Beyond coloniality : citizenship and freedom in the Caribbean intellectual tradition / Aaron Kamugisha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamugisha, Aaron, author.

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism--Caribbean Area--History--21st century.

Postcolonialism.

Decolonization--Caribbean Area--History--21st century.

Decolonization.

Caribbean literature (English)--21st century--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature (English).

Politics and government.

History.

Intellectual life.

Caribbean Area--Intellectual life--History--21st century.

Caribbean Area.

Caribbean Area--Politics and government--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

xi, 264 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality

Part I. The Coloniality of the Present

2. The Coloniality of Citizenship in the Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean

3. Creole Discourse and Racism in the Caribbean

Part II. The Caribbean Beyond

4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom

5. The Caribbean Beyond: Sylvia Wynter's Black Experience of New World Coloniality and the Human after Western Man

Conclusion: A Caribbean Sympathy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and index.

ISBN:

9780253036261

0253036267

OCLC:

1088905480