Literary Black Power in the Caribbean

<p>Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the</p><p>anglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts</p><p>music and film.</p><p>This volume is groundbreaking in its focus on the creative arts and artists in</p><p>their evaluations of and insights on the relevance of the Black Power message</p><p>across the region. The author takes a cultural studies approach to bring together</p><p>the political with the aesthetic enriching an already fertile debate on the era and</p><p>the subject of Black Power in the Caribbean region. The chapters discuss various</p><p>aspects of Black Power in the Caribbean: on the pages of journals and magazines</p><p>at contemporary conferences that radicalized academia to join forces with communities</p><p>in fiction and essays by writers and intellectuals in calypso and reggae</p><p>music and in the first films produced in the Caribbean.</p><p>Produced at the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Port</p><p>of Spain Trinidad this timely book will be of interest to students and academics</p><p>focusing on Black Power Caribbean literary and cultural studies African diaspora</p><p>and Global South radical political and cultural theory.</p>