Notes on the Age of Dis
Reading Kingston through Agamben
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12765486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadi Edwards (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Pages | 1-15 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/sax.2008.-.25.1 |
| OpenAlex | W4250871104 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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, and the biopolitical paradigm of the camp
Art · Art history · Biopower · Close reading · Context (archaeology · Dystopia · Linguistics · Literature · Lyrics · Modernity · Poetry · Politics · Reading (process · Representation (politics · State of exception · Trope (literature · Unsaid · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |