Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics

Informationen zum Autor Shalini Puri is an Associate Professor of English at the Univerisity of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality! Post-Nationalism! and Cultural Hybridity (Palgrave Macmillan 2004)! which won the Gordon and Sybil Lewis Award for best book on the Caribbean! and has edited Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (2003). She is currently completing a book entitled Volcanic Memory: The Grenada Revolution and the Futures of Revolutionary Practice. She is also working on a collaborative project entitled 'Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities'. Zusammenfassung This book is a pan-Caribbean and multidisciplinary study of the successes, failures, lessons, ongoing efforts, and prospects of Left politics from across the Caribbean in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book was published as a special issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Legacies Left Shalini Puri Recovered Histories 2. Resonances of Revolution: Grenada, Suriname, Guyana Rupert Roopnaraine 3. Are you a Bolshevik Or a Menshevik?: Mimicry, Alienation and Confusion in the Grenada Revolution Merle Collins Articles 4. The Cuban Revolution and the Caribbean: Civil Society, Culture, and International Relations Rafael Hernández 5. The Content of Socialism in Cuba Today Rafael Rojas 6. Post-Grenada, Post-Cuba, Postcolonial: Rethinking Revolutionary Discourse in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here Rafael Dalleo Maps Annalee Davis, Independent Visual Artist, Barbados 7. History, Decolonization and the Making of Revolution: Reflections on Writing the Popular History of the Jamaican Events of 1938 Anthony Bogues 8. Revolutionary Praxis in a Post-Neoliberal Era: Media Associations and the New Coalitional Politics in Venezuela Sujatha Fernandes 9. Technification, Sweetification, Treatyfication: Politics of the Caribbean-EU Economic Partnership Agreement Norman Girvan 10. Shifting the Ground Beneath Us: Social Reproduction, Grassroots Women’s Organizing and the 2005 Floods in Guyana D. Alissa Trotz 11. Guadeloupe is Ours: The Prefigurative Politics of the Mass Strike in the French Antilles Yarimar Bonilla 12. Legacies through the Lens: A Photo Essay Kathy Sloane ...

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• Authors: Shalini (University of Pittsburgh Puri
• Assisted by: Shalini Puri (Editor), Puri Shalini (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2010
• EAN: 9780415586894
• ISBN: 978-0-415-58689-4
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, North America, International Relations, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Regional Studies, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Regional / International studies, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Demonstrations & protest movements, Marxism & Communism