Omens of adversity : tragedy, time, memory, justice
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Omens of adversity : tragedy, time, memory, justice
Duke University Press, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Omens of Adversity is a profound critique of the experience of postcolonial, postsocialist temporality. The case study at its core is the demise of the Grenada Revolution (1979-1983), and the repercussions of its collapse. In the Anglophone Caribbean, the Grenada Revolution represented both the possibility of a break from colonial and neocolonial oppression, and hope for egalitarian change and social and political justice. The Revolution's collapse in 1983 was devastating to a revolutionary generation. In hindsight, its demise signaled the end of an era of revolutionary socialist possibility. Omens of Adversity is not a history of the Revolution or its fallout. Instead, by examining related texts and phenomena, David Scott engages with broader, enduring issues of political action and tragedy, generations and memory, liberalism and transitional justice, and the possibility of forgiveness. Ultimately, Scott argues that the palpable sense of the neoliberal present as time stalled, without hope for emancipatory futures, has had far-reaching effects on how we think about the nature of political action and justice.
Table of Contents
Prologue. Aftermaths 1
Part I. Tragedy, Time
1. Revolution's Tragic Ends: Temporal Dimensions of Political Action 33
2. Stranded in the Present: The Ruins of Time 67
Part II. Memory, Justice
3. Generations of Memory: The Work of Mourning 99
4. Evading Truths: The Rhetoric of Transitional Justice 127
Epilogue. The Temporality of Forgiving 165
Acknowledgments 173
Notes 177
Index 215
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