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:
CARIBBEAN
The Spanish-speaking Intelligentsia in the Caribbean, by Manuel Maldonado-Denis
Pidgins and Creoles, East and West, by Wally Thompson
EDUCATION
The Teaching of English & Bibliography for Teachers, by John Figueroa
The New Mathematics, by Ian Isaacs
Aims of Education in Jamaica, by Alex Gradussov
Manpower and Planning in Guyana, by Kassim Bacchus
POLEMIC
”Politics in West Africa”, by Ahmed Mohiddin
POEMS
Two Love Poems, by Anthony La Rose
The Last Minute of Hart Crane, by Samuel Hazo
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