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Natural Mysticism
Kwame Senu Neville Dawes
其他書名
Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic in Caribbean Writing
出版Peepal Tree, 1999
主題History / Caribbean & West Indies / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin AmericanBody, Mind & Spirit / General
ISBN19007152289781900715225
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KLxyAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Kwame Dawes speaks for all those for whom reggae defines the major experiences of life. He describes how reggae has been central to his sense of selfhood, his consciousness of place and society in Jamaica, his development as a writer - and why the singer Ken Boothe should be inseparably connected to his discovery of the erotic. Natural Mysticism is also a work of acute cultural analysis. Dawes argues that in the rise of roots reggae in the 1970s, Jamaica produced a form which was both wholly of the region and universal in its concerns. He contrasts this with the mainstream of Caribbean literature which, whilst anticolonial in sentiment was frequently conservative and colonial in form. Dawes finds in reggae's international appeal more than just an encouraging example. In the work of artists such as Don Drummond, Bob Marley, Winston Rodney and Lee "Scratch" Perry, he finds a complex aesthetic whose inner structure points in a genuinely contemporary and postcolonial direction.