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Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present (Paperback)
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Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
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This study considers cultural representations of "brown" people in
Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute
from the Abolition era onwards. Through close readings of
contemporary fictions and "histories," Salih probes the extent to
which colonial ideologies may have been underpinned by what might
be called subject-constituting statutes, along with the potential
for force and violence which necessarily undergird the law. The
author explores the role legal and non-legal discourse plays in
disciplining the brown body in pre- and post-Abolition colonial
contexts, as well as how are other bodies and identities - e.g.
black, white are discursively disciplined. Salih examines whether
or not it's possible to say that non-legal texts such as prose
fictions are engaged in this kind of discursive disciplining, and
more broadly, looks at what contemporary formulations of "mixed"
identity owe to these legal or non-legal discursive formations.
This study demonstrates the striking connections between historical
and contemporary discourses of race and brownness and argues for a
shift in the ways we think about, represent and discuss "mixed
race" people.
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