The African-Jamaican aesthetic : : cultural retention and transformation across borders /

The African-Jamaican aesthetic : : cultural retention and transformation across borders / / by Lisa Tomlinson.

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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Superior document:Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; volume 196
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Tomlinson, Lisa,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill Rodopi,, [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures ; 196.
Physical Description:1 online resource (234 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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