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Rex N - Rex Nettlefold: Selected Speeches (Hardcover)
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Rex N - Rex Nettlefold: Selected Speeches (Hardcover)
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Social and cultural historian, political analyst, trade union
educator, artist, expert on development and cultural dynamics, man
of letters - these represent only a few of the areas of expertise
of Rex Nettleford, one of the Caribbean's finest scholars. This
carefully selected collection of 42 of Nettleford's speeches can
only provide a mere glimpse of his formidable intellect and his
contribution to the search for and validation of a Caribbean
cultural identity. Known affectionately in academic, cultural,
literary and artistic circles the world over, simply as Rex, this
informal and unpretentious designation is used to capture the
essence of the man whose ideas and speeches can be said to
collectively represent the 'Triumph of the Caribbean Spirit and
Imagination'. Readers who have had the privilege of hearing one or
more of Rex Nettleford's speeches will agree with Barry Chevannes
that 'Reading Rex Nettleford is not quite the same as hearing
him...even when the ideas are the same...to hear Rex Nettleford
address an audience is to be treated to a performance.' Of
Nettleford, Chevannes writes: 'As a Caribbean man, Nettleford
himself embodies the multilayered complexity which he insists is
characteristic of the region, a five-foot eleven black man with
rhythm in his steps and intertexuality in his living, who exercises
the powers of his creative imagination to help his fellow tenants
hold on to their legacy of a sense of self, for which monumental
work he is a much revered, much appreciated voice teaching lessons
for life on all the continents tenanted by homo sapiens.
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