The Slave Sublime
The Language of Violence in Caribbean Literature and Music
By Stacy J. Lettman
266 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 1 halftone
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6808-6
Published: June 2022 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6807-9
Published: June 2022 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-6809-3
Published: May 2022 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-6254-9
Published: May 2022
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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.
About the Author
Stacy J. Lettman is assistant professor of English at Florida Atlantic University.
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“This is an exceptional work of scholarship, rich with insightful and delightful readings of Caribbean poetry, Jamaican fiction, and reggae and dancehall music. Its depth and breadth are remarkable. Given Jamaica’s notoriety in the top ranks of lists of the world’s most violent countries and the ongoing debates about violence in its popular music cultures as the possible source of its outsize violence, this book’s topic, arguments, and readings are timely and of signal importance in properly contextualizing contemporary phenomena and shifting the discourse inside and outside Jamaica.”—Njelle Hamilton, University of Virginia
“An exciting and highly engaging book that explores literary, philosophical, and musical works in order to challenge the Western tradition’s assumptions about slaves, slavery, freedom, and the sublime. In particular, Lettman’s examination of the political languages of violence in the modern Caribbean and their aesthetic manifestations is probing, illuminating, and provocative. Go and read this book!”—Neil Roberts, Williams College