Inside Tenement Time: Suss, Spirit, and Surveillance

Inside Tenement Time is a comprehensive treatment of Jamaican literary and cultural texts that present surveillance and its vernaculars in the Caribbean. The project introduces two Afro-Indigenous variations on surveillance--sussveillance and spiritveillance--which are identified as examplars of vernacular arts and make the case that hegemonies are flexible in the Caribbean context. The book includes a reading of the Smile Jamaica concert (1976) and the Tivoli Incursion (2010) as states of high surveillance emergency.