Black nationalism in the new world
Subtitle: reading the African-American and West Indian experience
By: Robert Carr.
Series: Latin America otherwise
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Black nationalism -- United States; African Americans -- Race identity; Black nationalism -- West Indies; Blacks -- Race identity -- West Indies
Description: Black Nationalism in the New World combines geography, political economy, and subaltern studies in readings of noncanonical literary works, which in turn illuminate debates over African-American and West Indian culture, identity, and politics. In addition to Martin Delany's Blake; or The Huts of America, Carr focuses on Crown Jewel, R. A. C. de Boissière's novel of the Trinidadian revolt against British rule; Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces; Wilson Harris's Guyana Quartet; the writings of the Oakland Black Panthers-- particularly Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver; the gay novella Just Being Guys Together; and Lionheart Gal, a collection of patois testimonials assembled by Sistren, a radical Jamaican women's theater group active in the 1980s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-359) and index.
Table of contents: title: F(o)unding Black capital : money, power, culture, and revolution in Martin R. Delany's Blake ; or, The huts of America; title: Of what use is history? : blood, race, nation, and ethnicity in Pauline Hopkins' New woman; title: From larva to chrysalis : multicultural consciousness and anticolonial revolution in Ralph de Boissière's Crown jewel; title: The new man in the jungle : chaos, community, and the margins of the nation-state; title: The masculinization of mothering : the Oakland Black Panthers and the Black body politic; title: A politics of change : Sistren, subalternity, and the social pact in the war for democratic socialism; title: Geopolitics/geoculture : denationalization in the new world order.