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Poems written while cruising with a companion to Cozumel, Mexico and Key West, and while visiting University of Miami on our way home.
Wide Sargasso Sea & 62 Other Poems is a bilingual book, written in English and translated into Spanish. These 63 poems, chiefly about life Over-the-Hill, on New Providence, are, or attempt to be, the beating heart of life among Bahamians in the country's capital. The entire island upon which the capital sits is referred to as Nassau. It is there where these 63 poems, most of them, came into the word. There poems were forged by the tensions coupled with the beauty of life among Bahamians. They reflect the real life of the people in what is imagined to be a place for tourists and tourism. These poems are snatches of identity, the author's and his country's and it's people's.
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This ground-breaking book investigates and interprets Bahamian literature from its inception in 1724. The book uses textual analysis, a socio-historical approach, and the application of archetypes to literary criticism, in order to demonstrate the view that the Bahamian Black was the historical agent of change for the region's culture. The work is divided into two main sections: The first assesses Bahamian literary production from 1724 to 1953 when the Progressive Liberal Party was formed to fight for the rights of blacks and mulattos; the second analyzes Bahamian Literature from 1953 to 1992, the year in which the quincentennial of the encounter of Columbus and the indigenous people of the New World was celebrated. Dahl's critical analysis in Literature of the Bahamas 1724-1992 is a pioneer work that will spark interest in the Bahamian reading public and first-year College students. Especially useful to readers will be the short chapter introductions in Bahamian dialect and the preface which adopts the tone and linguistic strategies of the storyteller.
The present work concludes the important and monumental undertaking of Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People, creating the most thorough and comprehensive history yet written of a Caribbean country and its people. In the first volume Michael Craton and Gail Saunders traced the developments of a unique archipelagic nation from aboriginal times to the period just before emancipation. This long-awaited second volume offers a description and interpretation of the social developments of the Bahamas in the years from 1830 to the present. Volume Two divides this period into three chronological sections, dealing first with adjustments to emancipation by former masters and former ...
Who or what is Manjeri? "Manjeri: A Century of Love(Poems to sit upon, to die to)" is the third poetry book by Dickson Wasake the East African poet. It's a collection of some of his previously published works and also some of his newer "more revolutionary" pieces.
These poems of adoration, bewilderment and love are inspired by the author's living in Uganda during 2018. As always by this Bahamian author, there are clever turns of phrase and decipherable rhythm. If you are a fan of this author, you will utterly enjoy this, Obediah Michael Smith's 22nd book.