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Notes on the Age of Dis: Reading Kingston through Agamben

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Caribbean and African Literature and Culture Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Political Theology and Sovereignty

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This paper examines the representation of contemporary figures of “bare life” in the context of postcolonial Jamaican modernity. The representation of Kingston as a dystopia is one such trope of bare life, as evident in Kamau Brathwaite's 1994 prose poem, Trench Town Rock, and the selected lyrics of dancehall artistes such as Damian Marley and Super Cat, which are read in terms of Giorgio Agamben's concepts of homo sacer, the state of exception, and the biopolitical paradigm of the camp.

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2004Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica 2005Welcome the Outlaw: Pirates, Maroons, and Caribbean Countercultures 2006Decolonizing the Colonial City 1986Urban Life in Kingston, Jamaica: The Culture and Class Ideology of Two Neighbourhoods

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