name used by the native Taino‚ "Yamaye‚" as "Xaymaca." The Taino word is purported to mean "many springs." The abbreviated name‚ "Ja" and the Rastafarian term "Jamdung" (Jamdown) are used by some residents‚ along with "Yaahd" (Yard)‚ used mainly by Jamaicans abroad‚ in reference to the deterritorialization of the national culture. Location and Geography. Jamaica‚ one of the Greater Antilles‚ is situated south of Cuba. Divided into fourteen parishes‚ it is 4‚244 square miles (10‚990 square kilometers)
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through interaction which brings fourth a folkloric process. The Afro-Caribbean folklore of the Archipelago is a mixture of the African‚ the British‚ and the Creole aspects distributed through a cultural continuum of variations. The members of the elite develop certain forms of local standardise practices of archaic British culture and the Creole people trigger-off a series Caribbean syncretism with a mixture of Amerindian and African feeling. In ancient times‚ the tradition of the Spoken Word was
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parents. For example‚ Kincaid refers to the shape of England as a leg of mutton which is nasty‚ old‚ smelly lamb (showing her dislike towards England) Although she compares it to a jewel‚ she concludes that only Englanders deserve to wear it‚ as if Antiguans are not worthy. She feels as though her own people do not belong in this culture‚ “They [Englanders] wore it well and they wore it everywhere.” Repetitively‚ Kincaid says “Made in England” so much‚ that it is as if every object she encounters comes
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As I sat nervously in the back seat of our Toyota Highlander‚ I looked down to my brand new Reeboks. It was the first day of 2nd grade‚ and I was on my way to a new school. I was going from a class of students of Jamaican‚ Indian‚ and Dominican heritage to a school that was a mere 5% African American. It was an absolute shock to me. I knew I was different‚ and that fact hung like a cloud over my time at school. My classmates were proud of their European heritages and their families. They spoke of
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scholar Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1974) Creolization is the process through which the various groups in the Caribbean society absorb each other’s cultural product. Our Caribbean culture as we know it today was born out of many different cultures as the Jamaican national motto reads ‘Out of Many One People’. This change in the pre-emancipation days was brought about by the main components of acculturation and interculturation. Acculturation where the enslaved Africans were forced to assimilate the
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In this passage‚ Jamaica Kincaid articulates upon how foreign power vastly altered the lives of Antiguans‚ by affirming that they have been ripped away from their families and homeland. Kincaid uses word choice which exhibits her frustration toward the Antiguans‚ who cheers at “some frumpy‚ wrinkled-up person passing by in a carriage waving at the crowd.” Kincaid juxtaposes Antiguans to orphans to further relate her feelings about the people of Antigua. To create a harsh tone consisting tragedy and
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also has multiple meanings. These meanings are based on different aspects of the mixing of cultures. This can be a mixing or change in religion‚ music‚ food‚ and skin color. The latter being the one most often adjoined with the term creolization or Creole. Lorna Goodison outlines features and the story of her great grandmother and grandmother as a way to show creolization. Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s piece Creolization in Jamaica
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associations in the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon. The Beguine is a dance and music form‚ similar to a slow rumba‚ that was popular in the 1930s‚ coming from the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique‚ where in local Creole Beke or Begue means a White person‚ and Beguine is the female form. It is a combination of Latin folk dance and French ballroom dance‚ and is a spirited but slow‚ close dance with a roll of the hips. Bruckins‚ is a Jamiacan dance performed primarily
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School Based Assessment Name: Mellisa Walker Subject: Caribbean History School: St. Hugh’s High Candidate Number: Centre Number: Territory: Jamaica Teacher: Ms. Hyman Year: 2013 Theme: Caribbean History Topic: West African cultural forms and its presence in the British Caribbean up 1838. Statement of the Problem Is it true to suggest that there was a strong presence of African cultural forms within the British Caribbean plantation society up to 1838? Rationale
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spent her childhood under the British colonial cultural systems. Kincaid is an example of a travelee who wrote postcolonialism works expressing her anger towards the injustice and exploitation colonialism caused and its continuing effects on the Antiguan
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