Noises in the Blood Orality, Gender, and the "Vulgar" Body of Jamaican Popular Culture

ISBN-10: 0822315955

ISBN-13: 9780822315957

Edition: N/A

Authors: Carolyn Cooper

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"Carolyn Cooper's book is lively, stimulating, challenging, witty, and skillfully-written. "Noises in the Blood "is the kind of text that a range of scholars and specialists and general readers in oral literature, cultural studies, African diaspora and Caribbean studies, popular culture, and cross-cultural literatures will find useful, helpful, and necessary."--Carole Boyce Davies, State University of New York, Binghamton

Book details

Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 2/8/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface: Informing cultural studies: a politics of betrayal?


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Oral/sexual discourse in Jamaican popular culture



'Me know no law, me know no sin': transgressive identities and the voice of innocence: the historical context



'Culture an tradition an birthright': proverb as metaphor in the poetry of Louise Bennett



That cunny Jamma oman: representations of female sensibility in the poetry of Louise Bennett



Words unbroken by the beat: the performance poetry of Jean Binta Breeze and Mikey Smith



Writing oral history: Sistren Theatre Collective's Lionheart Gal



Country come to town: Michael Thelwell's The Harder They Come



Chanting down Babylon: Bob Marley's song as literary text



Slackness hiding from culture: erotic play in the dancehall



From 'centre' to 'margin': turning history upside down


Appendix 1: Proverbs from Louise Bennett


Appendix 2: Jamaican proverbs: a gender perspective


Bibliography


Index