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Author : Marlene
Publisher : Author Marlene
ISBN 13 : 0976933578
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (769 download)
Download or read book Jamaican Gal written by Marlene and published by Author Marlene. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sistren (Organization)
Publisher : University of West Indies Press
ISBN 13 : 9789766401566
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Lionheart Gal written by Sistren (Organization) and published by University of West Indies Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The re-publication of Lionheart Gal marks an event unique in contemporary literature. It is the distillation of the Jamaican woman's experience in fifteen compelling life stories from the internationally known Sistren Theatre Collective. Since 1977 the women of Sistren have been exploring the lives of Caribbean women, from which they create plays, workshops and screen prints for presentation throughout the Caribbean and elsewhere. This book is based on testimonies from Sistren collected and edited by Honor Ford-Smith into a vivid record of women's lives. The stories retain all the emotional depth of works of the imagination; yet they are at the same time invaluable records of oral history. Scholars of language, culture, politics and literature will need this book; the general reader will revel in it. "These `sistren' dare to present themselves just as they are - the sounds of their days and their souls intact." - Alice Walker
Author : Indiana Robinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387129309
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (871 download)
Download or read book National Pride - Things (Volume 3) written by Indiana Robinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaica, 55th Anniversary of Independence, Jamaican Things, History, Recollection
Author : Jon Michael Miller
Publisher : English in Florida
ISBN 13 : 1413718124
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Jamaica Girl written by Jon Michael Miller and published by English in Florida. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosalind Juliet Mitchell could become one of the great heroines of modern fiction. She is a Jamaican Lolita and a Caribbean cross between Huck Finn and Liza Doolittle. Dirt poor, hungry, bright-eyed and determined, she clings to her one distant hope a Glenn Webber, an aging, uncertain American tourist. He is Humbert with a conscience, forced comically to confront one moral dilemma after another in an effort to comprehend a culture very different from his own. In this hilarious, erotic, heart-rending romp, we move from a bloody jungle killing to a Kingston beauty pageant, meeting on the way a supporting cast that includes a voodoo witch, a hip-hop dancer, an ebullient taxi driver, a sly Rasta-man, a ruthless voyeur, a stoned plant lady, a corrupt detective, a quirky pageant coach, some wild Jamaican strippers and an assortment of mountain peasants. Have you been to Jamaica, mon? Climbed the falls? Now immerse yourself in this tropical odyssey of struggle and triumph, and meet one of the most memorable heroines in modern imaginative literature.
Author : Sandra McDyess
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781729426401
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Black Girl Magic written by Sandra McDyess and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know a cute melanin girl from Barbados who is drippin with black girl magic? This cool blank lined note book, with the Barbadian flag, will make a cool novelty present or addition to a gift set 120 Pages High Quality Paper 6
Author : Indiana Robinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 138713616X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Diaspora Pride - People, Places, and Things (V4) written by Indiana Robinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a nation, we should preserve our social memory by honoring those who paved the way for us to exist, recognizing those who etched their indelible mark on our lives, and remembering those who went to the great beyond before us as expressed in the Salute to the Dearly Departed segment (People); our regions, areas, and territories; our locales, hotspots, and hangouts and places we love to visit and events we constantly attend in (Places), and the happenings and the things that we cherish to death - items, commodities, artifacts, and products (Things). So dear readers, enjoy the mind "triggers" and heart-wrenching "diggers" you will find in this book honouring the 55th year of celebrating Jamaica's independence and the tantalizing trip down memory lane with this unofficial reference/resource guide by your side. You will recollect who is who (people), where is where (places), and what is what (things) in both the Jamaican and the Diaspora/Global context.
Author : Klive Walker
Publisher : Insomniac Press
ISBN 13 : 1897414609
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Dubwise written by Klive Walker and published by Insomniac Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reggae's influence can be heard in the popular music of nations in a variety of continents. In Dubwise, Klive Walker takes a fresh look at Bob Marley's global impact, specifically his legacy in the Caribbean diaspora. While considering Marley's status as an international reggae icon, Walker also discusses the vital contributions to reggae culture authored by other important Jamaican innovators such as poet Louise Bennett, hand drummer Oswald ''Count Ossie'' Williams, jazz saxophonist Joe Harriott, ska trombonist Don Drummond and singer Dennis Brown.
Author : Carolyn Cooper
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315957
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Noises in the Blood written by Carolyn Cooper and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The language of Jamaican popular culture—its folklore, idioms, music, poetry, song—even when written is based on a tradition of sound, an orality that has often been denigrated as not worthy of serious study. In Noises in the Blood, Carolyn Cooper critically examines the dismissed discourse of Jamaica’s vibrant popular culture and reclaims these cultural forms, both oral and textual, from an undeserved neglect. Cooper’s exploration of Jamaican popular culture covers a wide range of topics, including Bob Marley’s lyrics, the performance poetry of Louise Bennett, Mikey Smith, and Jean Binta Breeze, Michael Thelwell’s novelization of The Harder They Come, the Sistren Theater Collective’s Lionheart Gal, and the vitality of the Jamaican DJ culture. Her analysis of this cultural "noise" conveys the powerful and evocative content of these writers and performers and emphasizes their contribution to an undervalued Caribbean identity. Making the connection between this orality, the feminized Jamaican "mother tongue," and the characterization of this culture as low or coarse or vulgar, she incorporates issues of gender into her postcolonial perspective. Cooper powerfully argues that these contemporary vernacular forms must be recognized as genuine expressions of Jamaican culture and as expressions of resistance to marginalization, racism, and sexism. With its focus on the continuum of oral/textual performance in Jamaican culture, Noises in the Blood, vividly and stylishly written, offers a distinctive approach to Caribbean cultural studies.
Author : Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Publisher : Unbridled Books
ISBN 13 : 1932961402
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Pirate's Daughter written by Margaret Cezair-Thompson and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional account of the years the movie star Errol Flynn spent on Navy Island, off the coast of Jamaica, tells of his affair with a young teenager and May, their love child.
Author : Suzanne Diamond
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611470439
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Compelling Confessions written by Suzanne Diamond and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As various contributors to this collection demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, not only within psychological or therapeutic frameworks or literary analysis, but also in internet discussion groups, in the criminal justice system, in political rhetoric, in so-called 'reality' and interview-style television programming, in writing pedagogy and, increasingly, in the testimonial strain observable in contemporary scholarship. Yet, 'telling one's story' raises questions, not only about authorial intent or authenticity, but also about the pressures disclosure can impose upon its audiences. Far less ubiquitous than confessions themselves, as these contributors suggest, are the critical tools that general audiences might employ in order to better evaluate the rhetoric of personal disclosure. It is, in fact, the shortage of such tools – responses and procedures that could be stated plainly and implemented by any reader or viewer – that Compelling Confessions sets out to address.
Author : M. Jonnard Claude M. Jonnard
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440187037
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Red Death written by M. Jonnard Claude M. Jonnard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characterized by reddish, bursting blisters and blood oozing from the nose, ears, and mouth, a deadly plague strikes the Borders, two remote northern Bahamian islands. Dubbed the Red Death, this plague kills everything; it does not discriminate. The Borders face economic paralysis as the population-whole families, relatives, and friends- succumbs to this spreading epidemic. Jack Shelby Sloane, an alcoholic ship captain, leaves Florida after a manslaughter conviction. Divorced by his wife and losing custody of his children, he stops drinking and travels to the Borders islands to run a boat yard. Jack marries Ginny and begins a new family and a new life. But his dreams are shattered when the Red Death attacks the Bahamas. Disease and anarchy converge to destroy the islands. To make matters worse, a nearby underwater volcano comes alive to finish the job. Jack must now confront his conscience in a mortal struggle to keep himself and his loved ones alive in a world rapidly collapsing into chaos. He seeks to discover the truth about the Red Death: How does the plague occur in the twenty-first century, and who is responsible for this killer outbreak?
Author : Teejay LeCapois
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359514812
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (595 download)
Download or read book Suleiman's Bisexual Tales written by Teejay LeCapois and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the life of Suleiman, a big and tall, openly bisexual Black Muslim man living in the City of Ottawa, Canada. Delve into his days at Carleton University where he develops a fascination with Hijab-wearing ladies and masculine men. Explore his adventures in the Canadian workforce. Rejecting the mainstream LGBT community for their Biphobia and subtle racism towards Black men, Suleiman forges his own path. Meet Laban, the macho Somali hunk whom Suleiman has a crush on, and the tall, athletic, big-bottomed and curvy Lady Jannah of Rwanda, whom he also lusts after. This is one man's quest to find himself while breaking all the rules. Calling out the racism and Biphobia of mainline LGBT society while seeking others like him, Suleiman fights for justice in his own way, and really doesn't care if you hate him.
Author : Kevin O'Brien Chang
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566396295
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Reggae Routes written by Kevin O'Brien Chang and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaican music can be roughly divided into four eras, each with a distinctive beat - ska, rocksteady, reggae and dancehall. Ska dates from about 1960 to mid-1966, rocksteady from 1966 to 1968, while from 1969 to 1983 reggae was the popular beat. The reggae era had two phases, 'early reggae' up to 1974 and 'roots reggae' up to 1983. Since 1983 dancehall has been the prevalent sound. The authors describe each stage in the development of the music, identifying the most popular songs and artists, highlighting the significant social, political and economic issues as they affected the musical scene. While they write from a Jamaican perspective, the intended audience is 'any person, local or foreign, interested in an intelligent discussion of reggae music and Jamaica.'.
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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786478519
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Calypso and Other Music of Trinidad, 1912-1962 written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calypso, with its diverse cultural heritage, was the most significant Caribbean musical form from World War I to Trinidad and Tobago Independence in 1962. Though wildly popular in mid-1950s America, Calypso--along with other music from "the island of the hummingbird"--has been largely neglected or forgotten. This first-ever discography of the first 50 years of Trinidadian music includes all the major artists, as well as many obscure performers. Chronological entries for 78 rpm recordings give bibliographical references, periodicals, websites and the recording locations. Rare field recordings are cataloged for the first time, including East Indian and Muslim community performances and Shango and Voodoo rites. Appendices give 10-inch LP (78 rpm), 12-inch LP (33 1/3 rpm), extended play (ep) and 7-inch single (45) listings. Non-commercial field recordings, radio broadcasts and initially unissued sessions also are listed. The influence of Trinidadian music on film, and the "Calypso craze" are discussed. Audio sources are provided. Indexes list individual artists and groups, recording titles and labels.
Author : Alexia Arthurs
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1524799211
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book How to Love a Jamaican written by Alexia Arthurs and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In these kaleidoscopic stories of Jamaica and its diaspora we hear many voices at once. All of them convince and sing. All of them shine.”—Zadie Smith An O: The Oprah Magazine “Top 15 Best of the Year” • A Well-Read Black Girl Pick Tenderness and cruelty, loyalty and betrayal, ambition and regret—Alexia Arthurs navigates these tensions to extraordinary effect in her debut collection about Jamaican immigrants and their families back home. Sweeping from close-knit island communities to the streets of New York City and midwestern university towns, these eleven stories form a portrait of a nation, a people, and a way of life. In “Light-Skinned Girls and Kelly Rowlands,” an NYU student befriends a fellow Jamaican whose privileged West Coast upbringing has blinded her to the hard realities of race. In “Mash Up Love,” a twin’s chance sighting of his estranged brother—the prodigal son of the family—stirs up unresolved feelings of resentment. In “Bad Behavior,” a couple leave their wild teenage daughter with her grandmother in Jamaica, hoping the old ways will straighten her out. In “Mermaid River,” a Jamaican teenage boy is reunited with his mother in New York after eight years apart. In “The Ghost of Jia Yi,” a recently murdered student haunts a despairing Jamaican athlete recruited to an Iowa college. And in “Shirley from a Small Place,” a world-famous pop star retreats to her mother’s big new house in Jamaica, which still holds the power to restore something vital. Alexia Arthurs emerges in this vibrant, lyrical, intimate collection as one of fiction’s most dynamic and essential authors. Praise for How to Love a Jamaican “A sublime short-story collection from newcomer Alexia Arthurs that explores, through various characters, a specific strand of the immigrant experience.”—Entertainment Weekly “With its singular mix of psychological precision and sun-kissed lyricism, this dazzling debut marks the emergence of a knockout new voice.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Gorgeous, tender, heartbreaking stories . . . Arthurs is a witty, perceptive, and generous writer, and this is a book that will last.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties “Vivid and exciting . . . every story rings beautifully true.”—Marie Claire
Author : Rochelle Rowe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526111268
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Imagining Caribbean womanhood written by Rochelle Rowe and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean from 1929 to 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, the advance of consumer culture and the negotiation of race and nation through the idealised performance of cultured, modern beauty. Modern Caribbean femininity was intended to be politically functional but also commercially viable and subtly eroticised. The lively discussion surrounding beauty competitions, examined in this book, reveals that femininity was used to shape ideas about Caribbean modernity, citizenship, and political and economic freedom. This cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions will be of value to scholarship on beauty, Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, ‘race’ and racism studies and studies of the body.
Author : Natasha Barnes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025740
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Cultural Conundrums written by Natasha Barnes and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Conundrums investigates the passions of race, gender, and national identity that make culture a continually embattled public sphere in the Anglophone Caribbean today. Academics, journalists, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the ideological meanings to be found in the minutiae of cultural life, from the use of skin-bleaching agents in the beauty rituals of working-class Jamaican women to the rise of sexually suggestive costumes in Trinidad’s Carnival. Natasha Barnes traces the use of cultural arguments in the making of Caribbean modernity, looking at the cultural performances of the Anglophone Caribbean—cricket, carnival, dancehall, calypso, and beauty pageants—and their major literary portrayals. Barnes historicizes the problematic linkage of culture and nation to argue that Caribbean anticolonialism has given expressive culture a critical place in the region’s identity politics. Her provocative readings of foundational thinkers C. L. R. James and Sylvia Winters will engender discussion and debate among the Caribbean intellectual community. This impressively interdisciplinary study will make important contributions to the fields of Afro-diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, literary studies, performance studies, and sociology. “Postcolonial cultural criticism is celebrated for its mastery of generalization and condemned for its inability to historicize. Cultural Conundrums is unique in its ability to find a middle ground. It touches on some of the most important and contentious issues in the field. This book will account for why it was in those small islands that what we now call cultural studies was invented.” --Simon Gikandi, Princeton University Natasha Barnes is Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
