Interim Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4797152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donette Francis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-61 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| 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 | 10.1215/07990537-7374442 |
| OpenAlex | W2937893278 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay argues that the Jamaican 1970s is perhaps the most contested decade in Jamaican historiography. While there remains a contest over the positions and the stakes of narrating this period, there is consensus of the traumatic hold of the Jamaican 1970s that was at once violent, heady, exhilarating, and creative. There endures nonetheless an often-takenfor-grantedness that we narrate this decade through the singular framework of revolutionary time—a time that challenges the stagnation of the existing state of affairs and brings a new cultural-political order into being. As an alternative to revolutionary time, the author proposes interim time, which by contrast is marked by a self-conscious awareness of the unsustainability of a period’s momentum—a sense of the inevitable return to the status quo. Juxtaposing revolutionary time with interim time usefully frames the period to underscore that both temporalities were simultaneously at play—even among those who viewed themselves as sympathetic to transformations occurring in the then national culture
Aesthetics · Art · CONTEST · Epistemology · Historiography · Interim · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Status quo · Temporalities · Temporality · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |