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- Title
Literary and Performative Culture in 1860s Jamaica.
- Authors
EDMONDSON, BELINDA
- Abstract
This article explores two movements in Jamaican literary history that occurred in the 1860s: first, the influence of US vernaculars via periodicals and blackface minstrelsy; and second, creole publications and performances by black, white, or brown authors. In some ways the 1860s was a decade of progress for black Jamaicans. These examples of 1860 Jamaican arts culture therefore reveal the aspirations and tensions within the society that contributed to the Morant Bay Rebellion and its repressive aftermath.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JAMAICAN history; JAMAICAN Insurrection, 1865; POPULAR culture; JAMAICAN literature; HISTORY of Black women; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY of popular culture
- Publication
Journal of Caribbean History, 2016, Vol 50, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
0047-2263
- Publication type
Article