{"title":"December 2018","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-road-slowly","title":"The Road, Slowly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Road, Slowly\u003c\/i\u003e is the ground-breaking debut collection of love poems from award-winning Irish poet, \u003cb\u003eLiz Quirke\u003c\/b\u003e. With an assured voice, her poems weave through the experience of becoming a wife and mother in a collection of considerable lyrical beauty. Her poetry ploughs new thematic ground with confidence and subtle, delicate observations. Same-sex parenting in modern Ireland; non-biological motherhood and ways in which the past can inform the present are explored with courage. Quirke celebrates the connection between parents and children within a non-nuclear family with scalpel sharpness and a discerning eye. Her poems pay tribute to the achievement of family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These poems are full of force and mystery, a moving study of the ways in which we mother and in which we love\" - Leanne O'Sullivan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salmon Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12500381990990,"sku":"9781912561124","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/files\/9781912561124.jpg?v=1752240539"},{"product_id":"we-must-learn-to-sit-together-and-talk-about-a-little-culture","title":"We Must Learn to Sit Together and Talk About a Little Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe beginnings of the anti-colonial struggle\u003cbr\u003e\n in Jamaica coincided with the childhood and early adolescence of Sylvia\u003cbr\u003e\n Wynter, providing the motivation for this, the first phase of her \u003cbr\u003e\nimportant body of work. The essays and articles collected here go beyond\u003cbr\u003e\n making an argument against colonialism, but set out to decolonize the \u003cbr\u003e\nnature of the discourse that legitimated the imperial order. At the time\u003cbr\u003e\n of their writing, Wynter was a practicing novelist, an innovative \u003cbr\u003e\nplaywright, a scholar of Spanish Caribbean history, and an incisive \u003cbr\u003e\nliterary critic with a gift for the liveliest kind of polemics. This \u003cbr\u003e\nintellectual virtuosity is evident in these wide-ranging essays that \u003cbr\u003e\ninclude an exploration of C.L.R. James's writings on cricket, Bob Marley\u003cbr\u003e\n and the counter-cosmogony of the Rastafari, and the Spanish epoch of \u003cbr\u003e\nJamaican history (including a pioneering examination of Bernado de \u003cbr\u003e\nBalbuena, epic poet and Abbot of Jamaica 1562-1627). \u003cbr\u003e\n Across this varied range of topics, a coherent thread of argument \u003cbr\u003e\nemerges. In the vein of C. L. R. James, the imperative of her work has \u003cbr\u003e\nalways been to reconceptualize the history of the region, and therefore \u003cbr\u003e\nof the modern world, from a world-systemic perspective; that is, no \u003cbr\u003e\nlonger from the normative European perspective, but rather more \u003cbr\u003e\ninclusively, from the \"gaze from below\" of the neo-serf (i.e. Indian) \u003cbr\u003e\nand the ex-slave (i.e. Negro), which is \"the ultimate underside of \u003cbr\u003e\nmodernity.\" \u003cbr\u003e\n Strongly influenced by Marx, together with Black thinkers such as \u003cbr\u003e\nAimé Césaire, Jean Price-Mars, W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, and \u003cbr\u003e\nwith an appreciation of the insights brought by the New Studies of the \u003cbr\u003e\nSixties (including that of Black feminism), Wynter's work has sought, \u003cbr\u003e\nfrom its beginnings, to find a comprehensive explanatory system able to \u003cbr\u003e\nintegrate these knowledges born of struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peepal Tree Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12500384022606,"sku":"9781845231088","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/original_35786913-8dfd-473d-b35b-986afa7c7882.jpg?v=1752241588"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/december-2019\/sylvia-wynter.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}