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Jamaica
Miss Lou
Patwa
Theatre
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- ISBN 9789766408879
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 157 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2021
- Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
- Publication City/Country: JM
- Product Form: Paperback
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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
Opal
Palmer Adisa is the outgoing University Director of the Institute
for Gender and Development Studies – Regional Coordinating Office, the
University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. An award-winning writer of twenty
published books, she is a cultural activist and a gender specialist.
