Author: W. Adolphe RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Jamaica
Author: W. Adolphe RobertsJamaica, the Portrait of an Island
Author: Walter Adolphe RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Focus on Jamaica
Author: Jamaica. Tourist BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
How to Love a Jamaican
Author: Alexia ArthursPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1524799211
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
“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
Island in the Sun
Author: Harry BelafontePublisher: A & C Black
ISBN: 9780713648713
Category : Calypso (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A picture book based on the lyrics of the famous calypso song Island in the Sun, illustrated with collages of a Caribbean Island.
Jamaica's Find
Author: Juanita HavillPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395393765
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.
Maidan - Portraits from the Black Square
Author: Anastasia Taylor-LindPublisher:
ISBN: 9780957427280
Category : Maĭdan Nezalez︠h︡nosti (Kiev, Ukraine)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This title by Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a series of portraits of anti-government protestors and mourners made in a makeshift photographic studio in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), Kiev.
From a Small Island
Author: Andrew JacksonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781739121228
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Island People
Author: Joshua Jelly-SchapiroPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385349777
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce grip on the world’s imagination. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa María's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Running roughshod over the place, they have viewed these islands and their inhabitants as exotic allure to be consumed or conquered. The Caribbean stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years, with societies shaped by mass migrations and forced labor. But its people, scattered across a vast archipelago and separated by the languages of their colonizers, have nonetheless together helped make the modern world—its politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Jelly-Schapiro gives a sweeping account of how these islands’ inhabitants have searched and fought for better lives. With wit and erudition, he chronicles this “place where globalization began,” and introduces us to its forty million people who continue to decisively shape our world.
Report on Jamaica
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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