Author: Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452964769
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i Hawaiian “aloha ʻāina” is often described in Western political terms—nationalism, nationhood, even patriotism. In Remembering Our Intimacies, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio centers in on the personal and embodied articulations of aloha ʻāina to detangle it from the effects of colonialism and occupation. Working at the intersections of Hawaiian knowledge, Indigenous queer theory, and Indigenous feminisms, Remembering Our Intimacies seeks to recuperate Native Hawaiian concepts and ethics around relationality, desire, and belonging firmly grounded in the land, memory, and the body of Native Hawai’i. Remembering Our Intimacies argues for the methodology of (re)membering Indigenous forms of intimacies. It does so through the metaphor of a ‘upena—a net of intimacies that incorporates the variety of relationships that exist for Kānaka Maoli. It uses a close reading of the moʻolelo (history and literature) of Hiʻiakaikapoliopele to provide context and interpretation of Hawaiian intimacy and desire by describing its significance in Kānaka Maoli epistemology and why this matters profoundly for Hawaiian (and other Indigenous) futures. Offering a new approach to understanding one of Native Hawaiians’ most significant values, Remembering Our Intimacies reveals the relationships between the policing of Indigenous bodies, intimacies, and desires; the disembodiment of Indigenous modes of governance; and the ongoing and ensuing displacement of Indigenous people.
Author: Marlon James
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 1594633940
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of social and political turmoil.
Author: Edward P. G. Seaga
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Author: Nikko M Fungchung
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998149738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Anya's World Adventures Book Series, takes young readers on a tour of the world through the eyes of a child. With the help of Anya's magic globe, readers will experience the joys of travel and adventure. The first stop in the series is Jamaica. Join Anya as she learns about the food, language and culture of this beautiful country.
Author: Yvonne Shorter Brown
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1771125489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 383
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Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown’s life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The author’s quest to understand the absence of her mother and her mother’s people from her life is at the heart of the narrative. The author struggles through life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father’s brutal family. In this updated edition she adds a coda, “finding mother”, constructed from archives, genealogy, letters, and journals. Initially published in 2010, this second edition includes expanded text and a foreword by Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember.
Author: Alexia Arthurs
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1524799211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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“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: Ross Kenneth Urken
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789768286048
Category : Child care workers
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061847399
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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“Strikingly dramatic, yet simple and unrestrained . . . an unusual and intensely interesting book richly packed with strange information.” —New York Times Book Review Based on Zora Neale Hurston’s personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of the ceremonies, customs, and superstitions of voodoo.
Author: Dwight Clacken
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519539489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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This is the story of the travels and travails of an honest business man and his wife through the complex, inefficient and often times corrupt Jamaican Judicial System as they seek equitable redress against the machinations of venal and fraudulent business partners. The author details in graphic reality the administrative incompetence built into our Courts Systems, the institutional negligence of a crumbling financial structure and the outright corruption of the Professionals in the system, all of which combine to prevent honest Petitioners to the Court from obtaining Justice, even Petitioners with the ability to pay for legal representation. The author's thesis that the society is corrupt and that the weaknesses of the Judicial System support that corruption is underpinned with references and extracts from letters to the Press and media articles. The book is a damning indictment on a failed judicial institution and in a Society which is failing its citizens politically and administratively.
Author: Howard Anglin Palmer
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039120237
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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For a boy growing up in Jamaica in the 1940s, going to school was not a given. Colonialism, colourism, and classism created educational barriers for anyone who wasn’t rich or white. But from these early struggles, Howard Palmer devoted his career to education, even earning a PhD. This memoir covers the challenges and joys of Dr. Palmer’s life, from his family and Jamaican upbringing, his immigration to Canada in the 1960s, his lifelong educational pursuits and raising his daughters after the tragic death of his wife. He also shares his insightful research into how Ontario’s educational system was failing Black boys—findings that are sadly still relevant today. By sharing his story, Dr. Palmer hopes to encourage readers to examine their own personal journeys and gain a deeper understanding of persisting against the odds. My Life is a thorough, honest, and inspirational story of a Jamaican Canadian man overcoming obstacles through faith and determination.
