1st Edition
Literary Black Power in the Caribbean Fiction, Music and Film
By Rita Keresztesi
Copyright 2021
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the
anglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts,
music and film.
This volume is groundbreaking in its focus on the creative arts and artists in
their evaluations of, and insights on, the relevance of the Black Power message
across the region. The author takes a cultural... Read more
Acknowledgements. Introduction: "Black Power Creolized". Chapter 1: "The Long Caribbean Seventies". Chapter 2: "Sylvia Wynter’s Decolonial Humanism". Chapter 3: "Black Power Revolution in Trinidad". Chapter 4: "Carnival, Calypso & the Black Power ‘Rebellion’". Chapter 5: "Caribbean Black Power in Cinema and Fiction". Chapter 6 – Epilogue: "Rastafari, Reggae and Black Power". Bibliography. Index
Biography
Rita Keresztesi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focuses on African and African Diaspora literary and cultural studies. She is the author of Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism and co-editor of The Western in the Global South.
