Community construction, insularity and political identity in the English-speaking caribbean In a perspective designed to better understand the relationship between culture and politics, the author analyses the identity conflicts and power balances linked with the recurrent question of the construction of a political community in the English-speaking Caribbean. He examines the ideological elements and recent manifestations which update the ambivalence underlying the return to the island and the aspiration to pan-insular unity. All-Caribbean identity then appears as at best a matrix identity in permanent conflict with the competing insular localist identifies and affiliation with wider networks.Dans une perspective visant à mieux comprendre l...