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:
ARTICLES
Caribbean Economic Community, by Alister McIntyre
The Consequences of Morant Bay, by Roy Augier
POLEMIC
A Visit to Cuba, by George Beckford
CONFERENCE REPORT
Shaping the Future of the West Indies – Resume
Conference 1966 – Prospectus
The West Indian People, by George Lamming
POEMS
Not From Here, by Anthony La Rose
Exodus, by Cliff Lashley
PLAY
An Aztec Play (translated), by Lloyd King
SHORT STORY
Evenin’ Time, by Hugh Gentles
REVIEWS
Guy: “Men in Prison”, by Robin MacKenzie
”Ian Fleming Introduces Jamaica”, by James Carnegie
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