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 cultural cont...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill Rodopi
[2017]
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009646931106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Work Songs, Proverbs, and Storytelling in Jamaican Literary Tradition
- The African-Jamaican Aesthetic, Pan-Africanism, and Decolonization in Early Jamaican Literature
- Crossing Over to the Diaspora: The Reggae Aesthetic, Dub, and the Literary Diaspora
- Gendering Dub Culture Across Diaspora: Jamaican Female Dub Poets in Canada and England
- Home Away from Home: The African-Jamaican Aesthetic in Diasporic Novels
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index.
