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  • A Ladder to the stars
  • Political fiction ; Jamaica - Politics and government
  • Blake, Barlow, Osgood and company discuss the pros and the cons of self-government for Jamaica and the country’s readiness to take that path. Central to this concept is the establishment of a university which Barlow finds exciting as he gazes at...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Mr. Bullar's dillemma
  • Political fiction
  • Mr. Bullar’s lecture on the benefits of nationalism over world citizenship gets little response from a bored, impassive audience who are more interested in hunting wild boars than hearing about what is wrong with the country and the prescription...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Why I love, and leave Jamaica
  • Immigration ; Vlaues ; Nationalism
  • Mais attempts to explain his reasons for leaving Jamaica, a country he shall certainly miss but can no longer tolerate mainly because of the anger he feels about the acceptance and entrenchment of mediocrity, the loss of values and a wholeness of...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Why I love, and leave Jamaica
  • Immigration ; Values ; Nationalism
  • Mais attempts to explain his reasons for leaving Jamaica, a country he shall certainly miss but can no longer tolerate mainly because of the anger he feels about the acceptance and entrenchment of mediocrity, the loss of values and a wholeness of...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Never call alligator big mouth
  • Man-woman relationships
  • This is the story of the life of a domestic helper, a naïve country girl who came to town to work and ended up with five children. She had her first at age fourteen and the last one was for Marty – a sly slippery fellow who worked himself into her...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • That man of mine
  • Abused women; Love stories
  • Innocent Pansy, fresh from the country, comes to the city and lodges at the YWCA as a good girl should. There she acquires domestic skills that get her a live-in job in lower St. Andrew. Everything is going fine until one evening she meets a...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Acorn into oak
  • Life ; Death ; Birth ; Philosophy
  • The country doctor finds himself called upon to tend a dying old man and soon after to help bring a baby into the world. The juxtaposition of these two events causes him to ponder the physical and philosophical aspects of birth and death.
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  • A Pot of Cyclamen
  • Life ; Philosophy
  • The author purchases a pot of bright flame-coloured flowers to help lessen the austerity of the grey London weather, and to remind him of his home country where the landscape seems eternally drenched in sunlight. This simple act affords him the...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Hot water
  • City and urban life; Interpersonal relations
  • A variety of scenes from city life: a vagrant arrested for loitering sentenced in court the next day; three mischievous boys playing on the beach; a man courting a somewhat reluctant nursemaid; an attempted blackmail that goes awry; a pregnant...
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  • Still life with Oleanders
  • Family relations; Death ; Childhood and youth
  • Thaddeus, a young boy, mourns the passing of his grandmother as he soon realizes that his life is about to change and those of his adult relatives too who must each work through their own problems brought on by the old lady’s death.
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  • Start of something again
  • Man-woman relationship; Interpersonal relations; Hurricanes
  • Duckett and Silver meet regularly at their favourite restaurant to talk about art and politics as the city grows restless in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane. During this time, Silver is flirting dangerously with a married woman right...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Storm Warning
  • Hurricanes
  • A hurricane is approaching and already the heavy rains are causing physical destruction and severe hardship for the people. For example, Silver has a terrible toothache and because of the storm he is unable to get to the dentist; Pinkie, desperate...
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  • Thunderhead
  • City and town life
  • The author provides short insights into the lives of different people in the city at a time of social turbulence: Joie and Sam looks forward to Christmas together but tragedy intervenes; a seventeen year old boy furtively tries to seduce a girl...
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  • Red dirt don't wash
  • Love stories ; man-woman relationships
  • Adrian, a simple country yokel, falls deeply in love with Miranda, a refined, city-bred lady’s maid. He feels woefully inadequate, but nevertheless, he tries to win her heart and this leads him to even buy a pair of shoes for his usually bare...
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  • A piece of rope
  • Family relationships ; Fathers and sons ; Country life
  • Young Jimmy seems set to follow in his father’s footsteps as a no-good thief and gambler until he is unexpectedly employed as a yard boy. He badly wants to maintain the trust Busha places in him, but the frequent beatings with a piece of rope...
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  • St. Lucia - students' arrival at the airport
  • Student activities; College students - Travel - St. Lucia, Airports - St. Lucia.
  • St. Lucia was the third country visited by the students. It was described as “the most beautiful of all the islands” by undergraduate Roddy Ashby, a participant on the tour. This photo is of the St. Lucian Airport as the undergraduates arrived.
  • West Indian Journey of a 1961 undergraduate

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