#jamaican literature

[sunl1tfields]

Bone, Yrsa Daley-Ward

#literature #my edit #mine #typo #typography #spilled words #african writers #black writers #black poetry #* #lit #african literature #black literature #jamaican literature #african lit #faves #edit #yrsa daley ward #bone #yrsa daley-ward #f2 #t

[gennsoup]

A man will suffer misery to get to the bottom of truth, but he will not suffer boredom.

Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

#Marlon James #Black Leopard Red Wolf #boredom #misery #truth #seek truth #Caribbean literature #Jamaican literature #fantasy literature #fantasy novel #fantasy #Dark Star Trilogy #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

[thebluesthour]

yet here in the cup of my word on the lip of my eyelid of light like a star in its syllable socket there is a cripple crack and hobble whorl of colour...

Kamau Brathwaite, from “Harbour”, Black + Blues

#lit #quotes #words #poetry #Kamau Brathwaite #Harbour #Black + Blues #jamaican literature #m #queued

[illustration-alcove]

Señor Salme’s illustration for Marlon James’s Moon Witch, Spider King.

#senor salme #marlon james #moon witch spider king #jamaican literature

[dradelcra]

Maybe if you read " Love Letter" by Louise Bennet Coverly then you'd calm down :/

#i love reading it #louise bennett coverly #big fan of miss lou #literature #jamaican literature #poetry #lil talks

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

#novella #novellas #harlem glory #harlem glory a fragment of aframerican life #claude mckay #black literature #jamaican american literature #jamaican literature #african american literature #american literature #20th century literature #english language literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls

[victorletras]

#redação #design #jamaican literature #Instagram

[waywordsstudio]

Expanded Review: "Skin Folk" by Nalo Hopkinson -

Not merely a collection of horror tales, Hopkinson expands the horror genre, never forgetting that stories are about character, only underscored by the supernatural. Offering breadth and depth, the only thing wanting in these tales is room to stretch for more still.

#bookworm #literature #book reviews #read read read #books #horror #nalo hopkinson #skin folk #riding the red #folk horror #caribbean literature #jamaican literature #Youtube

[shotbyshe]

Words of the Day

"Me likkle but me talawa" -- just want to put this here, 'cause I heard someone say it this week.

untoward:

Improper; unseemly.

Unfavorable or adverse.

Froward; perverse.

carceral:

Belonging to a prison.

Of or pertaining to prison.

A pergola is most commonly an outdoor garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support cross-beams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained.

~~~

Though similar, a pergola is different from a gazebo.

#me likkle but mi talawa #Words of the Day #words #dictionary #literature #patois #jamaican #jamaican patois #language #definition #untoward #carceral #pergola #american fiction #Me likkle but me talawa

[jelly-o630]

Me about to leave the house

My mom: Where are you going

*planning on going by myself to the cramped, tiny ass bookstore we have in town that if I were claustrophobic would terrify me that’s at the end of this alley between two halves of a run down strip mall that gets very dark at the end but is run by this extremely kind, older, Jamaican woman who has read 10x as many books as I have/ has similar literary tastes to me and thus always has great recommendations and 9/10 has one of her book club members in there who are all also older people with the wildest stories to tell and likewise great book recommendations and conversation*

Me: Oh just to hang out with friends, why?

My mom: Just wondering where you’re going

#bookstores #local bookstores #Books Ink #god I love that place #reading #literature #I love when she recommends me Jamaican authors since I know so little about them #she really is a gem #she single handedly brings up the interestingness rate of the boring suburbia of where I live by like 90% #any place can be interesting if you know where to look

[lilianeruyters]

Jonathan Escoffery || If I Survive You

Booker Prize Shortlist 2023 Mixed feelings about If I Survive You, mostly caused by the fact that it hinges between being a novel and a collection of short stories, which I am not a great fan of. Trelawny is the person who unites all the stories. To be honest: he is not exactly a likeable person. On the contrary, he is the type of main character you feel little sympathy for despite all the…

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#reading is fun #4th estate #American literature #Booker Prize #Booker Prize Shortlist 2023 #Great Novel #Great reading #Harper Collins #If I Survive You #Jamaican writer #Jonathan Escoffery #literature

[gennsoup]

A time surely comes when grief is nothing but a sickness, and I had grown sick of sickness.

Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf

#Marlon James #Black Leopard Red Wolf #Darkstar Trilogy #grief #grief quotes #sadness #sadness quotes #recovery #Jamaican literature #fantasy literature #fantasy novel #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.

It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.

And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.

It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.

Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"

No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?

This is how deep colonialism runs.

#tw racism #critical #this isn't even about any specific media anymore #it's a pattern #and it's a pattern that seems so obvious #but it's so omnipresent that even the most progressive folks can't seem to recognize how terrifying it is #these tropes were written in blood

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Cover for James Berry’s A Thief in the Village and other stories, illustrated by aitch.

#james berry #a thief in the village #aitch #book covers #jamaican literature #british literature

[punkeropercyjackson]

Accurate and non-bigoted Batfam headcanons

Dick:Master chef,optimistic ray of sunshine but also a genius with a lot of edge,brownskin romani with a hooked nose and a wolfcut,eldest daughter,married to Kory and Roy and Lian,Mar'i,Jake and Cara(Dickroy kid)'s loving mom and demisexual who experiences sexual harrasment often due to objectifying and degrading assumptions but is defended by her spouses and her other loved ones

Jason:Darkskin afrolatino who's heavily connected to his culture,goth punk asshole who tries to act cool but is actually an absolute loser,fucked up ass morals with a proper redemption arc and no coddling,gamer and literature nerd with a neapolitan food addiction,straightedge as a coping mechanism,only dates his friends and weirdgirls(I.e trans women,autistic women and women of color)and Rhato's only DC-assigned member is Artemis while the rest of the run gets an entire rehaul

Tim:Half white native(cherokee),energy drink addict,narcoleptic,has the personality of a normal traumatized teenage boy,Jack was an ass dad but not physically abusive and Janet was the perfect mom,no special powers,treated nicely by everyone but also bullied by everyone because he deserves both and enjoys both too and his adult hero name is Hawk

Cass:Brown monolid eyes and light brown skin,butchgender transbian,tradgoth,makes her own team called 'The Unbreakables' consisted entierly of parental abuse victims,unhinged and unrestrained,very kind and has a big soft side but she's mostly really rough,eternal Jason beef and he knows not to test her and the only Batkid who's Batman

Duke:Afrocurls fade,adopted by Bruce officially and is the 5th Robin instead of Damian,an Outlaw,him and Jason are eachother's Robin,has reality warping powers that made the N52 never happen,has a black girl love interest that's the Starfire to his Robin,post-Rhato makes his own team called 'The Lights' and his adult mantle is Eris(he's so femme and my tag for him is 'Signal of Hope and Chaos' for obvious reasons)

Damian:Brownskin and hook nosed like Dick but in a distinctively arab way,properly potrayed as the brutally irreversibly traumatized abuse victim he is instead of 'the demon child',gets a healing arc and NOT a redemption arc because he's never done anything wrong in his entire fucking life,Maps is his love interest and his team is the All New Teen Titans consisting of a proper cast and writing like the Rhato fixit(including Nell being Batgirl and neither aged up Jon or D*mijon)

Stephanie:Blasian specifically half south korean and half jamaican(her last name is Brown)with black butterfly locs,fat flat queen,full force pastel punk aesthetic and lifestyle and vigilanteism,part of The Unbreakables and was a 90s Young Justice member,Cass' soulmate by choice in every universe and vice versa,mentored by Talia as Robin and is Batwoman with her own solo run about it

Babs:Black/white mixed natural redhead,butch trans lesbian married to Dinah,stays Oracle and is good friends with Kory,highkey a losergirl but she makes it work and something of a friendly old soul

Bruce:Proudly jewish,jumbled mess of a man who fucks up a lot and does good just as much and leaves the adoption of troubled but good kids to his now grown kids because he's a bit too tired to raise any more and that's perfectly okay

All of them:Transgendah with da 'tism

#batfam #batfanon #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #cassandra cain #duke thomas #damian wayne #stephanie brown #babara gordon #bruce wayne #battinson supremacy #dick grayson:trans woman extrodinare #dickkoryroy #koriand'r #roy harper #lian harper #mar'i grayson #jake grayson #cara grayson-harper #afrolatino jason supremacy #cherokee tim drake #blasian stephanie brown #t4t stephcass #t4t dinahbabs #t4t damimaps #trans 4 trans and autistic 4 autistic found family realness #💌 #summerposting #thomquez

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

#novella #novellas #falling in love with hominids #nalo hopkinson #black literature #jamaican canadian literature #canadian literature #21st century literature #english language literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls