Critical interventions in Caribbean politics and theory /
"These essays by Brian Meeks, a noted public intellectual in the Caribbean, reflect on Caribbean politics, particularly radical politics and ideologies in the postcolonial era. But his essays also explain the peculiarities of the contemporary neo-liberal period while searching for pathways beyo...
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2014]
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| Series: | Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Dreaming to Change the World
- Part One. Theoretical Forays
- The Frontline : Valentino, Pablo Moses, and Caribbean Organic Philosophy in the Seventies
- Reasoning with Caliban : A Critical Reading of Paget Henry's Caliban's Reason : Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
- Arguments within What's Left of the Left : James, Watson, and the Question of Method
- Michael Manley : Crossing the Contours of Charisma
- Part Two. Caribbean Questions
- Saving the Soul of the University
- Black Power Forty Years On
- Lloyd Best, "The People," and the Road Not Taken in 1970
- Cuba from Due South
- Grenada, Once Again : Revisiting the 1983 Crisis and Collapse of the Grenada Revolution
- Part Three. Jamaican Journeys
- Reinventing the Jamaican Political System
- Imagining the Future : Rethinking the Political in Jamaica
- Caribbean Radical Traditions and the Turn in the Jamaican Moment
- The Dudus Events in Jamaica and the Future of Caribbean Politics
- Jamaica on the Cusp of Fifty : Whither Nationalism and Sovereignty?