We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk about a Little Culture
Decolonising Essays 1967-1984
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This seminal collection of critical and historical essays by Sylvia Wynter brilliantly explores a wide range of subjects, including literature, critical discourse, race, class, and gender in relation to cultural production in the Caribbean. Individual essays focus on topics such as Bob Marley's anticolonial song, Jamaican folk arts, and the Spanish epoch of Jamaican history with a pioneering study of Bernardo de Balbuena. Across this range of topics there is a coherent thread of argument in favor of Marxist-humanist discourse that seeks to draw on all strands of Caribbean ethnic heritage while calling for the recognition and overturning of all inequalities between Caribbean peoples in the economic and cultural sphere.
The essays and articles collected here set out to decolonise the nature of the discourse that legitimated the imperial order of Western Europe. The wide-ranging contributions include literary and critical reviews, an exploration of C.L.R. James's writings on cricket, an analysis of Bob Marley and the counter-cosmogony of the Rastafari, and a pioneering examination of the Spanish epoch of Jamaican history via the life and work of Bernardo de Balbuena (1562-1627), epic poet and Abbot of Jamaica. Indeed, in the vein of James, a crucial imperative of Wynter's work has been to reconceptualise the history of the Caribbean as central to the formation not only of the New World Americas but also of the modern world system. Here, her original analyses are not forged from the hegemonic European perspective, but rather more inclusively always take into account the "gaze from below" of the indigenous (indio) and the slave/ex-slave Black (negro), who constitute "the underside of modernity".
