Caribbean Cultural Thought : From Plantation to Diaspora

Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in the study of Caribbean societies. Written from the perspective of primarily Caribbean authors and renowned scholars of the region, it excavates classic texts in Caribbean Cultural Thought and places them in dialogue with contemporary interrogations and explorations of regional cultural politics and debates concerning identity and social change; colonialism; diaspora; aesthetics; religion and spirituality; gender and sexuality and nationalisms. The result is a reader that presents a distinctive Caribbean voice that emphasizes the long history of critical writings on culture and its intersection with political work in the Caribbean intellectual tradition from within the academy and beyond. Contributors: Anténor Firmin, José Martí, Jean Price-Mars, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Léon Damas, Martin Carter, Marcus Garvey, Percy Hintzen, Roberto Fernández Retamar, M. Jacqui Alexander, Nicholás Guillén, George Beckford, George Lamming, Richard Price, Lucille Mathurin-Mair, Sidney Mintz, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Fernando Ortiz, Jean Price-Mars, Elsa Goveia, Kamau Brathwaite, Richard Price, Patricia Mohammed, Peter Wilson, David Scott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Lloyd Best, Rex Nettleford, Edouard Glissant, Jacques Stephen Alexis, Alejo Carpentier, C.L.R. James, Wilson Harris, Gordon Rohlehr, Sylvia Wynter, Gloria Wekker, Audre Lorde, Kamala Kempadoo, Jamaica Kincaid, Margarite Fernández Olmos, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Barry Chevannes, Aisha Khan, Dianne M. Stewart, Stuart Hall, Sean Lokaisingh-Meighoo, Erna Brodber, Shani Mootoo, Louise Bennett, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Derek Walcott