Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica

by Deborah A. Thomas

Book Overview

Exceptional Violence is a sophisticated examination of postcolonial state formation in the Caribbean, considered across time and space, from the period of imperial New World expansion to the contemporary neoliberal era, and from neighborhood dynamics in Kingston to transnational socioeconomic and political fields. Deborah A. Thomas takes as her immediate focus violence in Jamaica and representations of that violence as they circulate within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350866
• ISBN13: 9780822350866
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"