{"product_id":"literary-black-power-in-the-caribbean-fiction-music-and-film-paperback","title":"Literary Black Power in the Caribbean: Fiction, Music and Film - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRita Keresztesi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary Black Power in the Caribbean focuses on the Black Power movement in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanglophone Caribbean as represented and critically debated in literary texts, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emusic and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume is groundbreaking in its focus on the creative arts and artists in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etheir evaluations of, and insights on, the relevance of the Black Power message\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eacross the region. The author takes a cultural studies approach to bring together\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe political with the aesthetic, enriching an already fertile debate on the era and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe subject of Black Power in the Caribbean region. The chapters discuss various\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003easpects of Black Power in the Caribbean: on the pages of journals and magazines, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat contemporary conferences that radicalized academia to join forces with communities, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein fiction and essays by writers and intellectuals, in calypso and reggae\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emusic, and in the first films produced in the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced at the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Port\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Spain, Trinidad, this timely book will be of interest to students and academics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efocusing on Black Power, Caribbean literary and cultural studies, African diaspora, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Global South radical political and cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRita 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 \u003ci\u003eStrangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Western in the Global South\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 218\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42171609710727,"sku":"9780367529376","price":93.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e5eca67d1f9a2b44a15a93dee512b830.webp?v=1733357012","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/literary-black-power-in-the-caribbean-fiction-music-and-film-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}