Título: IN NOBODY'S BACKYARD. MAURICE BISHOP'S SPEECHES, 1979-1983. A MEMORIAL VOLUME
Autor: SEARLE, CHRIS
Año: 1985
Género: BIOGRAFÍAS Y MEMORIAS
Formato: PDF
Rare collection and analysis of the Grenada Revolution.
«Nobody's Backyard» is a memorial volume of speeches by the late Prime Minister of Grenada and leader of the Grenada Revolution, Maurice Bishop. Putting particular stress on the speeches of the last two critical years of his life, this comprehensive collection is a tribute to the radical inspiration and analysis to which 'Brother Bish' gave expression.
Maurice Bishop's significance goes far beyond Grenada, and his ideas -in the company of other Third World martyrs like Salvador Allende, Amílcar Cabral and Eduardo Mondlane- will live on long after his death. Concerned always to educate, he speaks not just to Grenadians and West Indians, but to all black and working people and the oppressed of the Third World. By turns analytical, moving, amusing, his thinking ranges over the world capitalist crisis and its impact, imperialism and its distorting effects on the media, cultural sovereignty, the law, women, the struggle against unemployment, U.S. destabilization and Caribbean history.
The introduction by Richard Hart is a portrait of the revolution, placing it in its historical context within the Caribbean as a whole. Hart draws on the minutes of the Central Committee of the People's Revolutionary Government and his own personal knowledge to tell the story of the life and tragic death of the Revolution, and how the divisions in the leadership of the New Jewel Movement paved the way for the U.S. invasion and destruction of the Caribbean's most profound rupture with imperialism since the Cuban Revolution of 1959.
Richard Hart became Grenada's Attorney General in 1982 and left the island following the U.S. invasion of October 1983. A veteran of the Caribbean struggle, he was a founder member of Jamaica's nationalist movement, was detained by the British in the 1940s and is the author of «Slaves Who Abolished Slavery», a major account of the resistance to slavery in the Caribbean.
Chris Searle, the editor, is an English writer, teacher and poet who worked in revolutionary Grenada for two years and helped to establish Fedon Publishers, the Revolution's publishing house. He is the author of «Grenada: The Struggle Against Destabilization» and «Words Unchained: Language and Revolution in Grenada».
The name Maurice Bishop will blossom into one of the most fertilising symbols of creative expression in the culture and politics of the region.
– George Lamming
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