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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Autore principale: Meeks, Brian (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]
Serie:Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
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Sommario:
  • 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?