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DREAD POETRY AND FREEDOM: LINTON KWESI JOHNSON AND THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
In Dread Poetry and Freedom David Austin explores the themes of poetry, political consciousness, and social transformation through the prism of Johnson's work. Drawing from the Bible, reggae and Rastafari, and surrealism, socialism, and feminism, and in dialogue with Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James and Walter Rodney, W.E.B. Du Bois, Johnson's work becomes a crucial point of reflection on the meaning of freedom in this masterful and rich study.
David Austin is an author and educator. He teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
Other publications from this author include:
- Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Shaping of Global Black Consciousness (2018)
- Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013)
- "Narratives of power: historical mythologies in contemporary Québec and Canada" in Race & Class, 52 (1) (2010)
- You Don't Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James (2009)