Author
Lisa Tomlinson ; Lisa Tomlinson
Year
2017
Publisher
Brill
Language
English
ISBN
978-9-00433-800-5
Last Update
12-Oct-2025
Keywords
Language & Literature
This study examines the African-Jamaican aesthetic impulse in diasporic dub poetry and fiction paying particular attention to how these art forms have developed and been mediated in Canadian and British contexts. More specifically, I explore how African-Jamaican cultural productions of the diaspora are employed as a means of recovering, rearticulating, and remaking cultural identities that have been disrupted by histories of slavery and colonial conquest. My research demonstrates how the cultivation of an African-Jamaican aesthetic plays a key role in inspiring community activism, creating cultural spaces, and forging and sustaining cultural identities in Caribbean diasporas. In making these claims, I...
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