Dub Writing in Marcia Douglas’ The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim

Formal experimentation allows writers to critique long-standing notions of tradition and propriety. Within Caribbean literary discourse formal interventions are used assert life, art, history as its own distinct expression. Particularly in relation origin, or the our origins, have experimented with form articulate region’s peculiar understanding place within a time/space continuum outside conventional structures knowledge. In this essay, I explore adaptation across creative, artistic genres. Specifically, look at how writing leverages sound ways that disturb belief is singularly privileged which knowledge circulates. Looking musical Jamaican Dub Music, consider structural features such fragmentation, reverb, echo play out on pages story Marcia Douglas’ Marvellous Equations Dread: A Novel Bass Riddim. argue novel enacts what term “dub writing” draws structure dub music suggests we can imagine new interpret re/present histories. These ways—creative interventions—effectively yield versions much same way results from versioning an orginary text record. Further, aspirations towards destabilizing rigid nature linearity sustain conception time it history.