Books I get in Jamaica last month...

[Magician]

<span style="font-weight: bold">Meck Mi Tell Yuh</span> - Joan Andrea Hutchinson

Meck Mi Tell Yuh is a selection of Jamaican language writings in verse and prose by Joan Andrea Hutchinson. The pieces, which teck bad ting meck laugh, portray and comment on many aspects of Jamaican life. A number of the items have been previously published on cassette or CD.

J$1200


<span style="font-weight: bold">The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories</span>

Our ambition for this anthology is that it will engage, entertain, and inspire its readers, whether they are new to Caribbean writing or already committed to the literature of the region. To that end we have chosen stories from acrosss the wider Caribbean - though predominantly from 'the cricket playing West Indies' - which seem to us both distinctly 'of' the region and yet accessible to a wide readership. The collection contains sufficient surprises to keep even the most avid student of West Indian writing turning pages while including enough excellent stories from the other landguage traditions to reming readers that the Caribbean is a multilingual, multiethnic space.

J$1810

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<span style="font-weight: bold">A Jamaican Storyteller's Tale</span> - Lorrimer Burford

Underpinned by common Jamaican themes, A Jamaican Storyteller's Tale tells teh story of a young man intent on saving an aspect of his heritage that is dying - the storytelling. He is heavily influenced by his father's skill at relating these stories. When this family migrates, he comes face to face with the possibility of losing this part of his heritage forever. By merging these tales with the story of this young man, Burford skilfully creates a supernatural synthesis which captures and tantalizes the reader.

J$695

<span style="font-weight: bold">Song of Jamaica</span> - Hector Grant

Weaving as a backdrop the changing scenery of the Jamaican lifestyle and poignantly painting a picture of the Jamaica we all dreamed of, the authos in this inspiring story leaves us with a sense that good will triumph over evil, as he follows the failures and successes of Septy and Sammy in their travels through Manchester, Clarendon, Kingston, Panama and the USA.

J$1135

[Magician]

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So far I'm halfway though the first one, Meck Mi Tell Yuh.

If you're a fan of Andrea Hutchinson, you'll love this book full of her funny monologues and poems. Some have called her odern day Miss Lou, and I see the resamblance in some of her writing to that of Miss Lou.

For those of you who don't know A. Hutchinson, here's a clip:

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Here's some parts from a couple poems:


<span style="font-style: italic">Bleach It Lickle More</span>
(Bleach is seen as a cure all for some Jamaican helpers)

Singer a one smaddy dat sing song
Teacher a one smaddy dat teach
Doctor a one smaddy dat look after sick
An helper a one smaddy dat bleach

[...]

Fi mi Mavis bleach red towel an black tee shirt
All di green carpet pon di floor
It come een like she have one sickness name
Bleach it lickle more

[...]

Imagine, wah day mi buy one orange bathsuit
Dah plan fi go a beach
Well yuh waan fi see how it fayva leopard skin
Sake a Mavis an di bleach

[...]

Yessiday mi hide di bleach fi save mi clothes
An save miself from shock
Mi call from work mi lickle bway tell mi seh
Mavis gawn a shop

&quot;She say yuh figet fi leave out di bleach Mama&quot;
Mi heart stop fi a while
Den mi fling dung ebry ting an fly go home
An a Mavis dat a smile

Hear her &quot;Mi teck mi owna money go buy di bleach mam&quot;
Mi polka dot blouse inna her han
&quot;Di blouse wen too tan bad an full a spotty spotty
So mi bleach out everyone&quot;

[...}




Madda Lumba

Yuh bank a collapse, yuh fortunes tun dung
Yuh back deh gainst di wall
If yuh want a quick fix then Madda Lumba
Is di name yuh haffi call

An mi a nuh nuh lickly pyaw pyaw obeah woman
Mi is very modernise
Travel first class, an have mi business cyard
Fully computerise

Yuh cyan reach mi pon lan phone, cellular, email
Yuh does not haffi fret
An www Madda Lumba dot com, mi dat
For mi on di internet

Mi have more facilities dan Joh read bout
My service a di bes
Mi nuh gi bath again, mi put yuh inna di jacuzzi
Fi melt away yuh stress

[...]

An fi mi days of tan up over pot pan fire done
Eh, after mi nuh slave
Any mixture weh need fi heat or bwile
Into mi microwave

[...]

An anybody try gi mi bounce cheque mi sorry fi dem
For dem out a luck
By di nex day dem feel some brute pain a lick dem
Caw fi mi obeah wuck

So fi luck in love, long life an prosperity
An fi stop economy from crash
Remember www Madda Lumba dot com
But Hi, doan figet mi cash

[Bizzy]

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well mi read all dem deh except mek mi tell yuh

[Magician]

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Which one you like the best?
(Nuh bodda spile di ending thou)

[Bizzy]

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Sammy dead, sammy dead, sammy dead o

da one deh

[Bizzy]

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couple other books i bought in the airport an had posted thm on here