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Celebrate Caribbean Quartely's 75th Annuversay with us!
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You can purchase from Volume 22, No. 1 to Volume 69, Nos. 3 & 4
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The UWI Press Remembers Kingsley "Ibo" Cooper
Interviewing the Caribbean, Vol. 7, No. 2 features an interview with Kingsley "Ibo" Cooper https://www.bookfusion.com/books/2750868-interviewing-the-caribbean-volume-7-issue-2
He shared with Editor, Opal Palmer Adisa that, Third World was conscious about carving out a place and leaving a legacy. And his own legacy was teaching and helping to train and groom the next generation of musicians.
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We salute all Teachers on World Teachers' Day!
Our Caribbean Biography Series Boxed Set is the perfect gift for the Christmas season https://www.uwipress.com/9789766407698/the-caribbean-biography-series-boxed-set/
The Boxed Set contains Earl Lovelace by Funso Aiyejina, Derek Walcott by Edward Baugh, Marcus Garvey by Rupert Lewis, Beryl McBurnie by Judy Raymond and Una Marson by Lisa Tomlinson.
The Caribbean Biography Series from the University of the West Indies Press celebrates and emorializes the architects of Caribbean culture. The series aims to introduce general readers to those individuals who have made sterling contributions to the region in their chosen field – literature, the arts, politics, sports – and are the shapers and bearers of Caribbean identity.
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Sale ends on Friday, September 29, 2023.
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Sheer Bliss: A Creole Journey by Michela A. Calderaro
Recommended Reading for Pride Month
Sheer Bliss: A Creole Journey by Michela A. Calderaro https://www.uwipress.com/9789766408138/sheer-bliss/
“We all know Jean Rhys. But now, out from under the shadow of her more famous contemporary, comes Eliot Bliss. Bliss: an early twentieth century, white creole, Jamaican, lesbian writer. Bliss: whose out-of-print 1931 novel Saraband Calderaro first stumbles across in a bookshop in New York in 1998. Bliss: the absent figure Calderaro pursues throughout this book. The scholar Michela Calderaro reads into the past to recover Bliss, a writer she reveals as ahead of her time and not fit for her time or place in the world. Calderaro delivers Bliss back to the present, through interviews conducted across many years with Bliss’s lifelong partner Patricia Allan-Burns, through the recollections of editors and friends painstakingly tracked down, through letters and diaries discovered and meticulously pored over and pieced together. Calderaro’s book is, like Bliss’s own novels as we come to learn, genre-defying. One part biography, one part criticism, one part memoir, one part detective story, Sheer Bliss carries us on the ‘treasure hunt’ Calderaro enacted over twenty years of research and personal devotion to solving a literary puzzle: Who exactly was Eliot Bliss and why were she and her work forgotten? Calderaro answers in luminous prose and what amounts to the most suspenseful excavation of a writer’s life and lost-then-recovered legacies I’ve yet encountered.”
—Shara McCallum, Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts, Penn State University
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The Caribbean Biography Series from the University of the West Indies Press celebrates and memorializes the architects of Caribbean culture. The series aims to introduce general readers to those individuals who have made sterling contributions to the region in their chosen field – literature, the arts, politics, sports – and are the shapers and bearers of Caribbean identity.
Purchase your copy from https://www.uwipress.com/search-results/?series=caribbean-biography-series or visit our office located on The UWI, Mona Campus.
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Jamaica in 1687: The Taylor Manuscript at the National Library of Jamaica by David Buisseret
This remarkable description of Jamaica in the 1680s was written by a contemporary English observer, John Taylor, who spent some months on the island. The 800-page manuscript is held by the National Library of Jamaica, and has rarely been used by scholars. It contains information about Jamaica under the Spaniards, about the English invasion of 1655, and about the formation of the subsequent society, including the treatment of slaves. There are sections on the island’s settlement and architecture, including a particularly full description of Port Royal. John Taylor sets out fifty current laws, many of them unknown. He also carefully explains the nature of Jamaica’s birds, beasts and plants.
He offers an image of the island before the general spread of sugar cultivation, citing some creatures now extinct in Jamaica; he also makes many suggestions about the medical use of natural products. His world is still one in which certain places are enchanted, though he also describes an island whose main features will be entirely familiar to modern Jamaicans. Buisseret’s edition provides an annotation both for the meaning of particular words and for the significance of the discourse. A glossary provides further meanings and notes have been written to appeal to the general reader. The text will be useful to generations of scholars and students or to anyone with an interest in Jamaica and its colourful history.
Co-published in association with the National Library of Jamaica and the Mill Press, Limited.
Women in Jamaica: A Bibliography Of Published And Unpublished Sources by Leona Bobb-Semple
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Summer reads recommendation
Nothing's Mat by Erna Brodber
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Nothing’s Mat is told by a black British teenager – “every black girl” – for she has no name until the very last chapters when she is teasingly called “Princess” by her husband. Somewhere in the 1950s London-based Princess is allowed to complete her sixth-form final exams by writing a long paper on the West Indian family instead of sitting an exam. She thinks this a godsend and that all she has to do is to interview her parents. Her father tries to help her with his side but they both find that their kin will not fit into the standard anthropological template. Her father thinks it a good time for her to go to Jamaica and meet her grandparents, who can better help her with her study.
In Jamaica, much as her middle-class black Jamaican grandparents and her parents in England might not have liked it, Princess meets and spends time with her obscure cousin Nothing, called Conut. Conut introduces Princess to a plant that obeys certain divine principles and is available to humans to make artefacts for their comfort. Accordingly, they begin to make a mat and as they twist straw and bend it into intricate shapes, Conut tells her the family history so that their creation becomes for her a mat of anthropological template. The resulting shape presented to her teacher earns her an A and the comment that she has managed to project the West Indian family as a fractal rather than fractured as the published literature sees it.
Her studies and subsequent academic career take her to London University and then back to Jamaica, but under-stimulated by the academy, she chooses to continue the family study from high school and to do so by crafting the informatio
Teachers' Day is celebrated on May 10 in Jamaica.
Gift your child's dance teacher Beryl McBurnie by Judy Raymond https://www.uwipress.com/9789766406783/beryl-mcburnie/
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Recommended Issues of Caribbean Quarterly
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Recommended Reading for International Day of Education.
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World AIDS Day Recommended Reading
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30 Years in Scholarly Publishing
The University of the West Indies Press | Celebrating Quality on Every Page
30 Years in Scholarly Publishing Barbara Lalla
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The University of the West Indies Press | Celebrating Quality on Every Page
30 Years in Scholarly Publishing
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The University of the West Indies Press | Celebrating Quality on Every Page
30 Years in Scholarly Publishing
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The University of the West Indies Press | Celebrating Quality on Every Page
30 Years in Scholarly Publishing
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