Beyond Coloniality - Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Aaron Kamugisha is the Ruth Simmons Professor in Africana Studies at Smith College. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality 2. The Contemporary as Absurdity: Denials of Citizenship in the Caribbean Postcolony 3. Caribbean Racial States 4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom 5. The Caribbean Beyond: Reading Sylvia Wynter on Freedom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Kamugisha
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780253036261
• ISBN: 978-0-253-03626-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education