'Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant' by Nick Nesbitt

Nick Nesbitt, Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory from Toussaint to Glissant. Liverpool University Press, 2013. 346 pp. ISBN: 9781846318665.

Caribbean Critique seeks to define and analyze the distinctive contribution of francophone Caribbean thinkers to perimetric Critical Theory. The book argues that their singular project has been to forge a brand of critique that, while borrowing from North Atlantic predecessors such as Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Sartre, was from the start indelibly marked by the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism.

Chapters and sections address figures such as Toussaint Louverture, Baron de Vastey, Victor Schoelcher, Aimé Césaire, René Ménil, Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé, and Edouard Glissant, while an extensive theoretical introduction defines the essential parameters of 'Caribbean Critique.'

Paget Henry's Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy

Caliban's Reason introduces the general reader to Afro-Caribbean philosophy. 

In this ground-breaking work, Paget Henry traces the roots of this discourse in traditional African thought and in the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe. Since Afro-Caribbean thought is inherently hybrid in nature and marked by strong competition between its European and African orientations, Henry highlights its four main influences--traditional African philosophy, the Afro-Christian school, Poeticism and Historicism--as his organizing principle for discussion.