Alienation and Fetishization: A Critical Analysis of “‘Radicalism and Innovation’ in the New World Group’s Approach to and Rejection of Metropolitan Intellectual and Political Hegemony

The New World Group (NWG)2 comprised mainly male academics, writers, professionals and other intellectuals. Norman Girvan described NWG as a “loosely knit group of Caribbean intellectuals whose aim is to develop an indigenous view of the region” (Girvan 1971: 27). NWG did not converge around a coher...

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Main Author: Hilbourne A. Watson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Stockholm University Press 2009-12-01
Series:Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Online Access:http://www.iberoamericana.se/articles/80