Citizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789766404581)

Citizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture is the first book-length study of the interaction of culture, politics and society in Jamaica's formative postcolonial moment, the years between 1972 and 1980. Through examining literary and other texts from and about the period, Rachel Mordecai argues that the 1970s were defined by the explosion into the public sphere of a long-simmering dispute over the substance and limits of Jamaican citizenship, in which citizenship claims and counter-claims were advanced and contested via the symbolic deployment and re-configuration of race, class, and gender identities.

Author: Rachel L. Mordecai
ISBN-10: 9766404585
ISBN-13: 9789766404581
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2014
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d
Award: PROSE - Honorable Mention