Through Marlon Jamess oeuvre, we will take a journey through Jamaican culture and history by exploring a variety of national, regional, and global preoccupations, specifically as they are refracted through the lenses of prose and popular fictions. In other words, we will explore thematic and artistic concerns that arise in Jamess fiction, allowing us insight into Jamaican and African Diaspora histories and cultures and explorations of global moves that impact Jamaica, disseminate Jamaicanness, and notions of an African Diaspora.The following themes shape this course: Jamaican culture and globalization (A Brief History of Seven Killings), legacies of slavery and identity formation (The Book of Night Women), post-coloniality, class, race (Immaculate); colonialism, constructions of racial, gender, sexual identities (John Crows Devil); and imagined and imagining black worlds, genre (Immaculate,Black Leopard, Red Wolf; Moon Witch, Spider King).John Crows Devil (2005)The Book of Night Women (2009)Immaculate,Kingston Noir, edited by Colin Channer (2012)A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014)Black Leopard, Red Wolf Book One, Dark Star trilogy (2019)Moon Witch, Spider King Book Two, Dark Star Trilogy (2022)
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