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The Slave Sublime : The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music
Author
Title
The Slave Sublime : The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music / Stacy J. Lettman.
ISBN
9781469668109
9781469668079
9781469668086
9781469668093
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (266 pages).
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Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
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.
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Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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