The Slave Sublime : The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music /

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"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lettman, Stacy J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Violence in music.
Violence in literature.
Music.
Jamaican literature.
Caribbean literature.
Musique > Caraïbes (Region) > Histoire et critique.
Musique > Jamaïque > Histoire et critique.
Litterature jamaïquaine (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Violence dans la musique.
Violence dans la litterature.
Music > Jamaica > History and criticism.
Music > Caribbean Area > History and criticism.
Jamaican literature > History and criticism.
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Jamaica.
Caribbean Area.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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