Caribbean reasonings : freedom, power and sovereignty : the thought of Gordon K. Lewis

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1 - In the Vanguard of Caribbean Thought Deciphering the Marx-Burke Counterpoint in Gordon K. Lewis’s Work Gordon Lewis and the Writing of Afro-Caribbean Political Thought ‘An Extended Debate with Europe?’: G.K. Lewis, Denis Benn, Paget Henry, and the Epistemological Challenge in the Writing of Caribbean Political Thought A Lens of a Different Colour: Gordon K. Lewis, Postmodernity and Cuban Antislavery Narratives Opening the Canon: The Place of Theology in Caribbean Intellectual Thought Toward Reconstituting Caribbean Identity Discourse from within the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao PART 2 - Rethinking Caribbean Politics The ‘Slums of Empire’ and Gordon K. Lewis: Reflections on Decolonization and Sovereignty in the Caribbean1 Some Perspectives on Gordon Lewis’s Legacy in the Understanding of Regionalism The Reshaping of Freedom and Power in Puerto Rico: Community-based Social Change in the Era of Neoliberal Reforms Gordon Lewis and the Mass Suicide in Jonestown, Guyana 1978 Bibliography Contributors Caribbean Reasonings: Index Homage to Gordon K. Lewis (1919-1991), Gordon K. Lewis (1919-1991) was a leading expert on the Caribbean. Lewis published many important books and articles on the Caribbean including Puerto Rico: freedom and power in the Caribbean (1962), The growth of the modern West Indies (1968), Main currents in Caribbean thought (1983) and Grenada: the jewel despoiled (1987), among others. "From his arrival in Puerto Rico in the 1950s, until his death in the early 1990s, Lewis, through his numerous publications, established himself as a Caribbean thinker. The breadth of Lewis's scholarship is revealed in these ten chapters covering his work on the Caribbean. From concepts of sovereignty and regional integration, to the nature of democracy in the contemporary Caribbean, the influence of African thought and the African Diaspora on the development of a Caribbean intellectual tradition, the influence of theology and the pursuit of a democratic socialism for the Caribbean, G.K. Lewis's work is analysed, admired and critiqued by the contributors."