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Book Synopsis Chat ’Bout! by : Shelley Sykes-Coley
Download or read book Chat ’Bout! written by Shelley Sykes-Coley and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chat ’Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations Jamaicans love to ‘tek bad tings mek laugh’ and Chat ’Bout! lets you get in on the conversation. Written in Patwa or Patois, Chat ’Bout! celebrates all things mundanely Jamaican. Unfiltered, honest and funny, it examines the idiosyncrasies of everyday Jamaican life - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Guided by Jamaican GPS, Chat ’Bout! takes you on a journey through Jamaica, past and present. Get lost while reminiscing down memory lane; stop and eavesdrop on conversations, and vicariously experience a minibus ride. Next thing you know, you are experiencing an unfortunate episode of ‘runnin’ belly’ and having a good belly laugh while you are at it. Be thoroughly entertained by Chat ’Bout! and pick up some Patwa as brawta.
Download or read book Londonstani written by Gautam Malkani and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A talented new writer whose portrayal of the serious business of assimilation and young masculinity is disturbing and hilarious Hailed as one of the most surprising British novels in recent years, Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut reveals young South Asians struggling to distinguish themselves from their parents' generation in the vast urban sprawl that is contemporary London. Chronicling the lives of a gang of four young middle-class men-Hardjit, the violent enforcer; Ravi, the follower; Amit, who's struggling to come to terms with his mother's hypocrisy; and Jas, desperate to win the approval of the others despite lusting after Samira, a Muslim girl-Londonstani, funny, disturbing, and written in the exuberant language of its protagonists, is about tribalism, aggressive masculinity, integration, alienation, bling-bling economics, and "complicated family-related shit."
Download or read book Chat Bout! written by Shelley Sykes-coley and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chat Bout!: An Anthology of Jamaican Conversations Jamaicans love to tek bad tings mek laugh and Chat Bout! lets you get in on the conversation. Written in Patwa or Patois, Chat Bout! celebrates all things mundanely Jamaican. Unfiltered, honest and funny, it examines the idiosyncrasies of everyday Jamaican life - the good, the bad, and the ugly. Guided by Jamaican GPS, Chat Bout! takes you on a journey through Jamaica, past and present. Get lost while reminiscing down memory lane; stop and eavesdrop on conversations, and vicariously experience a minibus ride. Next thing you know, you are experiencing an unfortunate episode of runnin belly and having a good belly laugh while you are at it. Be thoroughly entertained by Chat Bout! and pick up some Patwa as brawta.
Book Synopsis Jamaican Gangs of New York by : Desmond Skyers
Download or read book Jamaican Gangs of New York written by Desmond Skyers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of a better life, these new migrants arrived in New York City from the poverty-stricken and violent ghetto of Western Kingston, Jamaica. Predisposed to violence and experienced in the life of the street, they aged between twenty and thirty-five. They were different from all those that came before them from this exotic island. With the potential for a drug sale at any time, these new arrivals squared-off against one another in the streets of New York City, fighting for control of the illicit yet lucrative cocaine and crack market. From Brooklyn to Queens, Manhattan to the Bronx, the city was divided into three gang strongholds, basically no-go areas. Joe Dog and the Loyalist posse took control of South Jamaica, Queens; Blacka and the Raiders posse control Brooklyn; and Fowl and the Centralist posse controlled the Bronx. In addition to the Jamaicans, there were two black American gangs, one came out of Brooklyn and the other from Queens. When they crossed paths with the Jamaicans, it was war. Then there was the Gem Girls. This was a gang of girls from western Kingston led by a light-skinned lesbian named Patsy. These girls were as ruthless as their male Jamaican counterpart. The desire for instant gratification and material satisfaction was impetus for the violence and killings that followed. None dared to stand in their way. This violence caught the attention of the newly elected mayor Jack Jackson, who established a gang task force, headed up by a no-nonsense former Vietnam veteran named Todd Sullivan. On Todds first day on the job, he shook his head and swore. These fucking Jamaican posses are turning our city into a fucking killing zone. We are going to send every fucking one of them to prison.
Download or read book The Whisper written by Bali Rai and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crew didn't think things could ever get that bad again. They were seriously wrong. Things have calmed down for the Crew (Billy, Ellie, Della, Jas and Will) and life in the Ghetto is ticking on as usual. But things are about to kick-off all over again. The police have launched Operation Clean-up and dealers are regularly being pulled off the street and into the police station. Someone's got to be grassing them up, and soon Nanny and the Crew are getting blamed. Billy is mugged, Ellie is picked on in school, and Billy's house is being targeted. The Crew need to find out who's pointing the finger before things get really serious. As tough and uncompromising as ever, Bali's latest novel won't disappoint his army of fans and will undoubtedly win him many more. A thrilling sequel that also stands alone.
Book Synopsis Jabari by : Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds
Download or read book Jabari written by Ras Dennis Jabari Reynolds and published by Around the Way Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cell Phone written by Heather Horst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few modern innovations have spread quite so quickly as the cell phone. This technology has transformed communication throughout the world. Mobile telecommunications have had a dramatic effect in many regions, but perhaps nowhere more than for low-income populations in countries such as Jamaica, where in the last few years many people have moved from no phone to cell phone. This book reveals the central role of communication in helping low-income households cope with poverty. The book traces the impact of the cell phone from personal issues of loneliness and depression to the global concerns of the modern economy and the transnational family. As the technology of social networking, the cell phone has become central to establishing and maintaining relationships in areas from religion to love. The Cell Phone presents the first detailed ethnography of the impact of this new technology through the exploration of the cell phone's role in everyday lives.
Book Synopsis Life’S Revelations by : Frank Malcolm
Download or read book Life’S Revelations written by Frank Malcolm and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Revelations is a captivating, inspirational, and revolutionary book laced with lyrical potency that will evoke a feeling of involvement. From the onset it keeps you locked in its strong grasp of imagery, words laced with fire burning on the page to get you drawn in to want to find out more. This book is revealing the struggles of the working class, their quest for upward mobility in a society that is seeking to maintain its status quo. The poems are vibrant, soul searching and probing. Frank bares his soul in Lifes Revelations. He is crying out to be free, free from a system that seeks to denigrate his very thoughts, his dreams, and his aspirations to hear and be heard. This book is speaking to all those who seek freedom of expression and liberation from the clutches of the system.
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Plays by : Helen Gilbert
Download or read book Postcolonial Plays written by Helen Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism
Book Synopsis The Crucible of Carolina by : Michael Montgomery
Download or read book The Crucible of Carolina written by Michael Montgomery and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays in The Crucible of Carolina explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Africa, the Caribbean, and England. Decades before any formal, scholarly interest in South Carolina barrier life, outsiders had been commenting on and documenting the "African" qualities of the region's black inhabitants. These qualities have long been manifest in their language, religious practices, music, and material culture. Although direct contact between South Carolina and Africa continued until the Civil War, the era of Caribbean contact was briefer and ended with the close of the American colonial period. Throughout this volume, though, the contributors look beyond the cultural motivations and political appeal of strengthening the links between coastal Carolina and Africa and examine the cost of a diminished recognition of this important Caribbean influence. Not surprisingly, the influence of the pioneering linguist Lorenzo Dow Turner is reflected in many of these essays. The work presented in this volume, however, moves beyond Turner in dealing with the discourse and stylistic aspects of Gullah; in relating patters of Gullah to other Anglophone creoles and to various processes of creolization; and in questioning the usefulness of "retention," "survival," and "continuity" as operational concepts in comparative research. Within this context of furthering and challenging Turner's work in the barrier islands, and in seeking a truer measure of both African and Caribbean influences there, the contributors cover such topics as names and naming, the language of religious rituals, basket-making traditions, creole discourse patterns, and the grammatical morphology of Gullah and related creole and pidgin languages. Other contributors consider the substrate contributions and African continuities to be found in New World language patterns into new patterns adapted to the various situations in the New World. Opening new and advancing previous areas of research, The Crucible of Carolina also contributes to a further appreciation of the richness and diversity of South Carolina's cultural heritage.
Download or read book I Am Jamaica written by Dr Sue and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am Jamaica is a collection of poems written in the rhythm of the Jamaican vernacular and speaks primarily to its culture and heritage. The pieces are humorous yet educational, and so Dr. Sue has coined the term edutainment to describe the pieces.
Download or read book Walk Good written by Roland Thomas Reimer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Walk Good' is an adventure travel story chronicling the experiences of the author in Negril, Jamaica. It's an escape to the sunny beaches, the seas and the mountain back roads of the island. The culture of the island, including the food, the music, a smattering of history and the character of the people form the backdrop of the story. Walk Good, a Jamaican colloquialism, means 'have a safe and comfortable trip'. Come on along!
Download or read book The Sociopath written by Aditi Solanki and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, this is the first book for me to ever write. I was in 9th Standard when started to write this book and finally after not giving up I have completed my first book. Well in the past I have tried several times to write a story but then again I’m in school, so I didn’t have any time. But last year I got a load of time on my hands, so I had to make the most of it. I like scary things, with some wittiness, I have done my best to write my first book ever and it feels good to have accomplished this feat.
Book Synopsis The I.S.A.I.D. Folio by : Derek Livingstone Murray
Download or read book The I.S.A.I.D. Folio written by Derek Livingstone Murray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The I.S.A.I.D. FOLIO is a project that really had no beginning. It is a compilation of works that I have created over a period of time dating back to 1991 when the picture of you was penned. Since then I have written the charts and other songs, but without funds to record, needed a way to bring the works to light. The idea of writing a novella to give insight and context to the songs became the winning concept to which adding the photos became the cherry on the sundae. I liken the experience of this book to that of reading purple rain or any other such film about musicians. Entrenched, the novella, is far from being a literary masterpiece, rather a trashy story that provides a utilitarian soap opera backbone from which to hang the music
Book Synopsis Most Wanted: A Jamaican Story by : I.D. Seymour
Download or read book Most Wanted: A Jamaican Story written by I.D. Seymour and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of the book introduces the difference in thinking between the uptown and downtown culture in Jamaica. The reader experiences how this thinking is translated into a drug deal and how the main characters perceive it. As the story unfolds, we see how an extradition request is sent for the main player and how this affects not only the government but the characters themselves. We also see how persons connected to the main characters are also influenced and impacted by the turn of events. The end of the book focuses on the outcome of all the carnage that follows the request and the final effect it has on everyone.
Book Synopsis Tastes of Jamaica from Gravney's Kitchen by : Nue Ujima Enterprise, LLC Staff
Download or read book Tastes of Jamaica from Gravney's Kitchen written by Nue Ujima Enterprise, LLC Staff and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Cookbook consists of a wealth of tropical recipes that are a basket filled with a fresh bouquet of down home Jamaican flavors with a touch of American and British influences. Here you'll find the spicy flavors of Jamaica's famous Jerk, rice and peas, deserts, seafood and sides. You will also be treated some the history about Jamaica, the origins of Jerk and Gunga (Marijuana). There is also a glossary on how to speak Jamaican and the different types of vegetation.
Download or read book The Southwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 2450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
