Eric Williams and the Anticolonial Tradition: The Making of a Diasporan Intellectual - Brossura

St. Pierre, Maurice

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ISBN 10: 081393673X ISBN 13: 9780813936734

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2015

Riassunto

A leader in the social movement that achieved Trinidad and Tobago’s independence from Britain in 1962, Eric Williams (1911–1981) served as its first prime minister. Although much has been written about Williams as a historian and a politician, Maurice St. Pierre is the first to offer a full-length treatment of him as an intellectual. St. Pierre focuses on Williams's role not only in challenging the colonial exploitation of Trinbagonians but also in seeking to educate and mobilize them in an effort to generate a collective identity in the struggle for independence. Drawing on extensive archival research and using a conflated theoretical framework, the author offers a portrait of Williams that shows how his experiences in Trinidad, England, and America radicalized him and how his relationships with other Caribbean intellectuals—along with Aimé Césaire in Martinique, Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic, George Lamming of Barbados, and Frantz Fanon from Martinique—enabled him to seize opportunities for social change and make a significant contribution to Caribbean epistemology.

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L'autore:

Maurice St. Pierre, author of Anatomy of Resistance: Anti-Colonialism in Guyana, 1823–1966, is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology at Morgan State University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 081393673X
• ISBN 13: 9780813936734
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 254