Beyond Coloniality
Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
Published on 1. February 2019
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-253-03626-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Beyond 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) 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) 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)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-03626-1 (9780253036261)
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02/2019
Indiana University Press
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Person
Aaron Kamugisha is the Ruth Simmons Professor in Africana Studies at Smith College.
Content
Preface
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
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