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Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present (eBook, ePUB) - Salih, S.
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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. Salih 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.…mehr

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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. Salih 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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Autorenporträt
Sara Salih is Professor in the Department of English, University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Judith Butler in the Routledge Critical Thinkers series, and she has edited the Penguin editions of The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave (2000) and Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands (2005). She has also edited, in collaboration with Judith Butler, The Judith Butler Reader (Blackwell, 2004).