Routledge Literary Black Power in the Caribbean: Fiction, Music and Film (Routledge African Diaspora Literary and Cultural Studies)

Literary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in theanglophone 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 intheir evaluations of, and insights on, the relevance of the Black Power messageacross the region. The author takes a cultural studies approach to bring togetherthe political with the aesthetic, enriching an already fertile debate on the era andthe subject of Black Power in the Caribbean region. The chapters discuss variousaspects of Black Power in the Caribbean: on the pages of journals and magazines,at contemporary conferences that radicalized academia to join forces with communities,in fiction and essays by writers and intellectuals, in calypso and reggaemusic, and in the first films produced in the Caribbean.Produced at the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Portof Spain, Trinidad, this timely book will be of interest to students and academicsfocusing on Black Power, Caribbean literary and cultural studies, African diaspora,and Global South radical political and cultural theory. About the Author 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.