On the B-Side: A Dub Approach to Defining a Caribbean Literary Identity in the Contemporary Diaspora

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dc.contributor.advisorCollins, Merleen_US
dc.contributor.authorSemaj, Isis Nailahen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-12T06:30:55Z
dc.date.available2014-02-12T06:30:55Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractUnited under an aesthetics of dub and utilizing both literary critique and social and musical historiography, this dissertation analyzes Caribbean texts that acknowledge a particular kind of identification that occurs in the diaspora and has implications, too, for the study of the Caribbean subject at home in the region. Inspired by dub music, which developed out of the distinct socio-political climate of newly independent Jamaica as a music juxtaposing the capital city's street violence with new nation optimism, the dub aesthetic finds application in Caribbean literary texts written within the undefined subjective space between dislocation from home and late twentieth and early twenty-first century globalism. Thus, while paying respect to Derek Walcott's pronouncement that colonialism is the common ground of the New World, this dub approach moves beyond a joint postcolonial identification to an interrogation of the overlapping histories and social realities present in the contemporary Caribbean diaspora.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14943
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCaribbean literatureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCaribbean studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledComparative literatureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCaribbean literatureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDub musicen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLiterary aestheticsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNegotiating identityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOralityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledReggaeen_US
dc.titleOn the B-Side: A Dub Approach to Defining a Caribbean Literary Identity in the Contemporary Diasporaen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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