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Recognizing That In The Contemporary Postcolonial Moment, National Identity And Cultural Nationalism Are No Longer The Primary Modes Of Imagining Sovereignty, Sheri-marie Harrison Argues That Postcolonial Critics Must Move Beyond An Identity-based Orthodoxy As They Examine Problems Of Sovereignty. In Jamaica's Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty In Anglophone Caribbean Literature And Criticism, Harrison Describes What She Calls Difficult Steps - Subjects That Disrupt Essentialized Notions Of Identity As Equivalent To Sovereignty. She Argues That These Subjects Function As A Call For Postcolonial Critics To Broaden Their Critical Horizons Beyond The Usual Questions Of National Identity And Exclusion/inclusion. Harrison Turns To Jamaican Novels, Creative Nonfiction, And Films From The 1960s To The Present And Demonstrates How They Complicate Standard Notions Of The Relationship Between National Identity And Sovereignty. She Constructs A Lineage Between The Difficult Subjects In Classic Caribbean Texts Like Wide Sargasso Sea By Jean Rhys And The Harder They Come By Perry Henzell And Contemporary Writing By Marlon James And Patricia Powell. What Results Is A Sweeping New Histor

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Author

Harrison, Sheri-marie , 1979- (author.)

Publisher

The Ohio State University Press,

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814212639

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities