ENGL 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Protestant Work Ethic, Jamaican Patois, Britishness
28 Sep 2016
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When you"re talking about someone british, one automatically imagines a person from england not from the colonies (british people include both white and non-colonial subjects too) Britishness isn"t just about territory it"s about skin colour and race. Irish), one was seen as non-white when they were a non-desirable white. Mrs seacole as colonial subject: black jamaican, creole. While seacole identifies as creole, she pushes back against the stereotypes applied to this people group by telling readers she was a hard worker and not lazy: scots. Highland scots maintained galen as a language instead of english, associated with savagery and barbarism. Seacole draws upon stereotypes applied to this identity as well in order to position herself as someone who could be identified by the protestant work ethic at the time: imperial networks. Spatial trajectory is reversed by the colonial subject travelling to the metropole (jamaica > england) In this way, mimicry can also be destabilizing.
