The slave sublime : the language of violence in Caribbean literature and music / Stacy J. Lettman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lettman, Stacy J., author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in literature.

Violence in music.

Caribbean literature--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Jamaican literature--History and criticism.

Jamaican literature.

Music--Caribbean Area--History and criticism.

Music.

Music--Jamaica--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Contents:

The slave sublime: a Jamaican case study

A trickster's challenge to rationalism: Andrew Salkey's discourse of the imagination in "A quality of violence"

Language and social death: boundary-crossing and the grammar of violence in NourbeSe Philip's prose and poetry

The changing same for I-an-I in Babylon: Bob Marley's representations of the slave sublime in postcolonial Jamaica

The real (and) ghetto life: excess violence and Manichean delirium in Marlon James's "A brief history of seven killings"

The Ogun archetype in Jamaican dancehall music: harnessing Ogun's combative will to challenge globalization's Dionysiac nature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed June 7, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Lettman, Stacy J. Slave sublime.

ISBN:

9781469668109

1469668106

9781469668093

1469668092

Publisher Number:

40031121367

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.