...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...

..., The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2014), 7. 10 Ibid., 1 (italics in original). 11 Ibid., 7. 12 Scott, Omens of Adversity, 21. 13 Puri, The Grenada Revolution , 9, 12. 14 Scott, Omens of Adversity , 164...

... activism continued to unfold in the wake of the US invasion of Grenada in 1983, and in 1986 she left her work with the WPA to cofound Red Thread. In her 2010 essay “The Grenada Revolution, the Caribbean Left, and the Regional Women’s Movement,” Andaiye writes about the beacon of hope that Grenada...

... 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 discussed and analyzed, and the implications of its conclusion led to a shift toward self-defense by the NJM leadership and eventually to the efforts to overthrow Gairy in 1979. The Grenada Revolution (1979–83) saw young people from every Caribbean territory visiting, volunteering to work, and giving...

... of Marginal Migrations: 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...

... Shift,” 11. On the Grenada Revolution, see Charles W. Mills, “Getting Out of the Cave: Tensions between Democracy and Elitism in Marx’s Theory of Cognitive Liberation,” in Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality , 128–63. 3 See Gladstone Mills, Grist for the Mills: Reflections on a Life (Kingston...

...- 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...

... profound arrogance and sense of self-righteousness” among leadership and within embryonic parties (34). Such was the character of democratic failure in the Left, which resulted in a problem of legitimacy. Reflecting on the Grenada revolution and its failure to put in place democratic measures to legitimize...

... station on my arrival from London and driving me at a furious speed to his house to be welcomed and fed by his wife, Avis. 7 See Richard Hart, The Grenada Trial: A Travesty of Justice (Kingston: Foundation for Phyllis Coard, 1996), and The Grenada Revolution: Setting the Record Straight (London...

... 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...