No Grave Cannot Hold My Body Down
Rituals of Death and Burial in Postcolonial Jamaica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4196052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Annie Paul (0009-0001-3432-3970, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 142-162 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| 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.2007.-.23.142 |
| OpenAlex | W4246089364 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
In contemporary Jamaica, funerals increasingly revolve around fantasy coffins and designer caskets. This paper attempts to marshal visual and textual information describing recent developments in Jamaican funerals with a view to recording attempts by the Jamaican underclasses to produce prestige for themselves in the face of an ever-effacing violence
Ancient history · Art · Face (sociological concept · Fantasy · Linguistics · Literature · Prestige · Social science · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Philosophy
Death and the Construction of Social Space
“The Dead Don’t Come Back Like the Migrant Comes Back”
Afterword
Of Vital Spirit and Precarious Bodies in Amerindian Socialities
Speaking in Tongues
What Times Are These? Visual Art and Social Crisis in Postcolonial Jamaica
Popular Art, Crime and Urban Order Beyond the State
Gangstas and Bush Cockerels
Disenfranchised grief and social inequality
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |