The slave sublime: the language of violence in Caribbean literature and music
The slave sublime: a Jamaican case study -- A trickster's challenge to rationalism: Andrew Salkey's discourse of the imagination in "A quality of violence" -- Language and social death: boundary-crossing and the grammar of violence in NourbeSe Philip's prose and poetry -- Th...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
[2022]
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| In: | Jahr: 2022 |
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| Bestand in Tübingen: | In Tübingen vorhanden. UB: KB 21 A 2379 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The slave sublime: a Jamaican case study -- A trickster's challenge to rationalism: Andrew Salkey's discourse of the imagination in "A quality of violence" -- Language and social death: boundary-crossing and the grammar of violence in NourbeSe Philip's prose and poetry -- The changing same for I-an-I in Babylon: Bob Marley's representations of the slave sublime in postcolonial Jamaica -- The real (and) ghetto life: excess violence and Manichean delirium in Marlon James's "A brief history of seven killings" -- The Ogun archetype in Jamaican dancehall music: harnessing Ogun's combative will to challenge globalization's Dionysiac nature. "In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that violence repeats itself in both art and in the actions of the state, and what that means for Caribbean cultural identity"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physische Details: | 252 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781469668079 9781469668086 |
