The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament

by Orlando Patterson

Book Overview

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner of a PROSE Award

"Fascinating...Eye-opening...Illuminating...Patterson carefully explores the complexity of the structural machinery behind Jamaica's dazzling successes and dismal failures."
--Carrie Gibson, New York Times Book Review

"In the ruins of postcolonial Jamaica, Patterson unearths a vibrant popular culture, centered in particular on dancehall...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674292243
• ISBN13: 9780674292246
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"