After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope Meeks Brian
After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope Meeks Brian Examines the history, and possible futures, of radical politics in the postcolonial CaribbeanAcross the Anglophone Caribbean,…
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After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope Meeks Brian
Examines the history, and possible futures, of radical politics in the postcolonial CaribbeanAcross the Anglophone Caribbean, the great expectations of independence were never met. More than half a century later, the likelihood of radical change appears vanishingly small on the horizon. From Black Power and Jamaican Democratic Socialism to the Grenada Revolution, the radical currents that once animated the region recede into memory.
And is there hope yet for the Caribbean to advance towards more just, democratic, and empowering futures?After the Postcolonial Caribbean is structured into two parts. But what were the twists and turns in the postcolonial journey that brought us here? 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