Book Reviews


 One final comment is needed. This review appears in
Sargasso, admittedly a journal of literature, language,
and culture and not political science. Nothing could be
more appropriate. It is not only that the Grenada Affair
has generated calypsos, plays such as Revo by Shango
Baku (Trinidad), a Clint Eastwood movie, and will no
doubt influence the Caribbean literary scene in the
future. More important is the fact that Gordon Lewis
knows World and Caribbean literature and draws political
metaphors from it. How else can one account for
descriptions of the actors in the Grenadian drama in such
eloquent yet defining terms:

 They became, at one and the same time, as if in
 a Shakespearean historical drama, the dramatic
 personae of the tragedy and the embodiment of
 impersonal forces which ultimately they could
 not control.

To describe human action and foibles in such terms is to
demonstrate a respect for and appreciation of human
existence and creativity that has been too often lacking
in the Caribbean and the United States in the unfinished
Grenada episode.



 Lowell Fiet
 University of Puerto Rico
 Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico


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