icons over a period of 50 years. Part Three challenges the direction in which some aspects of Barbadian culture are heading. To some degree it may reflect the writers own cultural ambivalence between the more liberal ingredients... and the older more conservative aspects... What matters ultimately is that the culture in the full sense speaks to those things that advance a genuinely humane enterprise and an enlightened progressivism consonant with human dignity.