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...course taught by then-lecturer Patricia E. Powell. “Being in a writing class and being able to write consistently told me that this is what I wanted. I said, I’m going to try and do this,” Iweala said. Visiting Lecturer Jamaica Kincaid, who currently teaches English Cvr, “Fiction Writing,” was Iweala’s thesis adviser. “I’m very proud of him,” Kincaid said. “You never know how these things work, you know...
...Professor of English. But despite this functional autonomy, the creative writing program remains formally included within the larger English family.“English concentrators have to fulfill a certain number of requirements and they come [to my courses] very well versed in literary styles,” says Jamaica Kincaid, who teaches fiction writing as visiting professor on African and African American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language. “A writer can’t write without reading and knowing literature.” HEART OF DARKNESSNonetheless, Harvard’s handful of creative...
...tough ticket the night the film The Harder They Come premiered at the Carib Theater in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1972. A crowd of some 10,000 turned up and a near-riot ensued. Like all those who got in, the island's Prime Minister and his wife were jammed two or more to a seat, while instead of a red carpet entrance, director Perry Henzell's wife, Sally, had to be bodily lifted in over the heads of the crowd. Just 6 at the time, Henzell's daughter Justine wasn't allowed to attend, even though some of her earliest...
...Beyond Jamaica, audiences were less excitable when the film opened. What, after all, were they to make of a radical slice of experimental cinema verite shot by an unknown director in Super 16 mm, about a Jamaican boy who leaves the idyllic poverty of the countryside for the squalid poverty of Kingston to follow his dream of becoming a recording star, only to die in a hail of bullets on the beach? Although Henzell's film was a sharp critique on the closed, cutthroat circle of corruption between the island's music industry, police, and drug dealers, what eventually made...
...received various offers to stage The Harder They Come. "But he turned them all down," says Justine, "because they meant having to relinquish creative control - something Perry found very hard to do." But when Kerry Michael and Dawn Reid, directors of Stratford's Theatre Royal, on a trip to Jamaica four or five years ago, knocked on his door, they were only too pleased to have his creative input. So the musical version of The Harder They Come, as adapted by Perry Henzell and directed by Kerry Michael and Dawn Reid, opened last March at Stratford's 460-seat Theatre...