After the postcolonial Caribbean memory, imagination, hope / Brian Meeks.
| Author/creator | Meeks, Brian |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; Las Vegas : Pluto Press, 2023. |
| Description | ix, 214 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Memory, imagination, hope |
| Series | Black critique Black critique. ^A1355914 |
| Contents | A bend in history's power -- Reminiscing in black, gold, and green -- Reading the seventies in a different "stylie" : dub, poetry, and the urgency of message -- The politics of Edna Manley : a preliminary appraisal -- Lamming's politics and the radical Caribbean -- Jamaican roads not taken, or a big "what if" in Stuart Hall's life -- Beyond neoliberalism's dead end : thinking Caribbean futures through Stuart Hall and The Kilburn Manifesto -- Hegemony and the Trumpian moment -- Roadblock on Hope Road : the end of imagination and capital's late afternoon -- On the question of optimism in troubled times : revolution, tragedy, and possibility in Caribbean history. |
| Abstract | "Across the Anglophone Caribbean, the great expectations of independence were never met. From Black Power and Jamaican Democratic Socialism to the Grenada Revolution, the radical currents that once animated the region recede into memory. More than half a century later, the likelihood of radical change appears vanishingly small on the horizon. But what were the twists and turns in the postcolonial journey that brought us here? And is there hope yet for the Caribbean to advance towards more just, democratic and empowering futures? After the Postcolonial Caribbean is structured in two parts. In 'Remembering', Brian Meeks employs an autobiographical form, drawing on his own memories and experiences of the radical politics and culture of the Caribbean in the decades following the end of colonialism. In 'Imagining' he takes inspiration from the likes of Edna Manley, George Lamming and Stuart Hall in reaching towards a new theoretical framework that might help forge new currents of intellectual and political resistance. Meeks concludes by making the case for reestablishing optimism as a necessary cornerstone for any reemergent progressive movement."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780745347929 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022435770 |
| ISBN | 0745347908 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9780745347905 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |