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| Author | : Sheri-Marie Harrison |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780814252918 |
Argues that subjects that disrupt essentialized notions of identity as equivalent to sovereignty function as a call for postcolonial critics to broaden their critical horizons beyond the usual questions of national identity and exclusion/inclusion.
| Author | : Juanita Havill |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780395393765 |
A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.
| Author | : Juanita Havill |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780395779392 |
Jamaica hates wearing hand-me-down boots when her friend Brianna has pink fuzzy ones.
| Author | : Ifeona Fulani |
| Publisher | : Peepal Tree Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9781845231996 |
Following the hearts and desires of Caribbean people in search of love and the means to make a life in unfamiliar places, this collection of short stories travels from the lush hills and sunny beaches of Jamaica to London, New York, and Calcutta. The tales observe their characters in their contacts with family, tourists, and strangers, as they seek to remake themselves while dealing with the baggage of past experience, both personal and historic. In the title story, a Jamaican youth hustles a living as an escort to tourists. In “Fevergrass Tea,” a young woman returns from New York to her hometown in Jamaica to find that she no longer understands the subtle languages of class distinction and romantic dalliance. In “Elephant Dreams,” black Londoner Jewel’s childhood dreams of riding an elephant lead her to India, where her lover Arjun will introduce her to his family. Ifeona Fulani shows her characters at points where self-discovery is possible and they can reach an awareness of where the sharp edges of desire and reality meet head on.
| Author | : Jamaica Kincaid |
| Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1998-11-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1466828862 |
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families. My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
| Author | : Juanita Havill |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 33 |
| Release | : 2015-02-10 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547505256 |
Jamaica doesn't want a younger child to play with her, until she remembers how she felt when her older brother excluded her from his games.
| Author | : Martin Mordecai |
| Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2016-10-25 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0545298970 |
"An utterly gorgeous, magical story, rendered with sheer grace and honesty. This book will transport you." -- Daniel Jose Older, New York Times bestselling author of Shadowshaper Way up in the misty island mountains of Jamaica live eleven-year-old twins Pollyread and Jackson Gilmore. Pollyread is smart as a whip and tart as a lime. Jackson's sweet as a mango. Both of them know all the rules of their village -- and how to break them.Then a young thug named Jammy sweeps in to stir up the twins' world. He even seems to be targeting their family. But are Pollyread's smart mouth and Jackson's steadiness enough to take him on -- or will Jammy and his secret change the Gilmore family forever?
| Author | : Gina A. Ulysse |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2008-09-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226841235 |
The Caribbean “market woman” is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders—known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs—who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergence in the 1970s, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and global economies. Gina Ulysse carefully explores how ICIs, determined to be self-employed, struggle with government regulation and other social tensions to negotiate their autonomy. Informing this story of self-fashioning with reflections on her own experience as a young Haitian anthropologist, Ulysse combines the study of political economy with the study of individual and collective identity to reveal the uneven consequences of disrupting traditional class, color, and gender codes in individual societies and around the world.
| Author | : Richard Moore |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2017-05-09 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1681774690 |
Beijing 2008: Usain Bolt slows down as he approaches the 100-meter finish line. He beats his chest, well ahead of his nearest rival, his face filled with euphoria, the world in thrall of his extraordinary talent. It is one of the greatest moments in sports history, and it is just the beginning.Of the ten fastest 100-meter times in history, eight belong to Jamaicans. How is it that this small island has come to dominate men’s and women’s sprinting? The Bolt Supremacy opens the doors to a community where sprinting permeates daily life; where the high school championships are watched by 35,000 screaming fans; where identity, success and status are forged on the track, and where "making it" means adoration and lucrative contracts. In such a society there can be the incentive for some to cheat. There are those who attribute Jamaican success to something beyond talent and hard work.Award-winning writer Richard Moore doesn’t shy away from difficult questions as he travels the length of this beguiling country speaking to antidoping agencies, scientists and skeptics as well as to coaches, superstars, and the young guns desperate to become the next big thing. Peeling back the layers, Moore finally reveals the secrets of Usain Bolt and the remarkable Jamaican sprint factory.
