The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics

Herausgeber: Puri, Shalini

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a pan-Caribbean and multidisciplinary study of the successes, failures, lessons, ongoing efforts, and prospects of Left politics from across the Caribbean in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book was published as a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780415851244
• ISBN-10: 0415851246
• Artikelnr.: 37086192

Autorenporträt

Shalini Puri is an Associate Professor of English at the Univerisity of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity (Palgrave Macmillan 2004), which won the Gordon and Sybil Lewis Award for best book on the Caribbean, and has edited Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (2003). She is currently completing a book entitled Volcanic Memory: The Grenada Revolution and the Futures of Revolutionary Practice. She is also working on a collaborative project entitled 'Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities'.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Legacies Left Shalini Puri Recovered Histories 2.
Resonances of Revolution: Grenada, Suriname, Guyana Rupert Roopnaraine 3.
Are you a Bolshevik Or a Menshevik?: Mimicry, Alienation and Confusion in
the Grenada Revolution Merle Collins Articles 4. The Cuban Revolution and
the Caribbean: Civil Society, Culture, and International Relations Rafael
Hernández 5. The Content of Socialism in Cuba Today Rafael Rojas 6.
Post-Grenada, Post-Cuba, Postcolonial: Rethinking Revolutionary Discourse
in Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here Rafael Dalleo Maps Annalee
Davis, Independent Visual Artist, Barbados 7. History, Decolonization and
the Making of Revolution: Reflections on Writing the Popular History of the
Jamaican Events of 1938 Anthony Bogues 8. Revolutionary Praxis in a
Post-Neoliberal Era: Media Associations and the New Coalitional Politics in
Venezuela Sujatha Fernandes 9. Technification, Sweetification,
Treatyfication: Politics of the Caribbean-EU Economic Partnership Agreement
Norman Girvan 10. Shifting the Ground Beneath Us: Social Reproduction,
Grassroots Women's Organizing and the 2005 Floods in Guyana D. Alissa Trotz
11. Guadeloupe is Ours: The Prefigurative Politics of the Mass Strike in
the French Antilles Yarimar Bonilla 12. Legacies through the Lens: A Photo
Essay Kathy Sloane