Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice

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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. Within the Anglophone Caribbean, the Grenada Revolution represented both the potential of a break from colonial and neocolonial oppression, and hope for egalitarian change and social and political justice. The Revolution’s collapse in 1983 used to be devastating to a revolutionary generation. In hindsight, its demise signaled the top of an era of revolutionary socialist possibility. Omens of Adversity isn’t a history of the Revolution or its fallout. As an alternative, 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 potential of forgiveness. In the long run, Scott argues that the palpable sense of the neoliberal present as time stalled, without hope for emancipatory futures, has had a ways-reaching effects on how we take into consideration the character of political action and justice.
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