The Resource Jamaica's Difficult subjects : negotiating sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean literature and criticism, Sheri-Marie Harrison
Jamaica's Difficult subjects : negotiating sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean literature and criticism, Sheri-Marie Harrison
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- Summary
- Recognizing that in the contemporary postcolonial moment, national identity and cultural nationalism are no longer the primary modes of imagining sovereignty, Sheri-Marie Harrison argues that postcolonial critics must move beyond an identity-based orthodoxy as they examine problems of sovereignty. In Jamaica{u2019}s Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism, Harrison describes what she calls 2difficult subjects3{u2014}subjects that disrupt essentialized notions of identity as equivalent to sovereignty. She argues that these subjects function as a call for postcolonial critics to broaden their critical horizons beyond the usual questions of national identity and exclusion/inclusion. Harrison turns to Jamaican novels, creative nonfiction, and films from the 1960s to the present and demonstrates how they complicate standard notions of the relationship between national identity and sovereignty. She constructs a lineage between the difficult subjects in classic Caribbean texts like Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and The Harder they Come by Perry Henzell and contemporary writing by Marlon James and Patricia Powell. What results is a sweeping new history of Caribbean literature and criticism that reconfigures how we understand both past and present writing. Jamaica{u2019}s Difficult Subjects rethinks how sovereignty is imagined, organized, and policed in the postcolonial Caribbean, opening new possibilities for reading multiple generations of Caribbean writing. --Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Jamaica's Difficult subjects : negotiating sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean literature and criticism
- Title
- Jamaica's Difficult subjects
- Title remainder
- negotiating sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean literature and criticism
- Statement of responsibility
- Sheri-Marie Harrison
- Subject
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- Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Jamaican literature
- Jamaican literature -- History and criticism
- Motion pictures
- Caribbean Area
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Sovereignty in literature
- Sovereignty in literature
- Motion pictures -- Caribbean Area
- Caribbean literature (English)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Recognizing that in the contemporary postcolonial moment, national identity and cultural nationalism are no longer the primary modes of imagining sovereignty, Sheri-Marie Harrison argues that postcolonial critics must move beyond an identity-based orthodoxy as they examine problems of sovereignty. In Jamaica{u2019}s Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism, Harrison describes what she calls 2difficult subjects3{u2014}subjects that disrupt essentialized notions of identity as equivalent to sovereignty. She argues that these subjects function as a call for postcolonial critics to broaden their critical horizons beyond the usual questions of national identity and exclusion/inclusion. Harrison turns to Jamaican novels, creative nonfiction, and films from the 1960s to the present and demonstrates how they complicate standard notions of the relationship between national identity and sovereignty. She constructs a lineage between the difficult subjects in classic Caribbean texts like Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and The Harder they Come by Perry Henzell and contemporary writing by Marlon James and Patricia Powell. What results is a sweeping new history of Caribbean literature and criticism that reconfigures how we understand both past and present writing. Jamaica{u2019}s Difficult Subjects rethinks how sovereignty is imagined, organized, and policed in the postcolonial Caribbean, opening new possibilities for reading multiple generations of Caribbean writing. --Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1979-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Harrison, Sheri-Marie
- Dewey number
- 820.9/97292
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR9265.05
- LC item number
- H37 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Jamaican literature
- Sovereignty in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Caribbean literature (English)
- Motion pictures
- Caribbean literature (English)
- Jamaican literature
- Motion pictures
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Sovereignty in literature
- Caribbean Area
- Label
- Jamaica's Difficult subjects : negotiating sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean literature and criticism, Sheri-Marie Harrison
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 876900911
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 192 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814212639
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2014013473
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)876900911
- Label
- Jamaica's Difficult subjects : negotiating sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean literature and criticism, Sheri-Marie Harrison
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 876900911
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 192 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814212639
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2014013473
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (OCoLC)876900911
Subject
- Caribbean literature (English) -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Jamaican literature
- Jamaican literature -- History and criticism
- Motion pictures
- Caribbean Area
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Sovereignty in literature
- Sovereignty in literature
- Motion pictures -- Caribbean Area
- Caribbean literature (English)
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