House of Sisyphus

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The House of Sisyphus is a fictional Jamaican political dynasty featured in Orlando Patterson’s novel "Children of Sisyphus," symbolizing entrenched power and social inequality.

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instanceOf fictional family
fictional political dynasty
literary entity
appearsIn Children of Sisyphus NERFINISHED
associatedWithTheme political corruption
poverty
power imbalance
social injustice
countryOfOrigin Jamaica
createdBy Orlando Patterson NERFINISHED
depictedAs powerful family
socially distant from the poor
fictionalStatus fictional
firstAppearance Children of Sisyphus NERFINISHED
genre political fiction
social realist fiction
hasFictionalLocation Jamaica NERFINISHED
hasNameOrigin myth of Sisyphus
languageOfWork English
medium novel
narrativeRole antagonistic social force
representation of ruling elite
relatedConcept clientelist politics
political dynasty
ruling class
symbolizes class hierarchy
elite domination
entrenched political power
social inequality
workContext postcolonial Jamaican society

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Children of Sisyphus associatedWith House of Sisyphus