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Jamaican-born award-winning writer Kereen Getten picks five of the best books exploring rich Jamaican identities

For celebrated actor Zahra Newman, Louise Bennett’s iconic collection of poems, Jamaica Labrish, is a reminder of the power of owning your own history.

THE past week has been punctuated with music and poetry, beginning with the talented Alpha Institute band playing and dancing to the ska beat, birthed at the Alpha Boys’ School. Last Sunday, the...

Caribbean literature, literary works of the Caribbean area written in Spanish, French, or English. The literature of the Caribbean has no indigenous tradition. The pre-Columbian American Indians left few rock carvings or inscriptions (petroglyphs), and their oral traditions did not survive 16th-century Spanish colonization. The West Africans who replaced them were also without a written tradition, so for about 400 years Caribbean literature was an offshoot and imitation of the models of the colonial powers—Spain, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands. Caribbean writers, however, were n...