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Noises in the Blood : Orality, Gender, and the"Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture /
The language of Jamaican popular culture-its folklore, idioms, music, poetry, song-even when written is based on a tradition of sound, an orality that has often been denigrated as not worthy of serious study. In Noises in the Blood, Carolyn Cooper critically examines the dismissed discourse of Jamai...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1995.
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| Edición: | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Oral sexual discourse in Jamaican popular culture
- 'Me know no law, me know no sin': transgressive identities and the voice of innocence: the historical context
- 'Culture an tradition an birthright': proverb as metaphor in the poetry of Louise Bennett
- That cunny Jarnma oman: representations of female sensibility in the poetry of Louise Bennett
- Words unbroken by the beat: the performance poetry of Jean Binta Breeze and Mikey Smith
- Writing oral history: Sistren Theatre Collective's Lionheart Gal
- Country come to town: Michael Thelwell's The Harder They Come
- Chanting down Babylon: Bob Marley's song as literary text
- Slackness hiding from culture: erotic play in the dancehall
- From 'centre' to 'margin': turning history upside down
- Appendix 1. Proverbs from Louise Bennett
- Appendix 2. Jamaican proverbs: a gender perspective.