Citizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture University of Exeter Press was it not the over-kill

was it not the over-kill of a dominant intellectual culture

Will they learn the hard way that A DOPE BOY'S DREAM can quickly become a nightmare

And as he makes and breaks friendships on the way

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0345523601

Citizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture University of Exeter Press was it not the over-killCitizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture is the first book length study of the interaction of culture, politics and society in Jamaicas formative postcolonial moment, the years between 1972 and 1980. Through examining literary and other texts from and about the period, Rachel Mordecai argues that the 1970s were defined by the explosion into the public sphere of a long simmering dispute over the substance and limits of