The African-Jamaican Aesthetic Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders
The African-Jamaican Aesthetic' explores the ways in which diasporic African-Jamaican writers employ cultural referents aesthetically in their literary works to challenge dominant European literary discourses; articulate concerns about racialization and belonging; and preserve and enact cultura...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2017, 2017
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| Series: | Cross/Cultures Ser
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and index
- The African-Jamaican Aesthetic: Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1 Work Songs, Proverbs, and Storytelling in Jamaican Literary Tradition; 2 The African-Jamaican Aesthetic, Pan-Africanism, and Decolonization in Early Jamaican Literature; 3 Crossing Over to the Diaspora: The Reggae Aesthetic, Dub, and the Literary Diaspora; 4 Gendering Dub Culture Across Diaspora: Jamaican Female Dub Poets in Canada and England; 5 Home Away from Home: The African-Jamaican Aesthetic in Diasporic Novels; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index