Abstract
This essay serves as an introduction to a special section of Small Axe on Caribbean in/securities. It begins by offering a threefold insight into the concept of “in/securities”: securities and insecurities are produced as spatially localized and historically contingent; the orthographic innovation of in/securities focuses on the relational production of security and insecurity; and creative practice is a means through which we can understand the many forms of agency required to negotiate between security and insecurity. The essay goes on to illustrate this concept through a substantive analysis of Erna Brodber’s novel Nothing’s Mat as a fractal narrative of gendered in/securities in the Caribbean.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 57 |
| Pages (from-to) | 37-46 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Small Axe |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Small Axe, Inc.
Keywords
- Caribbean in/securities
- Erna Brodber
- Nothing’s Mat
- fractals
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Sociology and Political Science
- Literature and Literary Theory