Read more
Inside Tenement Time is a study of Jamaican literary and cultural texts presenting surveillance in the Caribbean. The project introduces two Afro-Indigenous variations on surveillance--sussveillance and spiritveillance--as exemplars of vernacular arts and shows that Caribbean hegemonies are flexible. The book reads the Smile Jamaica concert (1976) and the Tivoli Incursion (2010) as states of high surveillance emergency.
List of contents
Introduction: Flexible Hegemonies: The Tivoli Incursion and the History of Surveillance in Jamaica
1 In the Shadow of the Wall: Suss and Sussveillance in the Yard Fiction of H. G. de Lisser
2 “The Dungle Is an Obeah Man”: Spiritveillance in
The Children of Sisyphus 3 Smile Jamaica, for the Camera: Performance and Surveillance in 1970s Jamaica
4 Bongo Futures after Tivoli: The Reggae Revival and Its Genealogies
Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
About the author
KEZIA PAGE is an associate professor of English and Africana and Latin American studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY. She is the author of
Transnational Negotiations in Caribbean Diasporic Literature: Remitting the Text.
