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371 p, Contents: The problem of the problem of form -- Possession as metaphor : Lamming's Season of adventure -- The space between negations -- Assassins of the voice : Martin Carter's Poems of affinity, 1978-1980 -- Three for V -- The shape of that hurt : an introduction to Voiceprint -- Megalleons of light : Edward Brathwaite's Sun poem -- Brathwaite with a dash of brown :crit, the writer and the written life -- The rehumanization of history : regeneration of spirit, apocalypse and revolution in Brathwaite's The arrivants and X/Self -- Trophy and catastrophe : Guiyana Prize feature address -- Apocalypso and the Soca fires of 1990.
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399 p, Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.
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396 p., Foreign interests have dominated the economic development of the Caribbean since the first arrival of Europeans in the region five centuries ago. From the plantation system and slavery to the exploitation of oil and bauxite by the multinational corporations, the history of the Caribbean people is one of dependency and impoverishment. For the great majority, past and present--slaves, indentured laborers, peasants and workers, the unemployed--the region's subjection to external control has meant systematic hardship and social injustice. in this survey of economic development in the Caribbean, Clive Thomas traces the history of colonialism and neocolonialism from the perspective of this majority.
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186 p., Examines the language, religion, music and soil organization of the Jamaican people to reveal the strong cultural continuities with Africa - and the origins of the new cultural forms and political movements, such as Garveyism and Rastafarianism.
