Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBeyond Coloniality is, unsurprisingly, a superbly well-informed and complex book. Forthright in tone and urgent in message, it is also remarkably engaging, and Kamugisha does his scholarly job of identifying important lacunae and unpaid debts in the existing literature on Caribbean thought.
* Social Text *
Aaron Kamugisha's Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, represents the radical dimension of the black nationalist tradition.
* Society for U.S. Intellectual History *
Most absorbing is the book's critical assessment of how certain theories and metanarratives are inadequate to address the current realities of political-cultural discord in the contemporary Caribbean.
* Small Axe.net *
Kamugisha moves with great skill between the more specific discourses of the state, the middle class, tradition and modernity, and his close readings of members of the Caribbean intellectual tradition.
-- Paget Henry * New West Indian Guide *
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality
2. The Contemporary as Absurdity: Denials of Citizenship in the Caribbean Postcolony
3. Caribbean Racial States
4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom
5. The Caribbean Beyond: Reading Sylvia Wynter on Freedom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
