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Author : Kamala Kempadoo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847695171
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Sun, Sex, and Gold written by Kamala Kempadoo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For abstracts see: Caribbean abstracts, no. 11, 1999-2000 (2001); p. 61.
Author : Charles Hyatt
Publisher : University of the West Indies Press
ISBN 13 : 9789768017109
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)
Download or read book When Me was a Boy written by Charles Hyatt and published by University of the West Indies Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dean Campbell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491707003
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book The Inevitability of Dusk Swallowing Twilight written by Dean Campbell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaican-born Cré has been dragged around the world for years by her mother, who wandered in pursuit of love. When they finally return to their island home, Cré hopes to make a life there. She finds friends, develops relationships, and grows close to her home country. But all of that quickly changes one night with the arrival of her stepfather, David. With Cré's mother supposedly away in Canada, David tries to rape her. With no other option, Cré kills her stepfather. It soon comes to light, however, that David was not who he appeared to be; he is actually a ruthless crime boss, and Cré's friend, Stacy, suspects he may have killed Cré's mother. Now, Cré is on the run from David's murderous brother, Tanny. Tanny does all the dirty work and doesn't mind getting his hands bloody, but Cré has no intention of becoming one of his victims. Instead, she trains to kill. She will be ready when Tanny comes for her if she doesn't decide to go after him first. She'll do anything to find out what happened to her mother and get her old life back anything.
Author : Paul Foreman
Publisher : Paul Foreman
ISBN 13 : 1467978795
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Sometimes There's a Winner written by Paul Foreman and published by Paul Foreman. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of poverty, injustice and revenge in Jamaica, SOMETIMES THERE'S A WINNER tells the story of a poor black gardener, Byron Reid, and his sister Nadia, who work for a wealthy white Lebanese-Jamaican family in Kingston. Byron Reid surpasses his work ambitions and achieves success in a variety of jobs with Abraham Faroud, and is driven to bankruptcy by his employer's son Fabian who exploits his sister's innocence and vulnerability when she worked as a servant in the Faroud home. Byron uses incriminating information about his employer which he has secretly collected as the basis for demands for himself and his sister. SOMETIMES THERE'S A WINNER tells of the plight and frustrations of the poor in class-conscious Jamaica.
Author : 'H' Patten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100054642X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Reading Religion and Spirituality in Jamaican Reggae Dancehall Dance written by 'H' Patten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the genealogy of Jamaican dancehall while questioning whether dancehall has a spiritual underscoring, foregrounding dance, and cultural expression. This study identifies the performance and performative (behavioural actions) that may be considered as representing spiritual ritual practices within the reggae/dancehall dance phenomenon. It does so by juxtaposing reggae/dancehall against Jamaican African/neo-African spiritual practices such as Jonkonnu masquerade, Revivalism and Kumina, alongside Christianity and post-modern holistic spiritual approaches. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance studies, popular culture, music, theology, cultural studies, Jamaican/Caribbean culture, and dance specialists.
Author : Ayesha Dwyer
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1643496271
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Sista Me and Friends written by Ayesha Dwyer and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ew..spiders! Would you hike through a scary, creepy spider patch for a friend? This is the story of "A Rock and a Hard Place." The school bells are ringing and all the kids in Mrs. Bagby's class are cheering, "Hooray!" The school year has finally ended. Let the summer fun begin! Sista Me is thrilled because her favorite cousin, Joshy, will be visiting from Jamaica. She has a lot of fun things planned. Upon Joshy's long-awaited arrival, the two cousins are excited to see one another. They can't wait to kick off their summer adventures. Before they dash from the house, Auntie Merty gives them a few rules they must follow: stay together, don't go far and return home before dark. Uh, oh...something happens! Sista Me and Joshy are separated. Time is ticking and the sun is beginning to go down. Sista Me knows the only way she can find her cousin is to travel through Mr. McArthur's gloomy, spooky spider patch. Oh, no! Sista Me is afraid of spiders, but she can't return home without her cousin. What should she do? Read and discover if Sista Me learns the true meaning of being between "a rock and a hard place."
Author : Claudette Beckford-Brady
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468598376
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Sweet Home, Jamaica written by Claudette Beckford-Brady and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Freeman: Strong-willed and opinionated: feisty, determined and independent. Knows what she wants and goes after it. Mavis: Michelles stepmother: lacks formal education but possesses a sharp intelligence and innate common sense. Grandma Miriam: Michelles maternal grandmother and matriarch of the Campbell family. Richard Armstrong: Tall, good-looking; dreadlocked. Entirely too sure of himself in Michelles opinion, but captures her heart anyway. Michelle Freeman, affectionately known as Shell or Shellie, was born in Jamaica but migrated to England with her parents at the age of three. At age thirteen her life is thrown into turmoil when she accidentally discovers that her fathers wife, whom she had always taken for granted as being her mother, is in fact, not. This shocking discovery leads her to begin a search for her biological mother. The search eventually takes her to Jamaica where she finds a large extended maternal family and develops a deep and abiding love for the island of her birth. After leaving school and university in London, where she studied journalism, Shellie decides to leave the UK and practise her profession in Jamaica. However, all is not plain sailing, as she encounters culture shock, prejudice and jealousy and comes to the realisation that her beloved island is not the idyllic paradise she had supposed it to be. Set in South London and on the beautiful island of Jamaica, the story spans seventeen years, following the fiery and feisty young woman through her teenage years, young love and tragedy, and into adulthood and more conflicts and clashes.
Author : Lorrimer Burford
Publisher : LMH PUBLISHING LIMITED
ISBN 13 : 9768184841
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (681 download)
Download or read book A Jamaican Storyteller's Tale written by Lorrimer Burford and published by LMH PUBLISHING LIMITED. This book was released on 2005 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underpinned by common Jamaican themes, A Jamaican Storyteller's Tale is the story of a young man intent on saving an aspect of his heritage that is dying - storytelling. Heavily influenced by his father's skill at relating these stories, he comes face to face with the possibility of losing his heritage when his family migrates. Lorrimer Burford merges traditional Jamaican tales with the story of this young man to create a unique synthesis.
Author : Connie Lawrence
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN 13 : 1682354598
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Evil Peeks Through My Tinted Glass Window written by Connie Lawrence and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evil Peeks Through My Tinted Glass Window: A Jamaican Story Bobbie Redstone, an attractive, diminutive, strong-willed, and feisty woman, meets her match when she leaves her high-powered job in Kingston, Jamaica, to start her own business in a small backward seaside town. Not only does she meet her match in the larger-than-life Evil Sorcerer (who is big, bold and loud, yet ugly and attractive in the same sentence), but she gets caught up in a life totally different from anything she ever knew. Bobbie gets ensnared in the lives and bizarre stories of Evil Sorcerer and some prominent townsfolk, including her own father. She is mesmerised by Evil as much as Evil is mesmerised by her. Their worlds collide when she finds Evil peeking through the tinted glass window of her office, and their lives will never be the same, because Evil is intent on terrorising Bobbie, who is bold and unafraid of anyone, and is able to stand up to her and all her wicked wiles.
Author : Andrea Moll
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726841X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Jamaican Creole Goes Web written by Andrea Moll and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large-scale migration after WWII and the prominence of Jamaican Creole in the media have promoted its use all around the globe. Deterritorialisation has entailed the contact-induced transformation of Jamaican Creole in diaspora communities and its adoption by ‘crossers’. Taking sociolinguistic globalisation yet a step further, this monograph investigates the use of Jamaican Creole in a web discussion forum by combining quantitative and qualitative methodology in a sociolinguistic ‘third wave’ approach. In the absence of standardised orthography, one of the central aims of this study is to document the sociolinguistic styling and grassroots (anti-) standardisation of spelling norms for Jamaican Creole in the web forum as a virtual community of practice. An analysis of individual repertoire portraits demonstrates that conventionalised spelling variants co-occur with basilectal Jamaican Creole morphosyntax in ‘Cyber-Jamaican’ as the digital ethnolinguistic repertoire of the discussion forum. The enregisterment of this ethnolinguistic repertoire is closely tied to staged performance, which establishes the link between ‘Cyber-Jamaican’ and the negotiation of sociolinguistic identity and authenticity via stance-taking.
Author : Shelley Sykes-Coley
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1982200960
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)
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.
Author : Renate Papke
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN 13 : 3940344427
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Poems at the Edge of Differences written by Renate Papke and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2008 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study consists of two parts. The first part offers an overview of feminism's theory of differences. The second part deals with the textual analysis of poems about 'mothering' by women from India, the Caribbean and Africa. Literary criticism has dealt with the representation of 'mothering' in prose texts. The exploration of lyrical texts has not yet come. Since the late 1970s, the acknowledgement of and the commitment to difference has been foundational for feminist theory and activism. This investigation promotes a differentiated, 'locational' feminism (Friedman). The comprehensive theoretical discussion of feminism's different concepts of 'gender', 'race', 'ethnicity' and 'mothering' builds the foundation for the main part: the presentation and analysis of the poems. The issue of 'mothering' foregrounds the communicative aspect of women's experience and wants to bridge the gap between theory and practice. This study, however, does not intend to specify 'mothering' as a universal and unique feminine characteristic. It underlines a metaphorical use and discusses the concepts of 'nurturing', 'maternal practice' and 'social parenthood'. Regarding the extensive material, this study understands itself as an explorative not concluding investigation placed at the intersections of gender studies, postcolonial and classical literary studies. Most of all, it aims at initiating a dialogue and interchange between scholars and students in the Western and the 'Third World'.
Author : Franchot Peter Moore Sr.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524501476
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)
Download or read book A Collection of Metaphysical Experiences written by Franchot Peter Moore Sr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of personal experiences that falls outside the scope of normal logical explanation regarding the experiences that we all have but are usually afraid to speak about or reveal publicly. The true stories recorded in this book offer an insight in an amusing way into events and experiences currently unexplainable by conventional logic yet have its basis in human reality and experience. It suggests communication between various units of consciousness not based within the camouflage structure of physical reality or native to the environment of earth. It offers validation of the experiences native to many individuals who would normally be afraid or ashamed to publicly disclose many of their own similar experiences for fear of being ridiculed, embarrassed, or stigmatized.
Author : Anne M. Galvin
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826502881
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Sounds of the Citizens written by Anne M. Galvin and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancehall: it's simultaneously a source of raucous energy in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica; a way of life for a group of professional artists and music professionals; and a force of stability and tension within the community. Electronically influenced, relevant to urban Jamaicans, and highly danceable, dancehall music and culture forms a core of popular entertainment in the nation. As Anne Galvin reveals in Sounds of the Citizens, the rhythms of dancehall music reverberate in complicated ways throughout the lives of countless Jamaicans. Galvin highlights the unique alliance between the dancehall industry and community development efforts. As the central role of the state in supporting communities has diminished, the rise of private efforts such as dancehall becomes all the more crucial. The tension, however, between those involved in the industry and those within the neighborhoods is palpable and often dangerous. Amidst all this, individual Jamaicans interact with the dancehall industry and its culture to find their own paths of employment, social identity, and sexual mores. As Sounds of the Citizens illustrates, the world of entertainment in Jamaica is serious business and uniquely positioned as a powerful force within the community.
Author : Verona C.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450079245
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Raw Emotions written by Verona C. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raw Emotions, the book, words are expressed in its truest state. It doesnt dilute the realities as they appear. Instead, it opens up to a rhythm, a beat, that though sad some of the experiences might be, emotion expressed without any form of pretense will help to inspire or motivate one to a higher level of thought. The book covers a spiritual realm, societal, and personal. You will laugh, you will cry, yes, you will be saddened at times but at the end of that verse you will simply learn to appreciate the power of words in context. Raw Emotions is as it is; its title portrays nothing that is sugar coated. The author hopes that the content of this book will open up a conversation, be it with a stranger, a friend, or a relative. This book will have readers laughing at, The Internet crying at The Flowers That Didnt Bloom, wanting to become like; His Name was Job, looking at the mentally challenged in a different way as one reads: They Say Im Mad. Having pity on those we call bosses when we read Sour Power and for women to reach out and demand the respect they deserve and to applaud the men who do give this respect after reading The Antique Man and those who have never had a Flat Bridge experience, desiring to do so. For the precious moments spent in childhood innocence with a friend who you chose to Remember in a most special way. The collection of literary pieces the author hopes will be widely appreciated by all. She hopes that her writing will be a voice to the voiceless.
Author : Linton Kwesi Johnson
Publisher : Ausable Press
ISBN 13 : 9781931337298
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Mi Revalueshanary Fren written by Linton Kwesi Johnson and published by Ausable Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Few poets of the last thirty years have approached his diversity of formal innovations; few have communicated so intensively via performances and recordings, as often as not with integral musical settings; and few have proved so effective politically... a living modern classic for real." --London Magazine "You can just hear the reggae drumbeat as his verse vacillates among fire, anger, fear, profound loss, and victory." --Savoy Magazine, January 2007 "The man writes some of the most moving poetry to be found in popular music.--David Bowie in Vanity Fair "His observations are the rich fruits of both a lyrical childhood on a Jamaican farm, and his bottled anger on the streets of London. During his teenage years in Brixton, Johnson witnessed serial episodes of racial abuse and joined the Black Panthers movement in protest. There, he learned his history and culture, but found his own outlet."--Caroline Frost, BBC Four Linton Kwesi Johnson is the most influential black poet in Britain. The author of five previous collections of poetry and numerous record albums, he is known worldwide for his fusion of lyrical verse and reggae. Much of his work is written in the street Creole of the Caribbean communities in which he grew up in England. Mi Revalueshanary Fren includes all of his best-known poems, which concern racism and politics, personal experience, philosophy, and the art of music, among other things. Contains a full-length CD of Johnson reading.
Author : Sharma Taylor
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0349017395
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Genuine Human Hair written by Sharma Taylor and published by Virago. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize** 'Me name Petal. Mi pretty except fi mi picky-picky hair. Mi nah tell nuh lie. Mi head tough. It bruk comb. Well, is a good thing God invent weave.' Petal is a young woman trying to make a life in the Kingston ghetto. Flower is a girl taken by force to a Uyghur re-education camp. In a short story that spans two worlds, Petal and Flower are connected through the most intimate of ways: their hair. Shocking, beautiful and empowering, Genuine Human Hair reveals the cost of racism in two very different ways, and how two women overcome it. Read Sharma Taylor's exciting first novel What a Mother's Love Don't Teach You now! 'Outstanding' Cherie Jones 'Cacophonic, alive, heart-breaking' Kiran Millwood Hargrave 'Rich and exuberant' Claire Adam
