Abstract
This chapter interweaves the author’s experiences participating in Operation Urgent Fury (the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada) with a reflection on the significance of the operation on a personal, intellectual, and collective level. While doing so, it engages a number of voices from the region who responded to the invasion over the past three decades, such as Grenadian writers Merle Collins and Gus John; poet Lasana Sekou, from St. Martin; writers V.S. Naipaul, Fabian Badejo, and Derek Walcott; and others who voiced their opinions to the author personally. This chapter reflects on the contrast between learned versus experiential knowledge, the manner in which one’s subject-position constrains one’s perceptions of the Other, and the way in which landscape projects rich historical narratives—untranslatable and often unreadable to an interloper.
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