Narratives of Resistance - Meeks, Brian
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This is a hard-hitting analysis of contemporary social, political and intellectual resistance to hegemony in Caribbean societies. Beginning with the "obscure" Henry Rebellion in 1960, at the very end of colonial rule, and ending with a look at the Caribbean Left at the end of the twentieth century, Meeks shows how popular resistance to domination has been manifested in Jamaica and Trinidad. He concludes that, for the small island states and mainland territories of the Caribbean, despite the social and economic crises of the recent past, there is still the possibility of social and political revival and popular renewal.…mehr

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This is a hard-hitting analysis of contemporary social, political and intellectual resistance to hegemony in Caribbean societies. Beginning with the "obscure" Henry Rebellion in 1960, at the very end of colonial rule, and ending with a look at the Caribbean Left at the end of the twentieth century, Meeks shows how popular resistance to domination has been manifested in Jamaica and Trinidad. He concludes that, for the small island states and mainland territories of the Caribbean, despite the social and economic crises of the recent past, there is still the possibility of social and political revival and popular renewal.
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Autorenporträt
Brian Meeks is Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and was chair of the department from 2015-2021. He was Professor of Social and Political Change and Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona until 2015. He has taught political theory, comparative politics, Caribbean political thought and African American politics at Michigan State University, Florida International University, Anton de Kom University in Suriname and the University of the West Indies, Mona. He has been Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Latin American Studies at Cambridge University, Visiting Scholar at Brown University and Visiting Tinker Scholar at Stanford University. He has authored or edited twelve books and many articles on Caribbean politics and political theory. Among them are Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: An Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada; Narratives of Resistance: Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean; New Caribbean Thought: a Reader; Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives, Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall; The Thought of New World: the Quest for Decolonisation, M.G. Smith: Social Theory and Anthropology in the Caribbean and Beyond and Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory. His novel, Paint the Town Red, was published in 2003. His volume of poetry, The Coup Clock Clicks was published in 2018. Other poems have appeared in various anthologies including the seminal Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse. His new book in the Pluto Press Black Critique series - After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Memory, Imagination, Hope - will be published in 2022.