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![]() As this essay goes to press, yet another pirate movie, Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean, hits the summer theaters and yet another Guardian article (June 14, 2003) warns that "Yardie-violence Spreads across the UK." The four Caribbean subcultures addressed here-pirates, Maroons, rude boys or yardies, and Rastafari-are heavily involved in the operations of nostalgia, perhaps because they are such vital embodiments of historical complicity and continuity. Figured as an object of desire, the past enshrined by nostalgia memorializes, in the shape of this figuration, complicities it seeks to contain or evade. Even as it laments an irrevocable past, nostalgia evokes and so revives the past, or a desirable version of that past, in the here and now. ![]() ![]() Nostalgia might be one way that we feel the effects of historical complicity and continuity. ![]()
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