Preface
David Scott
Bodies of Horror in Marlon James’ The Book of Night Women and Clovis Brown’s Cartoons
Curdella Forbes
Amortizing Memory: Debt as Mnemonic Device in Caribbean-Canadian Literature
Camille van der Marel
Opitennin
Kamau Brathwaite
The Jamaican 1960s
Genealogical Self-Consciousness and Intellectual Tradition: On the Very Idea of the Making of Modern Jamaica
David Scott
Radical Skepticisms: Literatures of the Long Jamaican 1960s
Donette Francis
Rastafari, Communism, and Surveillance in Late Colonial Jamaica
Deborah A. Thomas
Global Sisyphus: Re-reading the Jamaican Sixties through A Brief History of Seven Killings
Sheri-Marie Harrison
The Coloniality of Power and the Limits of Dissent in Jamaica
Obika Gray
Racial Hierarchy and the Elevation of Brownness in Creole Nationalism
Maziki Thame
The Soundings with my Sisters: Sovereignty, Intimacy, Disappointment
Faith Smith
How Did There Come to Be a “New Kingston”?
Charles V. Carnegie
“Seeing False Images of Ourselves”: Rex Nettleford’s Mirror Mirror in the Wake of the 1960s
David Scott
Visualities
The Jamaican 1960s: A Visual Dossier
Book Discussion: Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
Towards a Genealogy of Water: Reading Julia de Burgos in the 21st Century
Rebeca Hey-Colón
Rediscovering Julia de Burgos: The People’s Rebel Soul Poet
Edna Acosta-Belén
Julia de Burgos and the Mourning of Community
Jossianna Arroyo
The Afterlives of Julia de Burgos
Vanessa Pérez-Rosario
Contributors