Jenny Sharpe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenny Sharpe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenny |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharpe |
| SIGNATURE | SHARPE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica , by Violet Harrington Bryan
Readers desiring to learn more about the fiction and poetry of the talented Jamaican sisters Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard will welcome this comprehensive study.The premise for Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard is that it is the first book-length study of Pollard's writing "on a par with that of her sister" (p.118).Violet Harrington Bryan's slim volume packs a wealth of information about the familial, historical, diasporic, religious, and folkloric…
Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica
Although the signs of Indo-Jamaican and Afro-Jamaican cohabitation are present in a late-nineteenth-century photographic archive, the visual power of an imperial picturesque obscures the evidence that exists in plain view. The illusion of self-contained villages of imported Indian workers that photographs create is informed by even as it reinforces a colonial order of racial segregation. By identifying the photographic traces of Indians' indentur…
Thinking “Diaspora” with Stuart Hall
This article revisits Stuart Hall’s writing on “diaspora” to highlight its potential for future work on the topic. Although Hall has been faulted for excluding modern Africa, his historical and geographic approach to black cultural identities introduces the possibility for an inclusion. Since his “diaspora aesthetics” is based on black British films, photography, and visual art, this reassessment of his work concludes with a consideration of the …
The Archive and Affective Memory in M. Nourbese Philip's Zong
Trinidadian Canadian poet M. NourbeSe Philip fashions her poems from the only record of an infamous incident in which 142 African slaves were drowned at sea so that their owners might collect insurance. By fragmenting the language of maritime law, the book of poems, Zong! As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng, exposes its silences as spaces of affect, which are extra-linguistic spaces that contain the humanity of the drowned slaves and al…
When Spirits Talk: Reading Erna Brodber's Louisiana for Affect
Slavery is a specter that haunts the circum-Caribbean region. 1 In Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot likens the invisible yet felt presence of slavery long after the institution has ended to a ghost."Slavery here is a ghost," he writes, "both the past and a living presence; and the problem of historical representation is how to represent that ghost, something that is and yet is not." 2 The idea of slavery as a ghostly presence was popula…
The middle passages of black migration
In characterizing the desperate journeys undertaken by African and Haitian refugees as today's “middle passages,” Caryl Phillips Phillips, Caryl. 1985. The Final Passage, London: Faber & Faber. [Google Scholar]'s A Distant Shore and Edwidge Danticat Danticat, Edwidge. 1995. Krik? Krak, New York: Vintage. [Google Scholar]'s “Children of the Sea” complicate the idea of a single origin to a transatlantic black Diaspora. If, during an era of black po…
Plunder and Play: Édouard Duval-Carrié's Artistic Vision
Plunder and Play:Édouard Duval-Carrié's Artistic Vision Jenny Sharpe (bio) and Edouard Duval-Carrié (bio) Ships and seas constitute central imagery in the mixed-media work of Édouard Duval-Carrié, a Haitian-born, Miami-based artist. It is perhaps due to his own nomadic life that his work shows such a keen sensibility for the diasporic experience of Haitian migrants. Duval-Carrié escaped the brutality of the Duvalier dictatorship for the sanctity …
The Sweetest Taboo: Studies of Caribbean Sexualities; A Review Essay
Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism
Gender, Nation, and Globalization inMonsoon WeddingandDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Jenny Sharpe (bio) The crossover success of Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding (2001), whose characters speak English, Hindi, and Punjabi, lies in the skill with which the film acquaints a Western audience with the sights and sounds of the new global India. Set in a burgeoning New Delhi suburb, the film uses a lavish Punjabi wedding as an occasion for staging the reunio…
A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Politics and the Imagination
Cartographies of Globalisation, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
By locating the current usage of ‘diaspora’ within today's cultures, I make a case for the unacknowledged subject of Paul Gilroy's black Atlantic world being Western, urban and male. In order to consider the black Atlantic as the site of multiple and heterogeneouslyproduced subjectivities, I turn to the Jamaican performance poet, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, whose work stages modern black subjectivities that are Third World, rural, domestic and female. H…
Dub and Difference: A Conversation with Jean "Binta" Breeze
Jamaican-born Jean "Binta" Breeze is an internationally-renowned poet, actress, storyteller, dancer, and theatrical director who writes and performs both in standard English and Jamaican patois. She grew up in Patty Hill, a small village in the hills of Hanover before moving to Kingston in 1978 to study at the Jamaica School of Drama, where she met the dub poets Oku Onuora, Mikey Smith, and Mutabaruka. Dub poetry, which is the term used for a poe…
Ghosts Of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women’s Lives
Examining the lives of three distinctive Caribbean women (a maroon leader, a mulatto concubine and a fugitive slave), this study explains how the diasporic experience of slavery enabled black women to claim an authority that they didn't possess in Africa
Something Akin to Freedom: The Case of Mary Prince
Research Article| April 01 1996 “Something Akin to Freedom”: The Case of Mary Prince Jenny Sharpe Jenny Sharpe jenny sharpe is Associate Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. Author of Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text (U of Minnesota P, 1993), she is currently completing a new book entitled Resurrecting Dead Memories: The Ghosts of a Caribbean Slave Past. Search for other works by this …
Of This Time, of That Place
Is the United States Postcolonial: Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race
Diaspora 4:2 1995 Is the Transr Is the United States Postcolonial? Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race and Rc Jenny Sharpe University of California at Irvine When I completed my doctorate in 1987, postcolonial studies was not a clearly defined field. I (like other diasporic Third World academics of my generation) applied for jobs in literature, to which we introduced the critical frame of Empire. And, like them, I began to shift my research a…
Is the United States Postcolonial? Tansnationalism, Immigration, and Race
When I completed my doctorate in 1987, postcolonial studies was not a clearly defined field. I (like other diasporic Third World academics of my generation) applied for jobs in literature, to which we introduced the critical frame of Empire. And, like them, I began to shift my research and teaching away from European literature and toward the cultures of the ex-colonies. This shift occurred in response to the limitations of identifying colonial s…
The Violence of Light in the Land of Desire; Or, How William Jones Discovered India
Celebrated as greatest of the Orientalists' and undisputed founder2 of Orientalism, William Jones is best remembered for his discovery of an Indo-European family of languages. Although he was not the first to notice that Sanskrit resembled Greek and Latin, he was the first to be credited with the comparative method that gave birth to a modern science of philology. Jones's so-called discovery, and the science to which it gave birth, signals the em…
The Violence of Light in the Land of Desire; Or, How William Jones Discovered India
Celebrated as greatest of the Orientalists' and undisputed founder2 of Orientalism, William Jones is best remembered for his discovery of an Indo-European family of languages. Although he was not the first to notice that Sanskrit resembled Greek and Latin, he was the first to be credited with the comparative method that gave birth to a modern science of philology. Jones's so-called discovery, and the science to which it gave birth, signals the em…
The middle passages of black migration
In characterizing the desperate journeys undertaken by African and Haitian refugees as today's “middle passages,” Caryl Phillips Phillips, Caryl. 1985. The Final Passage, London: Faber & Faber. [Google Scholar]'s A Distant Shore and Edwidge Danticat Danticat, Edwidge. 1995. Krik? Krak, New York: Vintage. [Google Scholar]'s “Children of the Sea” complicate the idea of a single origin to a transatlantic black Diaspora. If, during an era of black po…
Is the United States Postcolonial: Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race
Diaspora 4:2 1995 Is the Transr Is the United States Postcolonial? Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race and Rc Jenny Sharpe University of California at Irvine When I completed my doctorate in 1987, postcolonial studies was not a clearly defined field. I (like other diasporic Third World academics of my generation) applied for jobs in literature, to which we introduced the critical frame of Empire. And, like them, I began to shift my research a…
Gender, Nation, and Globalization inMonsoon WeddingandDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
The Violence of Light in the Land of Desire; Or, How William Jones Discovered India
Celebrated as greatest of the Orientalists' and undisputed founder2 of Orientalism, William Jones is best remembered for his discovery of an Indo-European family of languages. Although he was not the first to notice that Sanskrit resembled Greek and Latin, he was the first to be credited with the comparative method that gave birth to a modern science of philology. Jones's so-called discovery, and the science to which it gave birth, signals the em…
Of This Time, of That Place
Is the United States Postcolonial: Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race
Diaspora 4:2 1995 Is the Transr Is the United States Postcolonial? Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race and Rc Jenny Sharpe University of California at Irvine When I completed my doctorate in 1987, postcolonial studies was not a clearly defined field. I (like other diasporic Third World academics of my generation) applied for jobs in literature, to which we introduced the critical frame of Empire. And, like them, I began to shift my research a…
Is the United States Postcolonial? Tansnationalism, Immigration, and Race
When I completed my doctorate in 1987, postcolonial studies was not a clearly defined field. I (like other diasporic Third World academics of my generation) applied for jobs in literature, to which we introduced the critical frame of Empire. And, like them, I began to shift my research and teaching away from European literature and toward the cultures of the ex-colonies. This shift occurred in response to the limitations of identifying colonial s…
Something Akin to Freedom: The Case of Mary Prince
Research Article| April 01 1996 “Something Akin to Freedom”: The Case of Mary Prince Jenny Sharpe Jenny Sharpe jenny sharpe is Associate Professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles. Author of Allegories of Empire: The Figure of Woman in the Colonial Text (U of Minnesota P, 1993), she is currently completing a new book entitled Resurrecting Dead Memories: The Ghosts of a Caribbean Slave Past. Search for other works by this …
Ghosts Of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women’s Lives
Examining the lives of three distinctive Caribbean women (a maroon leader, a mulatto concubine and a fugitive slave), this study explains how the diasporic experience of slavery enabled black women to claim an authority that they didn't possess in Africa
A Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Politics and the Imagination
Cartographies of Globalisation, Technologies of Gendered Subjectivities: The Dub Poetry of Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
By locating the current usage of ‘diaspora’ within today's cultures, I make a case for the unacknowledged subject of Paul Gilroy's black Atlantic world being Western, urban and male. In order to consider the black Atlantic as the site of multiple and heterogeneouslyproduced subjectivities, I turn to the Jamaican performance poet, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, whose work stages modern black subjectivities that are Third World, rural, domestic and female. H…
Dub and Difference: A Conversation with Jean "Binta" Breeze
Jamaican-born Jean "Binta" Breeze is an internationally-renowned poet, actress, storyteller, dancer, and theatrical director who writes and performs both in standard English and Jamaican patois. She grew up in Patty Hill, a small village in the hills of Hanover before moving to Kingston in 1978 to study at the Jamaica School of Drama, where she met the dub poets Oku Onuora, Mikey Smith, and Mutabaruka. Dub poetry, which is the term used for a poe…
Postcolonial Studies in the House of US Multiculturalism
Gender, Nation, and Globalization inMonsoon WeddingandDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Gender, Nation, and Globalization in Monsoon Wedding and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Jenny Sharpe (bio) The crossover success of Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding (2001), whose characters speak English, Hindi, and Punjabi, lies in the skill with which the film acquaints a Western audience with the sights and sounds of the new global India. Set in a burgeoning New Delhi suburb, the film uses a lavish Punjabi wedding as an occasion for staging the reunio…
The Sweetest Taboo: Studies of Caribbean Sexualities; A Review Essay
Plunder and Play: Édouard Duval-Carrié's Artistic Vision
Plunder and Play:Édouard Duval-Carrié's Artistic Vision Jenny Sharpe (bio) and Edouard Duval-Carrié (bio) Ships and seas constitute central imagery in the mixed-media work of Édouard Duval-Carrié, a Haitian-born, Miami-based artist. It is perhaps due to his own nomadic life that his work shows such a keen sensibility for the diasporic experience of Haitian migrants. Duval-Carrié escaped the brutality of the Duvalier dictatorship for the sanctity …
The middle passages of black migration
In characterizing the desperate journeys undertaken by African and Haitian refugees as today's “middle passages,” Caryl Phillips Phillips, Caryl. 1985. The Final Passage, London: Faber & Faber. [Google Scholar]'s A Distant Shore and Edwidge Danticat Danticat, Edwidge. 1995. Krik? Krak, New York: Vintage. [Google Scholar]'s “Children of the Sea” complicate the idea of a single origin to a transatlantic black Diaspora. If, during an era of black po…
When Spirits Talk: Reading Erna Brodber's Louisiana for Affect
Slavery is a specter that haunts the circum-Caribbean region. 1 In Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot likens the invisible yet felt presence of slavery long after the institution has ended to a ghost."Slavery here is a ghost," he writes, "both the past and a living presence; and the problem of historical representation is how to represent that ghost, something that is and yet is not." 2 The idea of slavery as a ghostly presence was popula…
The Archive and Affective Memory in M. Nourbese Philip's Zong
Trinidadian Canadian poet M. NourbeSe Philip fashions her poems from the only record of an infamous incident in which 142 African slaves were drowned at sea so that their owners might collect insurance. By fragmenting the language of maritime law, the book of poems, Zong! As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng, exposes its silences as spaces of affect, which are extra-linguistic spaces that contain the humanity of the drowned slaves and al…
Thinking “Diaspora” with Stuart Hall
This article revisits Stuart Hall’s writing on “diaspora” to highlight its potential for future work on the topic. Although Hall has been faulted for excluding modern Africa, his historical and geographic approach to black cultural identities introduces the possibility for an inclusion. Since his “diaspora aesthetics” is based on black British films, photography, and visual art, this reassessment of his work concludes with a consideration of the …
Life, Labor, and a Coolie Picturesque in Jamaica
Although the signs of Indo-Jamaican and Afro-Jamaican cohabitation are present in a late-nineteenth-century photographic archive, the visual power of an imperial picturesque obscures the evidence that exists in plain view. The illusion of self-contained villages of imported Indian workers that photographs create is informed by even as it reinforces a colonial order of racial segregation. By identifying the photographic traces of Indians' indentur…
Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard: Folklore and Culture in Jamaica , by Violet Harrington Bryan
Readers desiring to learn more about the fiction and poetry of the talented Jamaican sisters Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard will welcome this comprehensive study.The premise for Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard is that it is the first book-length study of Pollard's writing "on a par with that of her sister" (p.118).Violet Harrington Bryan's slim volume packs a wealth of information about the familial, historical, diasporic, religious, and folkloric…
History (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Art (11 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art history (8 works) · Law (8 works) · History (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works)