Jamaican Poetry
I am becoming my mother by Publication Date: 1986- Florida bound byPublication Date: 1995
- Selected poems byPublication Date: 1983
- Miss Louise Bennett - YouTubeJamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her poems in what was known as Jamaican Patois or Creole, she was instrumental in having this "dialect" of the people given literary recognition in its own right ("nation language"). She is located at the heart of the Jamaican poetic tradition, and has influenced other popular Caribbean poets. (Wikipedia)
Jamaican Authors
Brother Man by Publication Date: 1974Novel written by Jamaican author Roger Mais and published in 1954. Tells the story of a Rastafarian healer, set in the context of the Kingston slums.
The Pagoda by Publication Date: 1998
A Small Gathering of Bones by Publication Date: 1994
Summer Lightning by Publication Date: 1995Short story collection won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1986.
Jamaican topics
The folk culture of the slaves in Jamaica by Writer Kamau Brathwaite from Barbados writes about history, slavery and social customs in Jamaica
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- The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820 byWriter Kamau Brathwaite from Barbados writes about history, slavery and social conditions in Jamaica
Caribbean, Haitian, Cuban, and Migration Literature
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