The West Indies Federation fell apart when the largest island Jamaica withdrew from the federation and declared itself independent in August 1962 followed by Trinidad and Tobago in August 1962. By the end of the 1960s, only a few Caribbean islands remained dependent territories. Postmodern theory provided pathways through which the postcolonial world responded to the old empire with a renewed sense of legitimacy. The postmodern and the postcolonial came together irrevocably in resisting imperialist culture and the systems and manifestations of modernism.