After the Postcolonial Caribbean

After the Postcolonial Caribbean Memory, Imagination, Hope - Black Critique

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Publisher's Synopsis

'A book of rare beauty' - Bill Schwarz, Professor at Queen Mary University of London

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, 'Remembering', and 'Imagining.' Author Brian Meeks employs a sometimes 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. And 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780745347905
Publisher: Pluto Press
Imprint: Pluto Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 972.9052
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: ix, 214
Weight: 248g
Height: 216mm
Width: 139mm
Spine width: 22mm