Publisher:
Manchester University Press, Manchester
This lively book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of imperial Britain....
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This lively book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of imperial Britain. The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain. Written in an accessible, lively style, with a range of wonderful and distinguished authors. Key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain; study thus far has concentrated on Caribbean literature and how authors ‘write back’ to Britain – this book is the first to consider how they ‘think back’ to Britain. A book of the moment - nothing comparable on the Carribean influence on Britain.. Discusses the influence, amongst others, of C. L. R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V. S. Naipaul
General editor's introduction -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Crossing the seas / Bill Schwarz -- 1. What is a West Indian? / Catherine Hall -- 2. 'To do something for the race'. Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples / David Killingray -- 3. A race outcast from an outcast class. Claude McKay's experience and analysis of Britain / Winston James -- 4. Jean Rhys: West Indian intellectual / Helen Carr -- 5. Una Marson: feminism, anti-colonialism and a forgotten fight for freedom / Alison Donnell -- 6. George Padmore / Bill Schwarz -- 7. C. L. R. James: visions of history, visions of Britain / Stephen Howe -- 8. George Lamming / Mary Chamberlain -- 9. 'This is London calling the West Indies'. The BBC's Caribbean Voices / Glyne Griffith -- 10. The Caribbean Artists Movement / Louis James -- 11. V. S. Naipaul / Sue Thomas -- Afterword: the predicament of history / Bill Schwarz -- Index
Publisher:
Manchester University Press, Manchester
This lively book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of imperial Britain....
more
This lively book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of imperial Britain. The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain. Written in an accessible, lively style, with a range of wonderful and distinguished authors. Key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain; study thus far has concentrated on Caribbean literature and how authors ‘write back’ to Britain – this book is the first to consider how they ‘think back’ to Britain. A book of the moment - nothing comparable on the Carribean influence on Britain.. Discusses the influence, amongst others, of C. L. R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V. S. Naipaul
General editor's introduction -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Crossing the seas / Bill Schwarz -- 1. What is a West Indian? / Catherine Hall -- 2. 'To do something for the race'. Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples / David Killingray -- 3. A race outcast from an outcast class. Claude McKay's experience and analysis of Britain / Winston James -- 4. Jean Rhys: West Indian intellectual / Helen Carr -- 5. Una Marson: feminism, anti-colonialism and a forgotten fight for freedom / Alison Donnell -- 6. George Padmore / Bill Schwarz -- 7. C. L. R. James: visions of history, visions of Britain / Stephen Howe -- 8. George Lamming / Mary Chamberlain -- 9. 'This is London calling the West Indies'. The BBC's Caribbean Voices / Glyne Griffith -- 10. The Caribbean Artists Movement / Louis James -- 11. V. S. Naipaul / Sue Thomas -- Afterword: the predicament of history / Bill Schwarz -- Index
