Repeating Islands – It was one of Caribbean economist Norman Girvan’s final requests to his family: Make the archive of New World Quarterly, a foundational journal that appeared between 1963 and 1972, available to younger generations. Accordingly the Girvan family, working with Kari Levitt and Judith Wedderburn, has digitized all 14 issues of this postcolonial gem of a publication, (…) “Our thoughts are that a digital publication is a contemporary gesture in the spirit and scope of The New World community, residing in a space with open access to all,” said the Girvan family’s statement. Norman Girvan, along with Lloyd Best, George Beckford and other academic activists had launched the journal in the early 60s. A valuable archive of articles on everything from the geopolitics of the Anglophone Caribbean region to agriculture in China, the sugar industry, Sports, Visual Arts, Literature, Caribbean integration the journal represented in its pages the “birth, flourishing and eventual demise of one of the region’s most influential intellectual movements,” the New World Group.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Editorial Statement
ARTICLES
Issues in the Jamaica-Windward Islands Banana War, by George Beckford
Dependence as an Obstacle to Growth: Puerto Rico, by Eduardo Seda Bonilla
Honours and Paquotille, by Adrian Espinet
Three Cases of Constitutionalism and Cuckoo Politics: Ceylon, British Guyana and Grenada, by Archie Singham
Gary Sobers and the Brisbane Revolution, by Woodville Marshall
POLEMIC
Chaguaramas to Slavery?, by Lloyd Best
SEMINAR REPORT
Past History and Present Planning in the West Indies, by Elsa Goveia
POEMS
Malcolm X, by Sylvia Winter Carew
Bureaucracy, by Syl Lowhar
REVIEWS
Cuba: The Economic and Social Revolution, by Manuel Maldonado-Denis
Party Politics in the West Indies, by Roy Augier
Rio Sin Cauce, by Gabriel Coulthard
The Knights Companions: Ganesh, Biswas & Stone, by Wilfred Cartey
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