{"product_id":"jamaicas-difficult-subjects-negotiating-sovereignty-in-anglophone-caribbean-literature-and-criticism-9780814252918","title":"Jamaica's Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eJamaica's Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e, Harrison describes what she calls \"difficult subjects\"--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 \u003ci\u003eWide Sargasso Sea \u003c\/i\u003eby Jean Rhys and \u003ci\u003eThe Harder they Come\u003c\/i\u003e by Perry Henzell and contemporary writing by Marlon James and Patricia Powell. What results is a sweeping new history of Caribbean literature and criticism that reconfigures how we understand both past and present writing. \u003ci\u003eJamaica's Difficult Subjects \u003c\/i\u003erethinks how sovereignty is imagined, organized, and policed in the postcolonial Caribbean, opening new possibilities for reading multiple generations of Caribbean writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sheri-Marie Harrison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814252918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSheri-Marie Harrison is assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43150674493555,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":49.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_43bef49d-213c-453f-90af-cb51e00f7a8b.jpg?v=1750769406","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/jamaicas-difficult-subjects-negotiating-sovereignty-in-anglophone-caribbean-literature-and-criticism-9780814252918","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}