Author: Kamau BrathwaitePublisher: New Beacon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica
Author: Kamau BrathwaitePublisher: New Beacon
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Slavery Reader
Author: Gad J. HeumanPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415213035
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world.
Slaveholders in Jamaica
Author: Christer PetleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
At the end of the 18th century the Jamaican slave economy was crucial to Britain's lucrative colonial enterprise. This book looks at the lives of British West Indian slaveholders and their efforts to defend and justify an institution that has cast a dark shadow over modern notions of race, cultural authority and freedom.
Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom
Author: Kathleen E. A. MonteithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"Jamaica's rich history has been the subject of many books, articles and papers. This collection of eighteen original essays considers aspects of Jamaican history not covered in more general histories of the island, and illluminates more recent developments in Jamaican and West Indian history." "Unique in its interdisciplinary approach, the collection emphasizes the relevance of history to everyday life and the development of a national identity, culture and economy. The essays are organized in three sections: Historiography and Sources; Society, Culture and Heritage; and Economy, Labour and Politics, with contributions from scholars in the Departments of History, Literatures in English and Political Sciences and from the Main Library, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica." -- Book Jacket.
The Jamaica Reader
Author: Diana PatonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478013095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most important historical, cultural, and political events and aspects are largely unknown beyond the island. The Jamaica Reader presents a panoramic history of the country, from its precontact indigenous origins to the present. Combining more than one hundred classic and lesser-known texts that include journalism, lyrics, memoir, and poetry, the Reader showcases myriad voices from over the centuries: the earliest published black writer in the English-speaking world; contemporary dancehall artists; Marcus Garvey; and anonymous migrant workers. It illuminates the complexities of Jamaica's past, addressing topics such as resistance to slavery, the modern tourist industry, the realities of urban life, and the struggle to find a national identity following independence in 1962. Throughout, it sketches how its residents and visitors have experienced and shaped its place in the world. Providing an unparalleled look at Jamaica's history, culture, and politics, this volume is an ideal companion for anyone interested in learning about this magnetic and dynamic nation.
The Sun and the Drum
Author: Leonard E. BarrettPublisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Contested Bodies
Author: Sasha TurnerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081229405X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children. Through powerful stories that place the reader on the ground in plantation-era Jamaica, Contested Bodies reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children, which put them at odds not only with their owners but sometimes with abolitionists and enslaved men. Turner argues that, as the source of new labor, these women created rituals, customs, and relationships around pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing that enabled them at times to dictate the nature and pace of their work as well as their value. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including plantation records, abolitionist treatises, legislative documents, slave narratives, runaway advertisements, proslavery literature, and planter correspondence—Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica.
Roots of Jamaican Culture
Author: Mervyn C. AlleynePublisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745303697
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
Author: Michael A. BucknorPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136821740
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work. The volume is divided into six sections that consider: the foremost figures of the Anglophone Caribbean literary tradition and a history of literary critical debate textual turning points, identifying key moments in both literary and critical history and bringing lesser known works into context fresh perspectives on enduring and contentious critical issues including the canon, nation, race, gender, popular culture and migration new directions for literary criticism and theory, such as eco-criticism, psychoanalysis and queer studies the material dissemination of Anglophone Caribbean literature and generic interfaces with film and visual art This volume is an essential text that brings together sixty-nine entries from scholars across three generations of Caribbean literary studies, ranging from foundational critical voices to emergent scholars in the field. The volume's reach of subject and clarity of writing provide an excellent resource and springboard to further research for those working in literature and cultural studies, postcolonial and diaspora studies as well as Caribbean studies, history and geography.
Author: John Bigelow