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Shalini Puri - The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present - 9780230120327 - V9780230120327
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The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present

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Description for The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present Hardcover. Studying cultural memory of the Grenada Revolution as it surfaces in literature, music, the visual arts, law, landscape, and everyday life, this book approaches the 1979-1983 Grenada Revolution as a pan-Caribbean event. Puri reveals the deep consequences for Caribbean politics and culture even today. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KJWWG; 3JJPL; DSBH5; HBTV; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 676.

The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory is the first scholarly book from the humanities on the subject of the Grenada Revolution and the US intervention. It is simultaneously a critique, tribute, and memorial. It argues that in both its making and its fall, the 1979-1983 Revolution was a transnational event that deeply impacted politics and culture across the Caribbean and its diaspora during its life and in the decades since its fall. Drawing together studies of landscape, memorials, literature, music, painting, photographs, film and TV, cartoons, memorabilia traded on e-bay, interviews, everyday life, and government, journalistic, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
New Caribbean Studies
Number of Pages
341
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230120327
SKU
V9780230120327
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Shalini Puri
Shalini Puri is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Puri is the author of the award-winning book The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity and the editor of The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics and Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures in the Caribbean. She is currently working on a collaborative project on the ... Read more

Reviews for The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present
“Shalini Puri’s The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory contributes to and intervenes in this scholarship on the Revolution. … Puri’s text is useful for those interested in Caribbean studies, Africana studies, American studies, literary methods, Caribbean history, English, trauma studies, international relations, and peace and conflict studies. It is a significant contribution across these fields, especially ... Read more

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