23/11/2021
Barbados Museum & Historical Society A compilation of Barbadian Short Stories, 'This Land is Mine' explores stories of the ordinary folk and delivers them in an interesting and entertaining way.
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21/06/2019
Making West Indian Literature
by Mervyn Morris
West Indian Literature, as a body of work, is a fairly recent phenomenon; and literary criticism has not always acknowledged the diversity of approaches to writing effectively.
In Making West Indian Literature poet and critic Mervyn Morris explores examples of West Indian creativity shaping a range of responses to experience, which often includes colonial traces. Appreciating various kinds of making and a number of West Indian makers, these engaging essays and interviews display a recurrent interest in the processes of composition. Some of the prices highlight writer-performers who have not often been examined.
This very readable book, often personal in tone, makes a distinctive contribution to the knowledge and understanding of West Indian Literature.
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19/06/2019
Welter (n.) - a large number of disordered items.
For example:
John's garage contains a welter of rusty car parts.
18/06/2019
Pride's Run by Cat Kalen
WARNING: Mature Content
Eighteen-year-old Pride is a tracker with a hunger for blood. Taught to trick, seduce and to lure, she is the perfect killing machine.
Kept leashed in the cellar by a master who is as ruthless as he is powerful, Pride dreams of freedom, of living a normal life, but escape from the compound is near impossible and disobedience comes with a price.
When she learns her master intends to breed her she knows she has to run.
Pride soon learns if she is to survive in the wild, she must trust in the boy who promises her freedom, the same boy she was sent to hunt.
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14/06/2019
Nanny's Asafo Warriors: The Jamaican Maroons' African Experience by Werner Zips
In 1975, Nanny was declared the first and, is to date, the only female National Hero in Jamaica. Though revered as a leader of the Maroons โ that group of runaway slaves who fought the British during the 18th century and established free communities in the mountainous interior of Jamaica, maintaining their freedom and independence โ much of Nannyโs story and that of the Maroons has been from oral tradition which paints a different picture from the Eurocentric historiography of colonial sources. Using an ethnohistorical approach that combines political and legal anthropology with an African interpretive framework, Anthropologist Werner Zips takes Nannyโs key role in the Maroon societies to probe into the African political, legal, social and religious experiences throughout the periods of slavery, colonial rule and postcolonial nation building to provide a new perspective on the Maroons beyond the African cultural retentions in the New World.
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12/06/2019
Puerile (adj.) - childishly silly.
For example:
Slapstick comedy is so peurile. I much prefer sarcasm and witty jokes.