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West Indian intellectuals in Britain
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Abstract Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things - new musics, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This lively, innovative 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... view more
Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things - new musics, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This lively, innovative 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. This is the first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to live in twentieth-century Britain. Chapters discuss the influence of, amongst others, C. L. R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V. S. Naipaul. The contributors to this fascinating volume draw from many different disciplines to bring alive the thought and personalities of the figures they discuss, providing a dramatic picture of intellectual developments in Britain from which we can still learn much. A lucid introduction argues that the recovery of this Caribbean past, on the home-territory of Britain itself, reveals much about the prospects of multiracial Britain. Written in an accessible manner, undergraduates and general readers interested in relations between the Caribbean and Britain, imperial history, literature, cultural and black studies will all find much of interest in this collection.
Tabel of contents:
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... view less
Keywords
multicultural society; intellectual; diaspora; historical development; migration; Great Britain; Caribbean Region; cultural integration; twentieth century; cultural imperialism
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Document language
English
Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Manchester Univ. Press
City
Manchester
Page/Pages
273 p.
Series
Studies in Imperialsim
ISBN
0-7190-6474-0
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works