Freedom, power and sovereignty : the thought of Gordon K. Lewis / edited by Brian Meeks, Jermaine McCalpin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction – The Scholar as Optimist / Brian Meeks -- PART 1 IN THE VANGUARD OF CARIBBEAN THOUGHT -- 1. Deciphering the Marx-Burke Counterpoint in Gordon K. Lewis’s Work / Anthony P. Maingot -- 2. Gordon Lewis and the Writing of Afro-Caribbean Political Thought / Paget Henry -- 3. ‘An Extended Debate with Europe?’: G.K. Lewis, Denis Benn, Paget Henry, and the Epistemological Challenge in the Writing of Caribbean Political Thought / Tennyson S.D. Joseph -- 4. A Lens of a Different Colour: Gordon K. Lewis, Postmodernity and Cuban Antislavery Narratives / Claudette M. Williams -- 5. Opening the Canon: The Place of Theology in Caribbean Intellectual Thought / Delroy A. Reid-Salmon -- 6. Toward Reconstituting Caribbean Identity Discourse from within the Dutch Caribbean Island of Cura cao / Rose Mary Allen -- PART 2 RETHINKING CARIBBEAN POLITICS -- 7. The ‘Slums of Empire’ and Gordon K. Lewis: Reflections on Decolonization and Sovereignty in the Caribbean / Jessica Byron -- 8. Some Perspectives on Gordon Lewis’s Legacy in the Understanding of Regionalism / Edward Greene -- 9. The Reshaping of Freedom and Power in Puerto Rico: Community-based Social Change in the Era of Neoliberal Reforms / Rafael A. Boglio Mart inez -- 10. Gordon Lewis and the Mass Suicide in Jonestown, Guyana 1978 / Ralph Premdas.

Homage to Gordon K. Lewis (1919-1991), Gordon K. Lewis (1919-1991) was a leading expert on the Caribbean. Lewis published many important books and articles on the Caribbean including Puerto Rico: freedom and power in the Caribbean (1962), The growth of the modern West Indies (1968), Main currents in Caribbean thought (1983) and Grenada: the jewel despoiled (1987), among others. "From his arrival in Puerto Rico in the 1950s, until his death in the early 1990s, Lewis, through his numerous publications, established himself as a Caribbean thinker. The breadth of Lewis's scholarship is revealed in these ten chapters covering his work on the Caribbean. From concepts of sovereignty and regional integration, to the nature of democracy in the contemporary Caribbean, the influence of African thought and the African Diaspora on the development of a Caribbean intellectual tradition, the influence of theology and the pursuit of a democratic socialism for the Caribbean, G.K. Lewis's work is analysed, admired and critiqued by the contributors."

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