Violence and Targeted Erasure of Black Cultural Artists in Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings.

Abstract

Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings won the Man Booker Prize in 2015. James’ writings are often inspired by the systematic violence against those who are on perils and who put up some kind of resistance. The forces of domination have always used brutality of every kind against the artists who bear the responsibility of reviving and keeping the flame of their culture lightened up in every situation. Writers, Historians, Singers, Musicians, sports persons and others are all in the circle of Bull’s eye of the domination forces. Bhagat Singh is more problematic than any other revolutionary for the British because he is also a writer. Mahatma Gandhi , Jawahar Lal Nehru, they are survived by their writings more than their acts and therefore are still relevant today. Writings contribute to the immemorial nature of rememberings. This same idea belongs to the hero of this novel, Bob Marley. Here the domination comes from USA and the resistance is from a Jamaican, who is not white who is not in the cultural embargo of USA; rather Marley put up a resistance from the cultural, historical, sociological and communitarian backgrounding and want to transmit them through his songs: