Description
Book SynopsisExamines the history, and possible futures, of radical politics in the postcolonial Caribbean
Trade Review'A clarion call and a reminder that only a fully democratised, postsecular state of our collective making can save us. After the Postcolonial Caribbean is exemplary'
-- Francio Guadeloupe, University of Amsterdam and Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian & Caribbean studies
'Presents us with a challenge, the daunting task of imagining and creating a world beyond the post-colonial present. Through a combination of political theory, political economy, popular culture and Caribbean critique, Meeks offers his readers a grounding in this critical meditation on the meaning of social transformation and freedom while avoiding the tendency to descend into pessimism and despair'
-- David Austin, author of 'Dread Poetry' and 'Freedom'
'Presents an erudite and unexcitable interpretation of the dark times which engulf us. In sprightly, dancing prose he locates the Caribbean in the global currents which organise who we now are and who we can become ... A rare book of beauty'
-- Bill Schwarz, Professor at Queen Mary University of London
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part One: Reminiscing
1. Reminiscing in Black, Gold and Green
2. Reading the Seventies in a Different Stylie
3. The Politics of Edna Manley
4. Lamming’s Politics and the Radical Caribbean
5. Jamaican Roads Not Taken
Part Two: Reimagining
6. Beyond Neoliberalism’s Dead End
7. Hegemony and the Trumpian Moment
8. Roadblock on Hope Road
9. On the Question of Optimism in Troubled Times
