Tracing Jaja
Title | Tracing Jaja PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Kellman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 113 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Barbados |
ISBN | 9781845235055 |
Based on the life of accomplished merchant prince King Ja Ja of Opobo, Anthony Kellman has created a rich and warm work of historical fiction. Posited as the main obstacle to British imperial interests in the palm oil-rich Niger delta, once omnipotent King Ja Ja is exiled to the West Indies for the final four years of his life. Focuses on the last four months of Jaja's life and the ironies of his position in Barbados where Whites dominated all aspects of life and race prejudice was nakedly expressed, but where many Black Barbadians were piqued to discover the presence of an African king amongst them. Weaving between the official records and the satirical and cynical traditions of the Tuk song. Traces the emerging love between an ailing African king in exile and his Barbadian servant Becka which brings new life to his battered body and spirit, and the Barbadian landscape lifts his despair, the king never loses his sense of the injustice done to him or gives up his desire to return home.
Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean
Title | Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Lawson Welsh |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2019-07-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1783486627 |
How do diasporic writers negotiate their identities through and with food? What tensions emerge between the local and the global, between the foodways of the past and of the present? How are concepts of culinary ‘tradition’ and ‘authenticity’ articulated in Caribbean cookery writing? Drawing on a rich and varied tradition of Caribbean writings, Food, Text & Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean shows how the creation of food and the creation of narrative are intimately linked cultural practices which can tell us much about each other. Historically, Caribbean writers have explored, defined and re-affirmed their different cultural, ethnic, caste, class and gender identities by writing about what, when and how they eat. Images of feeding, feasting, fasting and other food rituals and practices, as articulated in a range of Caribbean writings, constitute a powerful force of social cohesion and cultural continuity. Moreover, food is often central to the question of what it means to be Caribbean, especially in diasporic and globalized contexts. Suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars, the book offers the first study of food and writing in an Anglophone Caribbean context.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food
Title | The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food PDF eBook |
Author | Lorna Piatti-Farnell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 1135 |
Release | 2018-04-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351216007 |
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies, with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts, the volume illuminates the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature.
Man-Leopard Murders
Title | Man-Leopard Murders PDF eBook |
Author | David Pratten |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2007-06-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0748631003 |
This book is an account of murder and politics in Africa, and an historical ethnography of southern Annang communities during the colonial period. Its narrative leads to events between 1945 and 1948 when the imperial gaze of police, press and politicians was focused on a series of mysterious deaths in south-eastern Nigeria attributed to the 'man-leopard society'. These murder mysteries, reported as the 'biggest, strangest murder hunt in the world', were not just forensic but also related to the broad historical impact of commercial, Christian and colonial aid relations on Annang society.
La Torre
Title | La Torre PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Puerto Rico |
ISBN |
Tracing Jaja
Title | Tracing Jaja PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Kellman |
Publisher | Peepal Tree Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781845232993 |
Based on the life of accomplished merchant prince King Ja Ja of Opobo, Anthony Kellman has created a rich and warm work of historical fiction. Posited as the main obstacle to British imperial interests in the palm oil-rich Niger delta, once omnipotent King Ja Ja is exiled to the West Indies for the final four years of his life. Focuses on the last four months of Jaja's life and the ironies of his position in Barbados where Whites dominated all aspects of life and race prejudice was nakedly expressed, but where many Black Barbadians were piqued to discover the presence of an African king amongst them. Weaving between the official records and the satirical and cynical traditions of the Tuk song. Traces the emerging love between an ailing African king in exile and his Barbadian servant Becka which brings new life to his battered body and spirit, and the Barbadian landscape lifts his despair, the king never loses his sense of the injustice done to him or gives up his desire to return home.
Spanish Alphabet, Tracing and Coloring Book
Title | Spanish Alphabet, Tracing and Coloring Book PDF eBook |
Author | Jaja Jaja Books |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 56 |
Release | 2018-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781986032131 |
Spanish Alphabet, Tracing and coloring Book for children ages 3 and up to learn the letters of the Spanish alphabet and practice their motor skills. This fun book is carefully designed and reviewed by our experienced teaching staff to promote your child's early learning success with over 50 pages of fun activities. Spanish Alphabet, Tracing and Coloring book contains a variety of pictures that will engage and help introduce your child to coloring and the to the eye-hand coordination skills development that are essential for early childhood learning.