Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and The"vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture
Autor Carolyn Cooper, Carolyn Cooper, Cooperen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 1995
Cooper's exploration of Jamaican popular culture covers a wide range of topics, including Bob Marley's lyrics, the performance poetry of Louise Bennett, Mikey Smith, and Jean Binta Breeze, Michael Thelwell's novelization of "The Harder They Come," the Sistren Theater Collective's "Lionheart Gal," and the vitality of the Jamaican DJ culture. Her analysis of this cultural "noise" conveys the powerful and evocative content of these writers and performers and emphasizes their contribution to an undervalued Caribbean identity. Making the connection between this orality, the feminized Jamaican "mother tongue," and the characterization of this culture as low or coarse or vulgar, she incorporates issues of gender into her postcolonial perspective. Cooper powerfully argues that these contemporary vernacular forms must be recognized as genuine expressions of Jamaican culture and as expressions of resistance to marginalization, racism, and sexism.
With its focus on the continuum of oral/textual performance in Jamaican culture, "Noises in the Blood," vividly and stylishly written, offers a distinctive approach to Caribbean cultural studies.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822315957
ISBN-10: 0822315955
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 160 x 237 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Duke University Press
ISBN-10: 0822315955
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 160 x 237 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Duke University Press
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""Noises in the Blood" theorizes aspects of Caribbean popular culture in an exciting and new manner."--Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Wellesley College
Notă biografică
Carolyn Cooper is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.