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The essays in this collection range across the politics, literature, the visual arts, social commentary, memoirs and tributes. They encompass Guyana and the wider Caribbean, inclluding the suicide of the Grenadian revolution and the American invasion (of which Roopnaraine was an intimate witness).
For the past thirty or more years, Rupert Roopnaraine has played a leading part in a Guyanese battle for an inclusionary democracy, social justice, racial harmony and the creation of a decolonised civil society with culture and the imagination at hits heart. What he has stood for is clearly demonstrated in the range and style of these essays. They reveal a passionate enemy of authoritarianism and ethnic chauvinism (including, for instance, the continuing disrespect shown to Guyana's Amerindian population) but they also show a man who can respond to the human qualities of his political opponents.
Essays on Walter Rodney, the republican ideal, Cheddi Jaga, Desmond Hoyte, Martin Carter, Edgar Mittelholzer, AJ Seymour and Kyk-over-Al, the lexicographer Richard Allsop, and the artists Hawley Harris, Philip Moore, Winston Strick, Ras Akyem, and Stanley Greaves, reveal yet again that there are few Caribbean critics who write with such grace and insight. Indeed, one sees in the qualities of Roopnaraine's even occasional pieces the presence of a Caribbean Hazlitt, with the same radical instincts, sharp antennae for the spirit of the age and a prose style that is both elegant and intensely alive.
The presence and values of three close comrades - Martin Carter, Walter Rodney and Eusi Kwayana - infuse this collection as the touchstones to which Rubert Roopnaraine constantly returns as evidence of the capacity of Guyana and the Caribbean for a politics that has intellectual acumen, imagination and moral passion at its centre.
For the past thirty or more years, Rupert Roopnaraine has played a leading part in a Guyanese battle for an inclusionary democracy, social justice, racial harmony and the creation of a decolonised civil society with culture and the imagination at hits heart. What he has stood for is clearly demonstrated in the range and style of these essays. They reveal a passionate enemy of authoritarianism and ethnic chauvinism (including, for instance, the continuing disrespect shown to Guyana's Amerindian population) but they also show a man who can respond to the human qualities of his political opponents.
Essays on Walter Rodney, the republican ideal, Cheddi Jaga, Desmond Hoyte, Martin Carter, Edgar Mittelholzer, AJ Seymour and Kyk-over-Al, the lexicographer Richard Allsop, and the artists Hawley Harris, Philip Moore, Winston Strick, Ras Akyem, and Stanley Greaves, reveal yet again that there are few Caribbean critics who write with such grace and insight. Indeed, one sees in the qualities of Roopnaraine's even occasional pieces the presence of a Caribbean Hazlitt, with the same radical instincts, sharp antennae for the spirit of the age and a prose style that is both elegant and intensely alive.
The presence and values of three close comrades - Martin Carter, Walter Rodney and Eusi Kwayana - infuse this collection as the touchstones to which Rubert Roopnaraine constantly returns as evidence of the capacity of Guyana and the Caribbean for a politics that has intellectual acumen, imagination and moral passion at its centre.
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Rupert Roopnaraine returned to Guyana from an academic post in the USA to join the Working People's Alliance in 1977, and quickly became one of the joint leaders of the party with Walter Rodney and others - a position he has held to this day. He has been a membr of the Guyanese parliament for many years, with a reputation for the incorruptible representation of people across all racial groups. He was the prime ministerial candidate for the opposition coalition, APNU, at the last elections.
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