Umfang:
392 Seiten
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Illustrationen (some color)
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24 cm
ISBN:
9781845231613
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1845231619
Inhalt:
The essays in this collection range across the politics, literature, the visual arts, social commentary, memoirs and tributes. They encompass Guyana and the wider Caribbean, inclluding the suicide of the Grenadian revolution and the American invasion (of which Roopnaraine was an intimate witness)
Inhalt:
For the past thirty or more years, Rupert Roopnaraine has played a leading part in a Guyanese battle for an inclusionary democracy, social justice, racial harmony and the creation of a decolonised civil society with culture and the imagination at hits heart. What he has stood for is clearly demonstrated in the range and style of these essays. They reveal a passionate enemy of authoritarianism and ethnic chauvinism (including, for instance, the continuing disrespect shown to Guyana's Amerindian population) but they also show a man who can respond to the human qualities of his political opponents
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Essays on Walter Rodney, the republican ideal, Cheddi Jaga, Desmond Hoyte, Martin Carter, Edgar Mittelholzer, AJ Seymour and Kyk-over-Al, the lexicographer Richard Allsop, and the artists Hawley Harris, Philip Moore, Winston Strick, Ras Akyem, and Stanley Greaves, reveal yet again that there are few Caribbean critics who write with such grace and insight. Indeed, one sees in the qualities of Roopnaraine's even occasional pieces the presence of a Caribbean Hazlitt, with the same radical instincts, sharp antennae for the spirit of the age and a prose style that is both elegant and intensely alive
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The presence and values of three close comrades - Martin Carter, Walter Rodney and Eusi Kwayana - infuse this collection as the touchstones to which Rubert Roopnaraine constantly returns as evidence of the capacity of Guyana and the Caribbean for a politics that has intellectual acumen, imagination and moral passion at its centre. --Book Jacket
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Politics -- Not in Our Stars: Thoughts on the Republican Idea -- Xenophobia: Preparing to Welcome the Queen -- Easter Offerings -- Peace -- On Emancipation Day 2000 -- For the Birth of a New World -- Lay Down the Guns -- Resonances of Revolution: Grenada, Suriname, Guyana -- Walter Rodney and the Answer of Power -- Race and Politics in Guyana -- Racial Tension and National Development -- The Fear that Dare Not Speak its Name -- The State of Cultural Enterprises in the Caribbean -- The Enduring Significance of the Critchlow Labour College -- Sharing, Solidarity and Togetherness -- Literature -- This is a Good Time to Reach for Martin -- Martin Carter and Politics -- Books and the Literary Crisis -- With the Flung Spray and the Blown Spume: Salute to Kykoveral, Fifty Years Old -- Till it Language Your Tongue: Lexicography and Beyond -- Race and Rebellion: a Personal Interview with the Past: Writing and making history in Walter Rodney's History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 -- Religion, Sex and Utopia in Mittelholzer's Shadows Move Among Them -- There is no singularity of affiliation: Introduction to Joseph Singh, Growing Up in BG -- Art -- The Cat Behind the Grin: the High Artfulness of Hawley Harris -- Isolation: The Paintings of Ras Ishi Butcher -- Redemptions and Retentions: the paintings of Ras Akyem-I -- New Paintings by Akyem and Ishi -- Philip Moore of Guyana and the Universe -- Rupununi Grazing: Winston Strick and the Art of Leather -- Shadows Move Among Them: new paintings by Stanley Greaves -- Shadows Move Among Them II: more new paintings by Stanley Greaves -- The Pedagogy of Appreciation: A Review of Art in the Caribbean, An Introduction -- Tributes -- Walter Rodney Lives: Tribute delivered at his funeral, June 23, 1980 -- His Head Touch The Sky: Delivered at the funeral of President Cheddi Jagan, 10 March 1997 -- Tribute to Cheddi Jagan, Parliamentarian -- "Teach the free man how to praise": Celebrating Martin, one year later -- Parliamentary Tribute to Martin Carter -- Thinking about Desmond -- Soppy.
Sprache:
Englisch
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