The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament Patterson Orlando
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of a PROSE Award "Fascinating...Eye-opening...Illuminating...Patterson carefully explores the complexity of the structural machinery behind Jamaica's…
Specifikacia The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament Patterson Orlando
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWinner of a PROSE Award "Fascinating...Eye-opening...Illuminating...Patterson carefully explores the complexity of the structural machinery behind Jamaica's dazzling successes and dismal failures." --Carrie Gibson, New York Times Book Review "The book seeks to understand what became of the promises of decolonization...In the ruins of postcolonial Jamaica, Patterson unearths a vibrant popular culture, centered in particular on dancehall music, that can provide new resources to address the postcolonial predicament...He uses the 'confounding island' as the site from which to understand the world." --Adom Getachew, The Nation "Jamaica...is an enigma that still fascinates the world. In this masterful history infused with personal feeling and detail, Orlando Patterson...delivers a memorable,