(a paper I wrote for a critical theory and narrative course at HKU)

Jazz as Violence in Michael Harper’s Poetry:

 Creating Identity through Deconstruction and Reactions to Colonialism

            Specific cultural identities are difficult to define due to their dynamism.  To be true to a group of people, they must have a foothold in the past but also be free of it, defined by creative forces rather than a purely historical synthesis. And if this identity is repres...