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Eric Williams and the anticolonial tradition : the making of a diasporan intellectual / Maurice St. Pierre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- St. Pierre, Maurice, author.
- Series:
- New World studies.
- New world studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Williams, Eric Eustace, 1911-1981--Political and social views.
- Williams, Eric Eustace.
- Anti-imperialist movements--Trinidad and Tobago--History--20th century.
- Anti-imperialist movements.
- Historians--Trinidad and Tobago--Biography.
- Historians.
- Intellectuals--Trinidad and Tobago--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Prime ministers--Trinidad and Tobago--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- Trinidad and Tobago--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Trinidad and Tobago.
- Trinidad and Tobago--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Drawing on extensive archival research and using a conflated theoretical framework, the author offers a portrait of Williams that shows how his experiences in Trinidad, England, and America radicalized him and how his relationships with other Caribbean intellectuals--along with Aimé Césaire in Martinique, Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic, George Lamming of Barbados, and Frantz Fanon from Martinique--enabled him to seize opportunities for social change and make a significant contribution to Caribbean epistemology.
- Contents:
- Colonialism in early twentieth-century Trinidad and Tobago : the Construction of a Socially Dishonored Status
- The construction of a socially dishonored status
- Life abroad : the academic intellectual and the struggle for credentialism
- The native son returns : the public intellectual and the quest for credibility
- In search of relevance : the movement intellectual and the "The University of Woodford Square"
- Exploiting the political opportunity structure : the emergence of the people's national movement party
- From pedantic visionary to elected politician
- The Bachacs confront the "hydra-head" of colonialism : the American presence in Trinidad and Tobago
- Caliban and the anti-colonial tradition
- Afterword: The head that wears the crown lies uneasy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813936857
- OCLC:
- 899283124
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