Jamaican Gal

Jamaican Gal PDF Author: Marlene
Publisher: Author Marlene
ISBN: 0976933578
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Jamaican Gal

Jamaican Gal PDF Author: Marlene
Publisher: Author Marlene
ISBN: 0976933578
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Lionheart Gal

Lionheart Gal PDF Author: Sistren (Organization)
Publisher: University of West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789766401566
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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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

Jamaican Song and Story

Jamaican Song and Story PDF Author: Walter Jekyll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anansi (Legendary character).
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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National Pride - Things (Volume 3)

National Pride - Things (Volume 3) PDF Author: Indiana Robinson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387129309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Jamaica, 55th Anniversary of Independence, Jamaican Things, History, Recollection

Jamaica Girl

Jamaica Girl PDF Author: Jon Michael Miller
Publisher: English in Florida
ISBN: 1413718124
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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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.

Folk-games of Jamaica

Folk-games of Jamaica PDF Author: Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Diaspora Pride - People, Places, and Things (V4)

Diaspora Pride - People, Places, and Things (V4) PDF Author: Indiana Robinson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 138713616X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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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.

Dubwise

Dubwise PDF Author: Klive Walker
Publisher: Insomniac Press
ISBN: 1897414609
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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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.

The Pirate's Daughter

The Pirate's Daughter PDF Author: Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Publisher: Unbridled Books
ISBN: 1932961402
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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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.

Noises in the Blood

Noises in the Blood PDF Author: Carolyn Cooper
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822315957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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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.