The writing of popular history in Jamaica has a tradition which begins inside the anticolonial movement and develops with the Marxist Left in the 1970s. This essay examines how the major texts of this tradition describe the historical 1938 events. It suggests that while the tradition foregrounded popular movements, it did so within frames which negated the political ideas of these groups. In the end the essay argues for a critical subaltern historiography which pays attention to political thought and the frames in which they may be expressed.
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