On the Idea of a Caribbean Cultural Studies

Bibliographic Data

ID4752659
AuthorsAaron Kamugisha (corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume17
Issue2
Pages43-57
Publication date2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/07990537-2323310
OpenAlexW2110735270
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited19

This article critically appraises the wealth of cultural criticism and epistemological developments in the study of Caribbean societies now increasingly grouped under an emerging discipline termed Caribbean cultural studies. It advances the claim that the critical study of Caribbean culture is in many ways inseparable from a study of its intellectual traditions in their social, political, and aesthetic dimensions. While this may seem unremarkable, it bears emphasizing that the study of culture and the creation of a Caribbean cultural studies emerged in a manner quite distinct from the formation of cultural studies in Europe and North America. To this end, the author sketches a number of overlapping traditions of writing on culture in the Caribbean that take us from the late nineteenth century and considers the work of two Caribbean theorists, C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter, for their own sustained meditations on the question of culture in the Caribbean

Caribbean art · Caribbean island · Caribbean region · Criticism · Cultural diversity · Cultural issues · Environmental ethics · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cultural Studies · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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