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Marcia Douglas: Interview
The Power To Multiply: An Interview with Marcia Douglas By Opal Palmer Adisa Marcia Douglas is one of the most innovative writers in the Caribbean. Her work is a tapestry of past, present, history and myth and folklore and spirituality –a humane message for the future. This is very evident in her latest work, The…
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Ifeona Fulani: Interview
by Celesti Colds Fechter Ifeona Fulani is a Jamaican-born, black British writer and scholar who received her B.A. in English Studies at the University of Nottingham, England. Fulani received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A. in Comparative Literature, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at New York University, where she is Faculty in the…
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Caribbean presence at 2013 Brooklyn Book Fest | Repeating Islands
A post by Peter Jordens // Tequila Minsky (Caribbean Life News) and Lavern McDonald (Caribbean News Now) report on the Caribbean presence at the recent Brooklyn Books
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Mosaic #29 Lesson Plan
Lorna Goodison’s By Love Possessed is a collection of short stories that explore Jamaican life. These lesson plans can be used to engage younger readers across skills levels,
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New Claude McKay Novel Discovered | NYTimes.com
A Columbia graduate student and his adviser have authenticated the student’s discovery of an unknown manuscript of a 1941 novel by Claude McKay, a leading Harlem Renaissance writer and author of the first novel by a black American to become a best seller.