Nadi Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadi Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadi |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS N |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dangerous Disturbances
This essay examines Carolyn Cooper's intellectual project as a practice of noisy disturbance that anchors her conceptualization of Jamaican literary and cultural discourses within the concrete materiality and exteriority of the island's historical, cultural, socioeconomic, and linguistic realities. Using Edward Said's notion of worldliness, the essay argues that Cooper articulates this via three related tropes-noises, border clashes, and the vulg…
"The Politics of Style in "Caribbean Man in Space and Time
This essay reads Kamau Brathwaite's seminal 1975 essay "Caribbean Man in Space and Time" in terms of its rhetorical politics. Conceptually, the essay's hybrid and heterogeneous discourses and registers are theorized in terms drawn from Clifford Geertz, Leah Rosenberg, and Mandy Bloomfield. Brathwaite's style effectively instantiates "Caribbean Man" as an exemplary model of the practice of Caribbean studies. The essay is posited as a palimpsestic …
Contexts, Criticism, and Quarrels
This reading of Edward Baugh's seminal 1977 essay highlights its contextual affiliations and affinities and its relation to an anglophone Caribbean critical discourse on the representation and significance of history. Nadi Edwards delineates the intellectual genealogy of the concept of the quarrel with history, noting its intimations in critical reflections by George Lamming and John Hearne. Baugh's signal contribution to this critical tradition …
Notes on the Age of Dis
This paper examines the representation of contemporary figures of "bare life" in the context of postcolonial Jamaican modernity. The representation of Kingston as a dystopia is one such trope of bare life, as evident in Kamau Brathwaite's 1994 prose poem, Trench Town Rock, and the selected lyrics of dancehall artistes such as Damian Marley and Super Cat, which are read in terms of Giorgio Agamben's concepts of homo sacer, the state of exception, …
Notes on the Age of Dis
This paper examines the representation of contemporary figures of “bare life” in the context of postcolonial Jamaican modernity. The representation of Kingston as a dystopia is one such trope of bare life, as evident in Kamau Brathwaite's 1994 prose poem, Trench Town Rock, and the selected lyrics of dancehall artistes such as Damian Marley and Super Cat, which are read in terms of Giorgio Agamben's concepts of homo sacer, the state of exception, …
Diaspora, Difference, and Black Internationalisms
Book Review| March 01 2005 Diaspora, Difference, and Black Internationalisms Nadi Edwards Nadi Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 120–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-120 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nadi Edwards; Diaspora, Difference, and Black Internationalisms. Small Axe 1 March 2005; 9 (1): 120–128. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-120 Downlo…
Conversations on Creoleness
Book Review| September 01 2004 Conversations on Creoleness Nadi Edwards Nadi Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 222–227. https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-2-222 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nadi Edwards; Conversations on Creoleness. Small Axe 1 September 2004; 8 (2): 222–227. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-2-222 Download citation file: Zotero Reference M…
George Lamming's Literary Nationalism
Research Article| March 01 2002 George Lamming's Literary Nationalism: Language between The Tempest and the Tonelle Nadi Edwards Nadi Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-59 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite…
George Lamming's Literary Nationalism
Preface
That Sailor's Mistake”
(2001). “THAT SAILOR'S MISTAKE”: ‘WEST INDIANIST DISCOURSE’ IN FOUR NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVELOGUES. Studies in Travel Writing: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 35-62
"The Politics of Style in "Caribbean Man in Space and Time
This essay reads Kamau Brathwaite's seminal 1975 essay "Caribbean Man in Space and Time" in terms of its rhetorical politics. Conceptually, the essay's hybrid and heterogeneous discourses and registers are theorized in terms drawn from Clifford Geertz, Leah Rosenberg, and Mandy Bloomfield. Brathwaite's style effectively instantiates "Caribbean Man" as an exemplary model of the practice of Caribbean studies. The essay is posited as a palimpsestic …
Notes on the Age of Dis
This paper examines the representation of contemporary figures of “bare life” in the context of postcolonial Jamaican modernity. The representation of Kingston as a dystopia is one such trope of bare life, as evident in Kamau Brathwaite's 1994 prose poem, Trench Town Rock, and the selected lyrics of dancehall artistes such as Damian Marley and Super Cat, which are read in terms of Giorgio Agamben's concepts of homo sacer, the state of exception, …
Preface
That Sailor's Mistake”
(2001). “THAT SAILOR'S MISTAKE”: ‘WEST INDIANIST DISCOURSE’ IN FOUR NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRAVELOGUES. Studies in Travel Writing: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 35-62
George Lamming's Literary Nationalism
Research Article| March 01 2002 George Lamming's Literary Nationalism: Language between The Tempest and the Tonelle Nadi Edwards Nadi Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1215/-6-1-59 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite…
George Lamming's Literary Nationalism
Conversations on Creoleness
Book Review| September 01 2004 Conversations on Creoleness Nadi Edwards Nadi Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 222–227. https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-2-222 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nadi Edwards; Conversations on Creoleness. Small Axe 1 September 2004; 8 (2): 222–227. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-2-222 Download citation file: Zotero Reference M…
Diaspora, Difference, and Black Internationalisms
Book Review| March 01 2005 Diaspora, Difference, and Black Internationalisms Nadi Edwards Nadi Edwards Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2005) 9 (1): 120–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-120 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nadi Edwards; Diaspora, Difference, and Black Internationalisms. Small Axe 1 March 2005; 9 (1): 120–128. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/-9-1-120 Downlo…
Notes on the Age of Dis
This paper examines the representation of contemporary figures of "bare life" in the context of postcolonial Jamaican modernity. The representation of Kingston as a dystopia is one such trope of bare life, as evident in Kamau Brathwaite's 1994 prose poem, Trench Town Rock, and the selected lyrics of dancehall artistes such as Damian Marley and Super Cat, which are read in terms of Giorgio Agamben's concepts of homo sacer, the state of exception, …
Notes on the Age of Dis
This paper examines the representation of contemporary figures of “bare life” in the context of postcolonial Jamaican modernity. The representation of Kingston as a dystopia is one such trope of bare life, as evident in Kamau Brathwaite's 1994 prose poem, Trench Town Rock, and the selected lyrics of dancehall artistes such as Damian Marley and Super Cat, which are read in terms of Giorgio Agamben's concepts of homo sacer, the state of exception, …
Contexts, Criticism, and Quarrels
This reading of Edward Baugh's seminal 1977 essay highlights its contextual affiliations and affinities and its relation to an anglophone Caribbean critical discourse on the representation and significance of history. Nadi Edwards delineates the intellectual genealogy of the concept of the quarrel with history, noting its intimations in critical reflections by George Lamming and John Hearne. Baugh's signal contribution to this critical tradition …
"The Politics of Style in "Caribbean Man in Space and Time
This essay reads Kamau Brathwaite's seminal 1975 essay "Caribbean Man in Space and Time" in terms of its rhetorical politics. Conceptually, the essay's hybrid and heterogeneous discourses and registers are theorized in terms drawn from Clifford Geertz, Leah Rosenberg, and Mandy Bloomfield. Brathwaite's style effectively instantiates "Caribbean Man" as an exemplary model of the practice of Caribbean studies. The essay is posited as a palimpsestic …
Dangerous Disturbances
This essay examines Carolyn Cooper's intellectual project as a practice of noisy disturbance that anchors her conceptualization of Jamaican literary and cultural discourses within the concrete materiality and exteriority of the island's historical, cultural, socioeconomic, and linguistic realities. Using Edward Said's notion of worldliness, the essay argues that Cooper articulates this via three related tropes-noises, border clashes, and the vulg…
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