Slave Sublime (eBook)

The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music

Stacy J. Lettman (Autor)

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2022
266 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6809-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J. Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican text and music, how that violence repeats itself in both art and in the actions of the state, and what that means for Caribbean cultural identity. Jamaica is known for having one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, a fact that Lettman links to remnants of the plantation eranamely the economic dispossession and structural violence that still haunt the island. Lettman contends that the impact of colonial violence is so embedded in the language of Jamaican literature and music that violence has become a separate language itself, one that paradoxically can offer cultural modes of resistance. Lettman codifies Paul Gilroy's concept of the "e;slave sublime"e; as a remix of Kantian philosophy through a Caribbean lens to take a broad view of Jamaica, the Caribbean, and their political and literary history that challenges Eurocentric ideas of slavery, Blackness, and resistance. Living at the intersection of philosophy, literary and musical analysis, and postcolonial theory, this book sheds new light on the lingering ghosts of the plantation and slavery in the Caribbean.

Autor

Stacy J. Lettman is associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: a brief history of seven killings • Affect • Babylon system and Rastafari beliefs • beauty and the sublime • Bob Marley • Caribbean Literature • Caribbean literature and madness • Cartesian dualism • Colonial violence and the sublime • dancehall music and violence • ghetto and violence • Globalization and neoliberalism • Immanuel Kant and the sublime • Jamaican dancehall music • Language and Violence • literary realism and violence • Marlon James • Mavado • Mediation • Ogun • paradigmatic axis of language • performance and violence • representation and violence • semiotics of violence • slavery and aesthetics • slavery in the Caribbean • social death • sublime and the imagination • transhistorical violence • Trauma and Violence • violence and aesthetics • violence in Jamaica
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6809-2 / 1469668092
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6809-3 / 9781469668093