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“edna bennett”

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  • More Jamaica Old-Time Sayings

    by Edna Bennett ...
    Jamaicans, like others around the world, often experience a tugging at the heart that can only be assuaged by pleasant memories. In her collection of old Jamaican proverbs, Edna Bennett shares the powerful messages and folk wisdom of the Jamaican people, conveying not only the mellowness of nostalgia, but also the gentleness of the island culture. Led by a desire to keep her culture alive, Bennett ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • A Personal Anthology

    by Jorge Luis Borges ...
    Handpicked works from the greatest Argentinian writer of the twentieth century. "Without Borges the modern Latin American novel simply would not exist" (Carlos Fuentes, author and diplomat).After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work—short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant "sketches," which, in Borges's ... Read more

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  • Disposable People: Inspired by true events

    by Ezekel Alan ...
    "Brian was already dead when they got there, but they still got something to watch as some of the farmers continued to chop. Chop, chop, chop. Some dogs find it hard to stop barking at cars that have long driven away.Diary entry: Watch him wail. Wail Brian wail. See them chop. Chop, chop, chop. See him bleed. Bleed boy bleed. See them hack. Hack, hack, hack.Here are three things I just can't do, ... Read more

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  • Beyond Windrush

    Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature

    Edited by J. Dillon Brown, Leah Reade Rosenberg ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    This edited collection challenges a long sacrosanct paradigm. Since the establishment of Caribbean literary studies, scholars have exalted an elite cohort of émigré novelists based in postwar London, a group often referred to as “the Windrush writers” in tribute to the SS Empire Windrush, whose 1948 voyage from Jamaica inaugurated large-scale Caribbean migration to London. In critical accounts ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Scales

    Melographed by César Vallejo

    by César Vallejo ...
    Translated by Joseph Mulligan ...
    First published in 1923, just before César Vallejo left Peru for France, Scales combines prose poems with short stories in a collection that exhibits all the exuberance of the author's early experimentalism. A follow-up to Vallejo's better-known work, Trilce, this radical collection shattered many aesthetic notions prevailing in Latin America and Europe. Intermingling romantic, symbolist, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Eric Walrond

    A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean

    by James Davis ...
    Eric Walrond (1898–1966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction. Restoring Walrond to his proper place as a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, this biography situates Tropic Death within the author's broader corpus and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD