After the Postcolonial Caribbean : Memory, Imagination, Hope.
Meeks, Brian.
After the Postcolonial Caribbean : Memory, Imagination, Hope. - 1 online resource (196 pages) - Black Critique . - Black Critique .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- About the Cover -- Introduction: A Bend in History's River -- Part I: Remembering -- 1. Reminiscing in Black, Gold, and Green -- 2. Reading the Seventies in a Different "Stylie": Dub, Poetry, and the Urgency of Message -- 3. The Politics of Edna Manley: A Preliminary Appraisal -- 4. Lamming's Politics and the Radical Caribbean -- 5. Jamaican Roads Not Taken, or a Big "What If" in Stuart Hall's Life -- Part II: Imagining -- 6. Beyond Neoliberalism's Dead End: Thinking Caribbean Futures through Stuart Hall and The Kilburn Manifesto -- 7. Hegemony and the Trumpian Moment -- 8. Roadblock on Hope Road: The End of Imagination and Capital's Late Afternoon -- 9. On the Question of Optimism in Troubled Times: Revolution, Tragedy, and Possibility in Caribbean History -- Index.
Examines the history, and possible futures, of radical politics in the postcolonial Caribbean.
9780745347929
Electronic books.
After the Postcolonial Caribbean : Memory, Imagination, Hope. - 1 online resource (196 pages) - Black Critique . - Black Critique .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- About the Cover -- Introduction: A Bend in History's River -- Part I: Remembering -- 1. Reminiscing in Black, Gold, and Green -- 2. Reading the Seventies in a Different "Stylie": Dub, Poetry, and the Urgency of Message -- 3. The Politics of Edna Manley: A Preliminary Appraisal -- 4. Lamming's Politics and the Radical Caribbean -- 5. Jamaican Roads Not Taken, or a Big "What If" in Stuart Hall's Life -- Part II: Imagining -- 6. Beyond Neoliberalism's Dead End: Thinking Caribbean Futures through Stuart Hall and The Kilburn Manifesto -- 7. Hegemony and the Trumpian Moment -- 8. Roadblock on Hope Road: The End of Imagination and Capital's Late Afternoon -- 9. On the Question of Optimism in Troubled Times: Revolution, Tragedy, and Possibility in Caribbean History -- Index.
Examines the history, and possible futures, of radical politics in the postcolonial Caribbean.
9780745347929
Electronic books.