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The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory by Shalini Puri (review)

The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory by Shalini Puri (review) Shalini Puri, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 341 pp. Grenada haunts the Caribbean radical imagination. Shalini Puri's first monograph, The Caribbean Postcolonial, showed her to be one of the most thoughtful and committed cultural critics of Caribbean radicalism. That book's readings of concepts like hybridity, transgression, opposition and resistance cleared ground in postcolonial studies for a substantial political rethinking of the field's conceptual categories. Her most recent scholarly work, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present, takes advantage of that reclaimed intellectual space. Whereas the earlier book belonged to a moment of extreme theoretical introspection within the field, the newer book is part of a larger move in postcolonial studies to engage with the materiality of social movements and governmentality in the global south. As a result, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present provides a model for a politically urgent literary studies, showing how much a cultural studies approach can offer to the rethinking of radical postcolonial projects. The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present is brilliant simply as a cultural history, offering a compilation of the wide range of ways in which the Grenada Revolution has http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory by Shalini Puri (review)

The Comparatist , Volume 40 – Nov 11, 2016
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Shalini Puri, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 341 pp. Grenada haunts the Caribbean radical imagination. Shalini Puri's first monograph, The Caribbean Postcolonial, showed her to be one of the most thoughtful and committed cultural critics of Caribbean radicalism. That book's readings of concepts like hybridity, transgression, opposition and resistance cleared ground in postcolonial studies for a substantial political rethinking of the field's conceptual categories. Her most recent scholarly work, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present, takes advantage of that reclaimed intellectual space. Whereas the earlier book belonged to a moment of extreme theoretical introspection within the field, the newer book is part of a larger move in postcolonial studies to engage with the materiality of social movements and governmentality in the global south. As a result, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present provides a model for a politically urgent literary studies, showing how much a cultural studies approach can offer to the rethinking of radical postcolonial projects. The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present is brilliant simply as a cultural history, offering a compilation of the wide range of ways in which the Grenada Revolution has

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