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100+ Voices for Miss Lou: Poetry, Tributes, Interviews, Essays

by Opal Palmer Adisa
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789766408879
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of the West Indies Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 452
  • Original Price: USD 50.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 681 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Caribbean & Latin American

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

Palmer Adisa, Opal: - "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.

"

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