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    • Adventure

    • Adventure
    • Family life ; Imagination
    • The children engage in wildly imaginative play where the boys hunt lions and buffaloes while the girl and her doll travel to the sea where she hears the lap of the waves and watch as the frail boat struggles to stay afloat against the elements....
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Mother and son

    • Mother and son
    • Family life ; Mothers and sons
    • A mother feels burdened with a long awaited son who turns out to be an imbecile. She resents the toll of daily caring for him and his inability to mature, become responsible and behave normally. With her husband dead, she sees no way out and longs...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • A piece of rope

    • 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...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Marcus Garvey and the Early Rastafarians: Continuity and Discontinuity

    • Marcus Garvey and the Early Rastafarians: Continuity and Discontinuity
    • Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940-Influence;Rastafari movement; Black nationalism-History-20th century; Blacks-Politics and government-20th century.
    • This paper examines the political aspects of the origins of the Rastafarian movement at a time when the Garvey movement was in decline in the 1930s. Its main intentions are to .underscore ways in which Garveyism has affected the evolution of...
    • Rupert Lewis Collection
    • City stricken to the bone

    • City stricken to the bone
    • Hurricanes ; Social classes ; City and town life
    • The author presents a microcosm of city life including : “wealthy bourgeoisie” who lives uptown; the “ pale stenographer in the administrative office; men and women living in “teeming shacks”; and “the… vice-ridden, violent myrmidons and the poor...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Reflections on the Rebellion in St. Thomas in the East for today, July 11, 2004.

    • Reflections on the Rebellion in St. Thomas in the East for today, July 11, 2004.
    • Insurgency-Jamaica-History; Slave insurrections-Jamaica-History-18th century; Jamaica-History-Morant Bay rebellion, 1865-1866;Maroons-Jamaica; Heroes-Jamaica; Jamaica-History
    • The causes and structures of slave revolts in Jamaica are discussed in this article. It also looks into the role of Maroons in slave uprisings. It questions if we can have a non-violent Morant Bay Rebellion today, and says that in order to have...
    • Rupert Lewis Collection
    • Consider the limpet

    • Consider the limpet
    • Interpersonal relations ; Boarding houses - Fiction
    • The author presents an unfiltered observation of the minutiae of daily life around him. This includes his landlady complaining about the meter, the dog waiting to be walked, Anita talking to the parrot, Mr. Zacca coming down late to breakfast and...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Consider the limpet

    • Consider the limpet
    • Interpersonal relations ; Boarding houses - Fiction
    • The author presents an unfiltered observation of the minutiae of daily life around him. This includes his landlady complaining about the meter, the dog waiting to be walked, Anita talking to the parrot, Mr. Zacca coming down late to breakfast and...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Barometer falling

    • Barometer falling
    • Interpersonal relations; Women
    • The author gives a bird’s eye view of life among a variety of people on a given day and concludes with the story of Connie whose dog had bitten her friend’s child. Every day Connie feared the child’s mother would confront her with a medical bill,...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • ABENG 1969, Vol. 1, No. 29 [Aug. 16]

    • ABENG 1969, Vol. 1, No. 29 [Aug. 16]
    • Jamaica-Politics and government-Periodicals; Jamaica-Social conditions; Black power-Jamaica; Blacks-Jamaica-History; Jamaica-Race relations; Jamaica-Social life and customs; Sugar industry-Jamaica; Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940.
    • A weekly Jamaican newspaper published from February 1-September 27, 1969. It emerged at a radical political moment in post-independence Jamaica where the black power movement was on the rise.
    • Newspapers - Abeng
    • Pepperpot 1975

    • Pepperpot 1975
    • Jamaican literature-20th century; Jamaica-Literary collections; Jamaica-Social life and customs-20th century---Fiction; Art, Jamaica; Artists-Jamaica; Jamaica School of Art
    • A magazine depicting mainly the personal and lighter side of Jamaica
    • Pepperpot

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