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Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
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.
280 pages, Hardcover
Published February 1, 2019
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June 29, 2025
Inciting and Inspiring around Inconvenient Truth
An impressive result from an unequally earnest effort to reflect and reference some of the greatest moments and minds in Caribbean history. Well-written and even more well-intended to provoke thought of freedom, sovereignty and a meaningful departure from the colonial constraints that persist arguably due to the inert-ing (nerf-ing) of truly leftist, radical players in the early and mid- 20th century. While I am tempted to say more, I do not want to spoil in even the slightest some of the fantastic frames and unflattering but ultimately necessary reflections of the modern stagnation that re-invents itself but barely to by and large maintain the status quo. Not an easy read but in many ways an essential resource in the spirit of all the critical underpinnings that are cited throughout.. 10 out of the 10, would read again AND recommend to a friend. Thanks Kamugisha.
An impressive result from an unequally earnest effort to reflect and reference some of the greatest moments and minds in Caribbean history. Well-written and even more well-intended to provoke thought of freedom, sovereignty and a meaningful departure from the colonial constraints that persist arguably due to the inert-ing (nerf-ing) of truly leftist, radical players in the early and mid- 20th century. While I am tempted to say more, I do not want to spoil in even the slightest some of the fantastic frames and unflattering but ultimately necessary reflections of the modern stagnation that re-invents itself but barely to by and large maintain the status quo. Not an easy read but in many ways an essential resource in the spirit of all the critical underpinnings that are cited throughout.. 10 out of the 10, would read again AND recommend to a friend. Thanks Kamugisha.
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