Elsa Goveia
History and Nation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Chamberlain (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 167-190 |
| Publication date | 2004-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/58.1.167 |
| OpenAlex | W1993038361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
In a society which has been shot through by diverse inter-racial features and inter-continental thresholds, we need a philosophy of history which is original to us and yet capable of universal applications. Caribbean man is involved in a civilisation-making process (whether he likes it or not) and until this creative authority becomes intimate to his perspectives, he will continue to find himself embalmed in his deprivations – embalmed as a derivative tool-making, fence-making animal. As such his dialectic will remain a frozen round of protest.1 So argued the Guyanese novelist, Wilson Harris, in the third of his Edgar Mittelholzer lectures delivered in Guyana in 1970, adding that, in his view, there were only two Caribbean historians – the Trinidadian C. L. R. James and his fellow Guyanese, Elsa Goveia – who came close to adumbrating such a philosophy. What was it about Goveia that, for Harris’s generation at least, rendered her and James of equal stature? While James’s philosophy of history was derived from his (albeit shifting) position within Marxism, Goveia, a generation later, subscribed to the aims of the New World Group which had been active in the Caribbean throughout the 1960s, and of which Goveia had been an early member. Her philosophy of history fitted with its aims: New World is a movement which aims to transform the mode of living and thinking in the region. The movement rejects uncritical acceptance of dogmas and ideologies imported from outside and bases its ideas for
Consciousness · Economic history · Independence (probability theory) · Intellectual history · Meaning (existential) · Media studies · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Social history (medicine) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology
Eichmann in Jerusalem
General History of the Caribbean
Slavery and Emancipation
Colonial West Indian Students in Britain
Les esclaves aux Antilles francaises (XVII^e-XVIII^e siecles)
The Moyne Commission and the West Indian intelligentsia, 1938–39
The Social Framework
The Caribbean Artists Movement
Education and Social Change in Ghana
West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Politics, Nation and PostColony
The Quest for Independence in the Caribbean
Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885
A Study on the Historiography of the British West Indies to the End of the Nineteenth Century
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2010 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |