Robertson examines how people in St. Lucia percieve emancipation. She argues that the circumstances of St. Lucia's colonial past made ideals of freedom pervasive and emancipation intensely complicated, with consequences that are felt in contemporary St. Lucian identity and in strongly African cultural foundations and continuities.;
Zora Neale Hurston's 1938 book of Caribbean folklore, 'Tell My Horse,' indicates her cross-cultural interest in identity politics, Caribbean history and religion
