The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2021
Publication Title
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism on Caribbean Intellectual History
Abstract
This essay provides a meditation on the field of Caribbean intellectual history. Commencing with a reflection on the second edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta 1976), the essay proceeds to outline the contours of the field through a consideration of eight relatively discrete though overlapping categories. It argues that the study of Caribbean intellectual history gives us more conscious control over the articulation and reproduction of critical ideas about the region over time and space, alerts us to transformations in the conditions of Caribbean intellectual production, and reminds us of the existential crises the region faces in the third decade of the twenty-first century.
Keywords
Caribbean intellectual history, black radical tradition, Caribbean thought, Caribbean studies
Volume
64
Recommended Citation
Kamugisha, Aaron, "The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History" (2021). Article, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/celebratingfacultyscholarship2021pubs/8
Comments
Article part of special issue section of SX 64:
On Caribbean Intellectual History Guest editor, Aaron Kamugisha