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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146879103321

Titolo

West Indian intellectuals in Britain / / edited by Bill Schwarz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2003

ISBN

1-84779-571-4

1-5261-3796-8

1-78170-042-7

1-280-73443-4

9786610734436

1-84779-076-3

1-4237-0648-X

Edizione

[MSI edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studies in imperialism

Altri autori (Persone)

SchwarzBill <1951->

Disciplina

305.5/52/089969729041

Soggetti

Intellectuals - Great Britain

West Indians - Great Britain - Intellectual life

Great Britain Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

First published: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Crossing the seas (Bill Schwarz) -- 1 What is a West Indian? (Catherine Hall) -- 2. 'To do something for the race': Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples (David Killingray) -- 3. A race outcast from an outcast class: Claude McKay's experience and analysis of Britain (Winston James) -- 4. Jean Rhys: West Indian intellectual (Helen Carr) -- 5. Una Marson: feminism, anti-colonialism and a forgotten fight for freedom (Alison Donnell) -- 6. George Padmore (Bill Schwarz) --  7. C. L. R. James: visions of history, visions of Britain (Stephen Howe) -- 8. George Lamming (Mary Chamberlain) -- 9. 'This is London calling the West Indies': the BBC's Caribbean Voices (Glyne Griffith) -- 10. The Caribbean Artists Movement (Louis James) -- 11. V. S. Naipaul (Sue Thomas) -- Afterword: The predicament of history (Bill Schwarz) --Index.



Sommario/riassunto

Caribbean migration to Britain brought many new things - new musics, new foods, new styles. It brought new ways of thinking too. This lively, innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that, for more than a century, West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of Imperial Britain.