L’artiste, le savant et le politique dans la Caraïbe anglophone diasporique : de l’écriture réparatrice à l’action pour une transformation sociale réparatrice

This paper discloses the features of the twentieth century Anglophone Caribbean cultural transformation which results in the contemporary CARICOM action for reparations. It mobilizes a multidisciplinary approach combining literary and artistic history, social and economic history, political history, history of thought. It first analyses the twentieth century literary construction of Caribbean cultural and historical memory in Caribbean fiction writing. It shows how criticism and the writers own theorisation on their creations complement the fictional text in the process inventing the Caribbean subject. This study then discloses the way in which the contribution of caribbeanist scholars complemented the literary construction of the Caribbean subject, providing 21st century Anglophone Caribbean political leaders with the cultural basis on which their 21st century political action grounds. It traces the process resulting in the contemporary action for reparation from the origins of a postcolumbian thinking to the emergence of a reparations discourse. It argues that this CARICOM action for reparations concretizes an original Caribbean postcolonial thought. To support, this statement this study demonstrates that this Caribbean reparation thought emancipates from former postcolonial theorisations on hybridity to think the Caribbean situation from the point of view of its multiple hybridities