Caribbean integration: can cultural production succeed where politics and economics have failed?
04/06/2012
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Text of the keynote address delivered at the St Martin Book Fair on May 31, 2012; the original (and less interesting) title being “Challenges and Opportunities in Forwarding the Caribbean Family”.
“Caribbean people are already integrated. The only people who don’t know it are the governments.”
These are the words of George Beckford, a great Caribbean thinker. He was referring to the way in which the domain of culture and of popular intercourse among Caribbean people, converges; while it diverges from the world of politics and government. Beckford’s insight is a useful point of departure for my reflections.
Cultural activists have long detached the notion of Caribbean from political borders. In the 1960s The New World Group held that the Caribbean was practically synonymous with ‘plantation America’, an area that stretches from the Northeast of Brazil to the South of the United States.
- Text of the keynote address delivered at the St Martin Book Fair on May 31, 2012; the original (and less interesting) title being “Challenges and Opportunities in Forwarding the Caribbean Family”.
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