Abstract
In The Terror and the Time, Paula Morgan paints a picture of a nation brimming with pride in the opening chapter, "Lament of the Unhomely: Nationhood and Nonbelonging in the Work of V.S. Naipaul." She begins by meticulously describing the Commemorative Reprint of the Trinidad Guardian broadsheet of August 1962, which marked the 50th anniversary of independence in August 2012. Ten years later, this state-sanctioned and media-propagated performance of progress has held on. In 2022, dressed in the national colours—red, white, and black—the front page of The Daily Express marks 60 years of independence with a quote from Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley: "Feel the Pride," in bold. Above the headline, at the top of the newspaper, a flock of scarlet ibis spread across the page, flying all the way to the back of the newspaper, where another quote fills the page, this time from President Paula Mae Weeks: "Not a Moment to Lose."