The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean present : Operation Urgent Memory / Shalini Puri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puri, Shalini, author.

Series:

New Caribbean studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Civilization.

Grenada--History--1974-1983.

Grenada.

History.

Grenada--Civilization.

Collective memory--Grenada.

Physical Description:

xiv, 341 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory is the first scholarly book from the humanities on the subject of the Grenada Revolution and the US intervention. It is simultaneously a critique, tribute, and memorial. It argues that in both its making and its fall, the 1979-1983 Revolution was a transnational event that deeply impacted politics and culture across the Caribbean and its diaspora during its life and in the decades since its fall. Drawing together studies of landscape, memorials, literature, music, painting, photographs, film and TV, cartoons, memorabilia traded on e-bay, interviews, everyday life, and government, journalistic, and scholarly accounts, the book assembles and analyzes an archive of divergent memories. In an analysis that is relevant to all micro-states, the book reflects on how Grenada's small size shapes memory, political and poetic practice, and efforts at reconciliation."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Wave 31

Fault-lines 65

Fort 89

Continent 98

Stone 128

Volcano 151

Archipelago 173

Hurricane 206

Prison 225

Sand 251

Straits 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230120327

0230120326

OCLC:

885312921