...Nicole Phillip Small Axe Incorporated 2007 Women in the Grenada Revolution, 1979–1983 Nicole Phillip I The year 1951 is synonymous in Grenada with the words strike, riot, and revolution. It saw the rise of Eric Matthew Gairy who led the first massive strike action...

...Laurie R. Lambert This essay responds to the essays by Belinda Deneen Wallace and Randi Gill-Sadler on the author’s Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution (2020). It uses the concepts of pushing-into-consciousness and narrative dulling , introduced by Wallace...

... of the Grenada Revolution. As it highlights Lambert’s attention to Joan Purcell’s truncated temporal framing of the Grenada Revolution, the essay offers a close reading of Phyllis Coard’s memoir to elaborate the significance of temporality in literary representations of the revolution and to question how...

... politics and society. Obika Gray and Maziki Thame contributed review essays, tackling many of the issues explored in the book, including the Caribbean black power movement, the Grenada Revolution and its demise, the contemporary state of Jamaican politics, Caribbean intellectual traditions...

...Belinda Deneen Wallace This essay reflects on Laurie Lambert’s study Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution (2020), which investigates contemporary Caribbean literary reimaginings of the Grenadian Revolution and makes visible how that history impacts Grenada today...

...Shalini Puri Reflecting on the methodology for the author's forthcoming book, The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory , this essay argues for the importance of fieldwork in Caribbean literary and cultural studies and contributes to the development of a shared public...

... in Contemporary Historiography Ron Sookram Historical writings on Grenada have so far concentrated mainly on the 1979–1983 revolution. Other areas of research and writing include: Grenada’s constitutional history, emigration and migration, religion and culture (though with an Afrocentric slant...

... or presumption? Was it the familiar elision and disavowal that so marks and mars modern Caribbean politics? For the real question, it seems to me, is what we—Caribbeans as a whole—have learned in the twenty-six years since the collapse of the Grenada Revolution and the US invasion...

... monographs about Grenada: Shalini Puri’s The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and David Scott’s Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice . Like A Brief History , the titles announce a preoccupation with temporality, and each text prioritizes questions...

.... 7 See Audre Lorde, “Grenada Revisited: An Interim Report,” in Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (New York: Random House, 1984), 176–90; and Andaiye, “The Grenada Revolution, the Caribbean Left, and the Regional Women’s Movement: Preliminary Notes on One Journey” (2010), in The Point...

... Edward L. Cox 17 Women in the Grenada Revolution, 1979–1983 Nicole Phillip 39 Grenada, Naipaul, and Ground Provision David Omowalé Franklyn...

... reworking of the history of the Grenada revolution and its aftermath is only part of a web of stories often told piecemeal, in flashbacks and flashforwards, so that major narrative strands emerge slowly, as if by accretion. Although this technique is comparatively unusual in written...

... was then deploying his most radical rhetoric, was in fact on the verge of starting Jamaica’s four-decade long series of IMF agreements. Part of my remit at WMR was to explain the Grenada Revolution. I had traveled to Grenada in 1982 to interview Maurice Bishop, resulting in a report published in an issue...

...: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (2003) and The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics (2011). Her forthcoming book The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory studies the conflicting cultural memories of the Grenada Revolution as they surface in the arts...

... in hand, the global historical ground beneath his feet was giving way—the heyday of the project of the Left was already over. Not least, the violent implosion of the Grenada Revolution in October 1983 (about which he has also written) forced Charles to recognize that the old game of radicalism...

...- tory of national and social liberation in the Caribbean and beyond. ; e well-known institutional explanations for these undoubtedly have value but leave many questions unanswered. My own practical and theoretical engagements with the Grenada revolution are as good a starting...

... in the Grenada revolution, he points out that the countries' close relationship put Grenada at odds with the United States (118). Jamaica too suffered at the hands of the United States as a result of its relationship with Cuba and its flirtation with Left politics in the 1970s. Cuba's own revolution, as we know...

... appointed attorney general to the People’s Revolutionary Government in May 1983 and was at work writing the new constitution when the revolution imploded and the United States invaded. He had gotten out of Grenada only because he was in a civil service and not a political appointment, and thus his name...

... and the ruin of the Grenada Revolution almost exactly a decade and a half later, in October 1983, there stretches a shallow grave in which are buried the radical postcolonial hopes of a whole genera- tion: the Caribbean generation of 1968. Born for the most part in the aftermath...

.... She is associate professor of African and African American studies at Fordham University. Her first book, Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution (2020), examines the gendered implications of political trauma in literature on Grenada. B eatriz L lenín -F igueroa...