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    • Dudley J. Thompson- Book Launch (Copy 3)

    • Dudley J. Thompson- Book Launch (Copy 3)
    • Books-Marketing; Authors, Jamaican; Thompson, Dudley J.
    • Another version of the overview of Dudley Thompson's book, which looks at significant contributors to black history. It also gives an insight into what motivated him to write this book. This version also has handwritten annotations.
    • Dudley Thompson Collection
    • Dudley J. Thompson - Book Launch (Copy 4)

    • Dudley J. Thompson - Book Launch (Copy 4)
    • Books-Marketing; Authors, Jamaican; Thompson, Dudley J.
    • Another version of the overview of Dudley Thompson's book, which looks at significant contributors to black history. It also gives an insight into what motivated him to write this book. This version has handwritten annotations.
    • Dudley Thompson Collection
    • Drums in the night

    • Drums in the night
    • Witchcraft ; Obeah
    • The sounds of the drums in the distance tortured her robbing her of her security and of her beloved Tom. Together they had openly mocked the power of the obeah men when they first came to the village, but all that changed when crops began to fail,...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Consider the screever

    • Consider the screever
    • Biographical fiction
    • The author explains how he came to give up his “… comparatively secure and carefree life of a screever ( a pavement artist)” to become a scribe – one who writes little pieces for the newspaper. None of this would have happened if he had not been...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Consider the screever

    • Consider the screever
    • Biographical fiction
    • The author explains how he came to give up his “… comparatively secure and carefree life of a screever ( a pavement artist)” to become a scribe – one who writes little pieces for the newspaper. None of this would have happened if he had not been...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Consider the limpet

    • Consider the limpet
    • Interpersonal relations ; Boarding houses - Fiction
    • The author presents an unfiltered observation of the minutiae of daily life around him. This includes his landlady complaining about the meter, the dog waiting to be walked, Anita talking to the parrot, Mr. Zacca coming down late to breakfast and...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Consider the limpet

    • Consider the limpet
    • Interpersonal relations ; Boarding houses - Fiction
    • The author presents an unfiltered observation of the minutiae of daily life around him. This includes his landlady complaining about the meter, the dog waiting to be walked, Anita talking to the parrot, Mr. Zacca coming down late to breakfast and...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • City stricken to the bone

    • City stricken to the bone
    • Hurricanes ; Social classes ; City and town life
    • The author presents a microcosm of city life including : “wealthy bourgeoisie” who lives uptown; the “ pale stenographer in the administrative office; men and women living in “teeming shacks”; and “the… vice-ridden, violent myrmidons and the poor...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Christmas Eve

    • Christmas Eve
    • Christmas stories; City and town life; Rural life; Interpersonal relations; loss
    • Christmas Eve is usually a time of food, laughter and good cheer, but for some like Connie, there is little cause to celebrate. In the country, she listens to her family’s chatter as they express their wishes for a better new year. Mass Jim talks...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Barometer falling

    • Barometer falling
    • Interpersonal relations; Women
    • The author gives a bird’s eye view of life among a variety of people on a given day and concludes with the story of Connie whose dog had bitten her friend’s child. Every day Connie feared the child’s mother would confront her with a medical bill,...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Background to Arthur

    • Background to Arthur
    • Best friends ; Biographical fiction
    • The author recalls the life story of his best friend, Arthur, who grew up in a church orphanage that believed in raising “ children on religion and starvation”. The harsh cruelty with which he was treated as a child and later hardships in life did...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Anything can Happen

    • Anything can Happen
    • Love stories ; City and town life
    • The bar serves as a meeting place for various people: a discontented wife who does not want to stay home with her child; a disgruntled lover, kept from his beloved by her brother; three dangerous looking men who later feature in a rape; and a...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Another day

    • Another day
    • City and town life ; Death ; Nationalism
    • The author describes a series of events that makes up a typical day in the city such as a bus catching fire; a group of high-brows debating whether there is any real West Indian culture; ordinary workmen recently paid going off in the hills to...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
    • Angela King

    • Angela King
    • King, Angela; University of the West Indies-Degrees; Degrees, Academic
    • Angela King, whose roots trace back to St. Ann and Morant Bay, Jamaica, has been bestowed with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. She has exemplified a steadfast commitment to justice and freedom throughout her life. Notably, in 1997, she assumed...
    • Citations to Recipients of UWI Honorary Degree
    • And one

    • And one
    • Philosophy ; Love stories
    • 1,461 persons perished aboard the torpedoed vessel, and the odd figure of one makes the protagonist ponder the meaning of life as “…The vastness of the heavens and its stars made him think of infinity and the relative insignificance of a lone...
    • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles

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