TY - BOOK ID - 117650613 TI - The confounding island : Jamaica and the postcolonial predicament PY - 2019 SN - 9780674243064 9780674988057 0674243064 9780674292246 0674243072 0674292243 0674988051 PB - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism and sports KW - Postcolonialism KW - Reggae music KW - Urban poor KW - City dwellers KW - Poor KW - Post-colonialism KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Political science KW - Decolonization KW - Sports and nationalism KW - Sports KW - Jamaica KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:117650613 AB - Orlando Patterson returns to Jamaica, his birthplace, to reckon with its history and culture. Locals claim to be some of the world's happiest people, and their successes in music and athletics are legendary. Yet the country remains violent and poor. In Jamaica the dilemmas of globalization and postcolonial politics are thrown into stark relief. ER -