UID:
almahu_9947363456202882
Format:
360 p. :
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51 b&w, ill.
ISBN:
9781137066909 :
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1137066903 :
Series Statement:
New Caribbean studies
Content:
Studying cultural memory of the Grenada Revolution as it surfaces in literature, music, the visual arts, law, landscape, and everyday life, this book approaches the 1979-1983 Grenada Revolution as a pan-Caribbean event. Puri reveals the deep consequences for Caribbean politics and culture even today.
Content:
"The reverberations from the Grenada Revolution and from its violent ending continue to stir passions on the island and throughout the Caribbean. While political and historical analyses abound, Puri's wonderful new book offers something completely different: a kind of cultural geography of present-day Grenada which seeks out the places that the restless memories of the Revolution are embedded. Through an ethnographic immersion in the local culture, she attends to all forms of remembrance, from literary text to calypso, from memorabilia to architecture. The result is a startlingly original and haunting set of analyses." - Peter Hulme, Professor of Literature, University of Essex, UK "Puri's book on the Grenada Revolution breaks with normative philosophical or social scientific categories that evaluate decisions taken and policies pursued. It offers an account of the ways in which desire, despair, hope, and betrayal are lived and experienced by ordinary people. Puri builds an archive through readings of landscape, music, and literature that show how both memory and its silencing are embodied in the intimacies of everyday life. She thus destabilizes categories like collaborator and vanguard, comrade and traitor, by focusing instead on what it would mean to imagine alternative politics through the micropoetics of artistic practices and the cultural geographies of land. By investigating how memory erupts, as well as how it lies unnoticed, unmemorialized, and even buried, Puri asks us to imagine democracy, engagement, and the politics of research in new ways." - Deborah Thomas, Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA "Puri leaves the well-trodden path of previous accounts of the rise and fall of the Grenada Revolution that are reliably inscribed within a sturdy political economy idiom. She risks instead a finely textured narrative that draws on the resources of the aesthetic and of memory in its various forms to bring to the surface the more elusive omissions. The necessity of such a work resides in the fact that, notwithstanding the sometimes exceptional scholarship of existing histories of the period, the regional Left has not recovered from the collapse of the Grenada Revolution. Puri's book in its quiet, meditative unfolding re-energizes the search for a politics of the possible." - Rupert Roopnaraine, Working People's Alliance, Guyana and author of The Sky's Wild Noise: Selected Essays.
Note:
Electronic book text.
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Epublication based on: 9780230120327, 2014.
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Introduction: Operation Urgent Memory * Wave * Faultlines * Fort * Continent * Stone * Volcano * Cross * Hurricane * Prison * Sand.
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Document
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PDF.
Language:
English
URL:
Online journal 'available contents' page
