100+ Voices for Miss Lou : Poetry, Tributes, Interviews, Essays
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9766408874
ISBN-13
9789766408879
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press
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University of the West Indies Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
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GB
Publication Date
Dec 31st, 2021
Print length
452 Pages
Weight
680 grams
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22.60 x 15.70 x 3.00 cms
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Literary essaysEssaysAnthologiesAnthologies (non-poetry)
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There is an interrelationship between language - the words we use - and our identity. In that regard, Miss Lou helped us to remember who we are. However, mental slavery is still with us. While we continue to deny our own language, our way of expressing ourselves, there is no escaping the fact that our language is part of our identity as Jamaicans.
Miss Lou had the instinctive wisdom to relate
language to identity. As a people who have long since lost our identity, we
continue to search for it.
There is an interrelationship between language – the words we use – and our identity. In that regard, Miss Lou helped us to remember who we are. However, mental slavery is still with us. While we continue to deny our own language, our way of expressing ourselves, there is no escaping the fact that our language is part of our identity as Jamaicans.
Although a lot of our unique cultural DNA disappeared during the Middle Passage, Miss Lou had the wisdom and the courage to grasp what remained of that DNA and give voice to the voiceless. She did it with such decisiveness that I have lived to see the day when Patwa, or Jamaican Language as it is properly called, has taken its rightful place as an important part of our identity.
That is Miss Lou’s legacy. - Beverly Manley-Duncan
There is an interrelationship between language – the words we use – and our identity. In that regard, Miss Lou helped us to remember who we are. However, mental slavery is still with us. While we continue to deny our own language, our way of expressing ourselves, there is no escaping the fact that our language is part of our identity as Jamaicans.
Although a lot of our unique cultural DNA disappeared during the Middle Passage, Miss Lou had the wisdom and the courage to grasp what remained of that DNA and give voice to the voiceless. She did it with such decisiveness that I have lived to see the day when Patwa, or Jamaican Language as it is properly called, has taken its rightful place as an important part of our identity.
That is Miss Lou’s legacy. - Beverly Manley-Duncan
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