Culture, Language and Revolution in Grenada

Authors

  • Gail R. Pool University of New Brunswick

Abstract

In this article the Grenadian revolution of 1979-83 is examined. While Grenada had been a colony of France and Great Britain, it was the United States that maintained its hegemony over Grenada and the rest of the Caribbean in the 20th century. In spite of dominance by the world's foremost power, counter-hegemonic cultures may be seen throughout the region. During the revolution Grenadian culture and language were used by the political leadership to help transform society. The dialectic between language, culture and ideology is complicated by the fact that hegemonic and counter-hegemonic cultures are themselves the products of each other. It is concluded that for revolutions to succeed they should be based on counter-hegemonic culture but they also need new forms of understanding, which are often based in hegemonic culture.

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Author Biography

Gail R. Pool, University of New Brunswick

Gail Pool received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from McGill. He has conducted fieldwork in Grenada and New Brunswick. His monograph, Workers' Control on the Railroad, is published by the Canadian Committee on Labour History. Dr. Pool is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Brunswick.

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Published

2022-06-02

How to Cite

Pool, G. R. (2022). Culture, Language and Revolution in Grenada. Anthropologica, 36(1), 73–107. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/1970

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Vol. 36 No. 1 (1994)

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