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On the Very Idea of the Making of Modern Jamaica
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- Duke University Press
- Volume 21, Number 3, November 2017 (No. 54)
- pp. 43-47
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This essay introduces the project of rethinking the cultural-political historiography of Jamaica of which “The Jamaican 1960s” is a contribution. It sets out the question in relation to the idea of a Jamaican intellectual tradition. Specifically, it inquires into the way the idea of the making of a “modern” Jamaica has been crucial to a nationalist historiography—a paradigm that might be less cogent in the contemporary period.