BIBFRAME Work

Title

Inside tenement time

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Page, Kezia Ann (author )

Subject

• Surveillance in literature (LCSH)
• Reggae music--Jamaica--History and criticism (LCSH)
• Jamaica--Social conditions (LCSH)
• Jamaican literature--History and criticism (LCSH)
• Police patrol--Jamaica--Surveillance operations (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Classification

• DDC: 820.9/3587291071 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: PR9265 .P34 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"Inside Tenement Time is the first comprehensive treatment of literary and cultural texts on surveillance in the Caribbean. Covering the long historical arc of the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, Inside Tenement Time uses Jamaica as a case study to examine moments of crisis and particular spaces, especially urban yard enclaves and their environs, in the Caribbean encounter with surveillance. Making the argument that the Caribbean situation reveals flexible hegemonies rather than provinces of exclusive control, the book demonstrates the countervailing force of sussveillance and spiritveillance, Afro-Indigenous variations of surveillance. Sussveillance and spiritveillance are exemplars of vernacular arts and sciences that operate at and within the frangible borders of state power, exposing the unique dynamics of surveillance in the region and marshalling the acts of imagination with which it contends. For example, the Smile Jamacia concert of 1976, headlined by reggae Superstar Bob Marley, and the reputedly US government-backed 2010 Tivoli Gardens incursion in the West Kingston, both moments that have dramatic, even mythic residue in the Caribbean and global memory, are among the real-life events brought into conversation with literary representations of this history"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Flexible hegemonies : the Tivoli incursion and the history of surveillance in Jamaica -- In the shadow of the wall : suss and sussveillance in the yard fiction of H.G. de Lisser -- "The dungle is an obeah man" : spiritveillance in the children of Sisyphus -- Smile Jamaica, for the camera : performance and surveillance in 1970s Jamaica -- Bongo Futures after Tivoli : the reggae revival and its genealogies -- Coda.

Authorized Access Point

Page, Kezia Ann. Inside tenement time

Geographic Coverage

• Jamaica

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:11:33.814157+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23763054

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc