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New Caribbean Thought

Author : Brian Meeks,Folke Lindahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9766401039

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New Caribbean Thought by Brian Meeks,Folke Lindahl Pdf

The dawn of the twenty-first century is an opportune time for the people of the Caribbean to take stock of the entire experience of the past forty years since the ending of direct colonialism. The authors believe it is now time to chart our future by carefully learning the lessons of the recent past. This interdisciplinary collection is the first to cross traditionally restrictive disciplinary barriers to address the tough questions that face the Caribbean today. What went wrong with the nationalist project? What, if any, are the realistic options for a more prosperous Caribbean? What are to be the roles of race, gender and class in a more global, less national world? Meeks and Lindahl include thought-provoking articles from twenty-one respected thinkers in diverse fields of study. The groundbreaking articles include critiques of existing bodies of thought, reformulations of general theoretical approaches, policy-oriented alternatives for future development, and more. This book is a must for statesmen, academics and students of political theory, social theory, Caribbean studies, comparative gender studies, post-colonial studies, Marxism and Caribbean history and anyone interested

Main Currents in Caribbean Thought

Author : Gordon K. Lewis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803280297

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Main Currents in Caribbean Thought probes deeply into the multicultural origins of Caribbean society, defining and tracing the evolution of the distinctive ideology that has arisen from the region’s unique historical mixture of peoples and beliefs. Among the topics that noted scholar Gordon K. Lewis covers are the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century beginnings of Caribbean thought, pro- and antislavery ideologies, the growth of Antillean nationalist and anticolonialist thought during the nineteenth century, and the development of the region’s characteristic secret religious cults from imported religions and European thought. Since its original publication in 1983, Main Currents in Caribbean Thought has remained one of the most ambitious works to date by a leader in modern Caribbean scholarship. By looking into the “Caribbean mind,” Lewis shows how European, African, and Asian ideas became creolized and Americanized, creating an entirely new ideology that continues to shape Caribbean thought and society today.

Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought

Author : Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel,Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui,Marisa Belausteguigoitia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137547903

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Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel,Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui,Marisa Belausteguigoitia Pdf

Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture. The central question motivating this work is how to think—epistemologically and pedagogically—about Latin American and Caribbean Studies as fields that have had different historical and institutional trajectories across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.

V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought

Author : William Ghosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192605313

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V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought by William Ghosh Pdf

V.S. Naipaul was one of the most influential and controversial writers of the twentieth century. His writings on colonialism and its aftermath, on migration and landscape, and on cultural loss and creativity, were both admired and criticised by a wide global audience. But what of his relationship to the region of his birth? Born in Trinidad, of Indian ancestry, and spending his professional life in England, Naipaul could be dismissive of his Caribbean background. He presented himself as a citizen of nowhere, or else, of the globalized, postcolonial world. However, this obscures his intense competition, fierce disagreements and close collaboration with other Caribbean intellectuals, both as a schoolchild in colonial Trinidad, and as an internationally celebrated author. V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought looks again at Naipaul's relationship with his birthplace. It shows that that the decolonising Caribbean was the crucible in which Naipaul's style and outlook were formed. Moreover, understanding Naipaul's place in the history of the region's politics and letters sheds new light on the work of celebrated contemporaries, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming and Maryse Condè, Elsa Goveia and Eric Williams, Sylvia Wynter and C.L.R. James. Literary criticism, intellectual biography, and an essay in the history of ideas, this book offers a new account of Caribbean thought in the decades after independence. It reveals a literary culture of creative vibrancy, in an era of unprecedented change.

Journeys in Caribbean Thought

Author : Paget Henry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783489374

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Journeys in Caribbean Thought by Paget Henry Pdf

For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy, C.L.R. James studies, critical theory, phenomenology, and Africana philosophy. In the case of Afro-Caribbean philosophy, he inaugurated a new philosophical school of inquiry. Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader outlines the trajectory of Henry’s scholarly career, beginning and ending with his most recent work on the distinctive character of Africana and Caribbean philosophy and political and intellectual leadership in his home of Antigua and Barbuda. In between, the book returns to Henry’s early consideration of the relationship of political economy to cultural flourishing or stagnation and how both should be studied, and to the problem with which Henry began his career, of peripheral development through a focus on Caribbean political economy and democratic socialism. Henry’s canonical work in Anglo-Caribbean thought draws upon a heavily creolized canon.

V. S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought

Author : William Ghosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198861102

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V. S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought by William Ghosh Pdf

Combining an intellectual biography of V.S. Naipaul with a history of cultural thought in the postcolonial Caribbean, this book gives a revisionary portrait of one of the great authors of the twentieth century, and tells an insightful and compelling story about the evolution of Caribbean ideas.

Reclaiming Development

Author : Kari Levitt
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789766371432

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"For over 20 years, the developing world has been adjusting to the agendas of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. In the 1990s, Structural Adjustment Programmes were repackaged and marketed as the coming of the golden age of globalisation, promising benefits to countries that adopt neo-liberal policies. Whether by convention or apparent absence of viable alternatives, Caribbean governments have been quick to implement policies of deregulation, liberalisation and privatisation. In this they have been supported by their intellectuals who have been equally quick in embracing globalisation and too ready to concede the end of national sovereignty. Kari Levitt argues that it is time to reclaim the right to development and the right of nations to engage in the international economy on their own terms. She advocates an international rule-based order which permits space for member countries to follow divergent paths to development according to their own philosophies, institutions, cultures and societal priorities. This book represents a historic sweep of Caribbean thought and personalities over the past 30 years drawn against the background of the changes in the international political economy. Whether in her collaboration with Lloyd Best on the Plantation Economy Model, her analyses of Debt and Adjustment, or her insistence on the right of sovereign nations to pursue their own development path, Kari Levitt remains consistent in her conviction that development, whether of individuals or nations, must be rooted in time and place and cannot be imposed by external prescription. "

Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought

Author : Gabrielle Jamela Hosein,Lisa Outar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137559371

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Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein,Lisa Outar Pdf

Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken, the authors turn instead to the terrain of gender negotiations among Caribbean men and women within and across racial, class, religious, and political affiliations. Addressing the specific conditions which emerged within the region and highlighting the cross-racial solidarities and the challenges to narratives of purity that have been constitutive of Indo-Caribbean feminist thought, this collection connects to the broader indentureship diaspora and what can be considered post-indentureship feminist thought. Through examinations of literature, activism, art, biography, scholarship and public sphere practices, the collection highlights the complexity and richness of Indo-Caribbean engagements with feminism and social justice.

Caribbean Cultural Thought

Author : Yanique Hume,Aaron Kamugisha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9766376204

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Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in the study of Caribbean societies. Written from the perspective of primarily Caribbean authors and renowned scholars of the region, it excavates classic texts in Caribbean Cultural Thought and places them in dialogue with contemporary interrogations and explorations of regional cultural politics and debates concerning identity and social change; colonialism; diaspora; aesthetics; religion and spirituality; gender and sexuality and nationalisms. The result is a reader that presents a distinctive Caribbean voice that emphasizes the long history of critical writings on culture and its intersection with political work in the Caribbean intellectual tradition from within the academy and beyond. Includes contributions from: Anténor Firmin  José Martí  Jean Price-Mars  Aimé Césaire  Suzanne Césaire  Frantz Fanon  Léon Damas  Martin Carter  Marcus Garvey  Percy Hintzen  Roberto Fernández Retamar  M. Jacqui Alexander  Nicholás Guillén  George Beckford  George Lamming  Richard Price  Lucille Mathurin-Mair  Sidney Mintz  Michel-Rolph Trouillot  Fernando Ortiz  Elsa Goveia  Kamau Brathwaite  Patricia Mohammed  Peter Wilson  David Scott  Antonio Benitez-Rojo  Lloyd Best  Rex Nettleford  Jacques Stephen Alexis  C.L.R. James  Wilson Harris  Gordon Rohlehr  Sylvia Wynter  Gloria Wekker  Audre Lorde  Kamala Kempadoo  Jamaica Kincaid  Margarite Fernández Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert  Patrick Bellegarde-Smith  Barry Chevannes  Aisha Khan  Dianne M. Stewart  Stuart Hall  Sean Lokaisingh-Meighoo  Erna Brodber  Shani Mootoo  Louise Bennett  Linton Kwesi Johnson  Derek Walcott

The Repeating Island

Author : Antonio Benitez-Rojo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822318652

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The Repeating Island by Antonio Benitez-Rojo Pdf

In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benítez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, García Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodríguez Juliá.

Caliban's Reason

Author : Paget Henry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135958800

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Paget introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy in this ground-breaking work. Since Afro-Caribbean thought is inherently hybrid in nature, he traces the roots of this discourse in traditional African thought and in the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe.

Beyond Coloniality

Author : Aaron Kamugisha
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253036278

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Beyond Coloniality by Aaron Kamugisha Pdf

Against the lethargy and despair of the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean experience, Aaron Kamugisha gives a powerful argument for advancing Caribbean radical thought as an answer to the conundrums of the present. Beyond Coloniality is an extended meditation on Caribbean thought and freedom at the beginning of the 21st century and a profound rejection of the postindependence social and political organization of the Anglophone Caribbean and its contentment with neocolonial arrangements of power. Kamugisha provides a dazzling reading of two towering figures of the Caribbean intellectual tradition, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, and their quest for human freedom beyond coloniality. Ultimately, he urges the Caribbean to recall and reconsider the radicalism of its most distinguished 20th-century thinkers in order to imagine a future beyond neocolonialism.

Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora

Author : Brian Meeks
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9789766372729

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Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora by Brian Meeks Pdf

"Stuart Hall, in whose honour this volume is compiled, has made significant contributions to contemporary social and political discourse. Constantly praised for his scholarly prescience, he was at the helm of the forging and definition of the discipline of Cultural Studies and nurtured an entire cadre of young intellectuals who continue to make remarkable contributions in the fields of Cultural Studies and Social Criticism. The essays that constitute this collection, all, in different ways, contend with Hall's methodology, his philosophy, as well as many other dimensions of his rich and textured intellectual career. More importantly however, they serve to reconnect his work to the social context of his island of birth, Jamaica, and the wider Caribbean. "

Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought

Author : Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel,Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui,Marisa Belausteguigoitia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137547903

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Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel,Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui,Marisa Belausteguigoitia Pdf

Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture. The central question motivating this work is how to think—epistemologically and pedagogically—about Latin American and Caribbean Studies as fields that have had different historical and institutional trajectories across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.

The Thought of New World

Author : Brian Meeks,Norman Girvan
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9766374015

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The Thought of New World by Brian Meeks,Norman Girvan Pdf

"In June 2005 the fourth Caribbean Reasonings Conference was held in Kingston, Jamaica, under the theme 'The thought of New World: the quest for decolonisation' ... hosted by Centre for Caribbean Thought."--Introd.