Bookshelf 2023: "animated essays"

We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Decolonising Essays, 1967-1984, by Sylvia Wynter [...] presents nineteen of Wynter’s early anticolonial writings, ranging from essays on the initial Spanish colonization of the Caribbean and the establishment of a Western world system to studies of Lady Nugent’s journal, Jamaican Jonkunnu, C.L.R. James’s cricket writing, Chinua Achebe, Bob Marley and Rastafari, and much else. [...] Her consistent “gaze from below” animates this series of essays, which grew out of her childhood and adolescence in the maelstrom of Jamaica as it struggled to shake off its colonial past.