Word: jamaicas
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Walcott is perhaps the most celebrated of Caribbean writers currently reaping international acclaim. This group includes other luminaries such as V.S. Naipaul and Jamaica Kincaid. They all are, in part, products of a colonial experience...
...enterprising writer like Jamaica Kincaid, who is lecturing here this semester, has been able to spin gold from the flax of her colonial experience. Almost her entire body of work is an unrelenting howl of agony about the inequities of power...
...Jamaica Plain resident who allegedly assaulted a Cambridge police officer and a private security guard Monday before he drove away in the officer's unmarked patrol automobile pleaded innocent during his arraignment at Cambridge District Court yesterday...
...separation, was typical Marley: seductive, soulful and coolly intemperate. The rhythm is easy but the lyrics insinuate, cajole, insist: sexual congress as hip sacrament. It was Marley's unbridled and unapologetic partaking of this and other devotions, in fact, that gave him a kind of enigmatic, outlaw cast. In Jamaica he was not only a star, he was a political hero, a status that was confirmed by a medal from the U.N. and by the Jamaican Order of Merit, which he received in 1981. But long before that, back in 1966, his wife Rita had had a vision of stigmata...
Since 1990, the result of student activism is a department led by well-known scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., DuBois professor of the humanities, one which attracts such star talent as filmmaker Spike Lee and novelist Jamaica Kincaid...