After the Postcolonial Caribbean: Reminiscence, Creativeness, Hope (2023)—a brand new e-book by Brian Meeks that examines the historical past, and doable futures, of radical politics within the postcolonial Caribbean—was printed this January by Pluto Press. Organized by the Watson Institute for Worldwide and Public Affairs and the Heart for Latin American and Caribbean Research at Brown College, the launch for this new e-book will happen on Thursday, March 23, 2023. Guests could attend in particular person on the Watson Institute, at 111 Thayer Road, Brown College, Windfall, Rhode Island, or you could register for the webinar at https://tinyurl.com/mnyusffn.
Guide Launch: 2:00-3:30pm (EST)
Dialogue: “In direction of New Caribbean Futures”, with Brian Meeks, Aaron Kamugisha, Anthony Bogues, Noliwe Rooks, Paget Henry, Patsy Lewis, Alissa Trotz, Daniel Rodriguez, Francio Guadeloupe, and Gabrielle Hosein. 4:00-6:00pm (EST)
Guide Description: Throughout the Anglophone Caribbean, the good expectations of independence have been by no means met. From Black Energy and Jamaican Democratic Socialism to the Grenada Revolution, the unconventional currents that when animated the area recede into reminiscence. Greater than half a century later, the probability of radical change seems vanishingly small on the horizon. However what have been the twists and turns within the postcolonial journey that introduced us right here? And is there hope but for the Caribbean to advance in direction of extra simply, democratic and empowering futures?
After the Postcolonial Caribbean is structured in two components. In ‘Remembering’, Brian Meeks employs an autobiographical kind, drawing on his personal reminiscences and experiences of the unconventional politics and tradition of the Caribbean within the a long time following the top of colonialism. In ‘Imagining’ he takes inspiration from the likes of Edna Manley, George Lamming and Stuart Corridor in reaching in direction of a brand new theoretical framework that may assist forge new currents of mental and political resistance.
Meeks concludes by making the case for reestablishing optimism as a vital cornerstone for any reemergent progressive motion.
Brian Meeks is Professor of Africana Research at Brown College. He has authored or edited quite a few books together with Crucial Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Principle, Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Principle, Narratives of Resistance, and Envisioning Caribbean Futures. He’s additionally the writer of the novel Paint the City Pink and the poetry assortment The Coup Clock Clicks.
For extra on the occasion, see https://watson.brown.edu/occasions/2023/after-postcolonial-caribbean-memory-imagination-hope
For extra info on the e-book, see https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347905/after-the-postcolonial-caribbean
The occasion will probably be accessible for viewing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSVM3evgBk