Black Nationalism in the New World

Black Nationalism in the New World combines geography, political economy, and subaltern studies in readings of noncanonical literary works, which in turn illuminate debates over African-American and West Indian culture, identity, and politics. In addition to Martin Delany's Blake; or The Huts of America, Carr focuses on Crown Jewel, R. A. C. de Boissière's novel of the Trinidadian revolt against British rule; Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces; Wilson Harris's Guyana Quartet; the writings of the Oakland Black Panthers-- particularly Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver; the gay novella Just Being Guys Together; and Lionheart Gal, a collection of patois testimonials assembled by Sistren, a radical Jamaican women's theater group active in the 1980s.