Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: These notes sketch, in a preliminary way, a gradually evolving project that literary scholar Donette Francis and I have initiated-though I hasten to say that I do not claim here to speak for her.Presumably we have neither identical backgrounds nor views, but we share enough, I believe, in some of the sources of our discontent and intellectual traditions, to motivate the resonance and drive the rhythms of our collaboration.The project centers on the cultural-political historiography of Jamaica, and on our sense that it stands in need of collective interrogation and perhaps also collective revision.It may well be, come to think of it, that the cultural-political historiography of the Caribbean as a whole-francophone and hispanophone as much as anglophone, nonsovereign no less than sovereign, and regional as well as diasporic-stands in need of such interrogation and revision.But Jamaica is what we know, in an internal and steadfast way, within a structure of feeling as much as a structure of cognition, and therefore it is with Jamaica that we are immediately concerned.
Author: David Scott
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2765672035