Arts for the 21st Century

Philip Nanton

Philip Nanton

Philip Nanton is a scholarly writer and published poet. He is Honorary Research Associate at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely in regional and metropolitan magazines and has performed his work at festivals in the Caribbean and internationally. His biography of Shake Keane - Riff: The Shake Keane Story - will be published by Papillote Press in December 2020. Some of his work is on his website www.philipnanton.com 

CARIBBEAN LITERARY EPISTEMOLOGY AS FRONTIER TWO CARIBBEAN POETS AND THINKERS— KAMAU BRATHWAITE AND DEREK WALCOTT

“Language is the perfect instrument of empire.” —Bishop of Avila to Queen Isabella of Castile, 1492 “Language is also the perfect instrument of anti-imperialism.” —Paula Burnet In the Caribbean context in which my essay will be situated, knowledge production presents a particular kind of conundrum. European thinkers have for a long time been at the heart of social theory—Marx, Weber, Durkheim—as well as those of more recent vin- tage—Foucault, Habermas, Giddens, Derrida—and provide a foundation for contempo- rary analysts in the framing of their scholarship. While their work is rich and important, it is not without its problems.

The Last Gig

He eats like a bird now. His back aches and so does his belly. He can recite a catalogue of established pains working up from his wobbly knees all the way to the dull ache in his mouth from the blasted dentures that grin at him each night from the bedside glass table. What’s new?
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