The African-Jamaican Aesthetic, Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders, Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders

Author

Lisa Tomlinson ; Lisa Tomlinson

Year

2017

Publisher

Brill

Language

English

ISBN

978-9-00433-800-5

Link

Last Update

21-May-2026

Keywords

Language & Literature

Description

This study examines the African-Jamaican aesthetic impulse in diasporic dub poetry and fiction paying particular attention to how these art forms have developed and been mediated in Canadian and British contexts. More specifically, I explore how African-Jamaican cultural productions of the diaspora are employed as a means of recovering, rearticulating, and remaking cultural identities that have been disrupted by histories of slavery and colonial conquest. My research demonstrates how the cultivation of an African-Jamaican aesthetic plays a key role in inspiring community activism, creating cultural spaces, and forging and sustaining cultural identities in Caribbean diasporas. In making these claims, I...