Compilation on the life and work of Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou (1919-2006), a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator. "Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression. LC copy imperfect: pages 187-192 printed upside down and inverted. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Promise fulfilled / Opal Palmer Adisa -- An outstanding cultural influencer / Olivia Grange -- A formidable woman / Percival J. Patterson -- Love Letta / Louise Bennett -- My mother, my friend / Fabian Coverley -- A strict but wonderful mother / Christine Swaby -- Tenky Miss Lou,tenky / Joan Andrea Hutchinson -- Together for life: Louse and Eric Coverley / Mervyn Morris -- One of the great joys of my life / Easton Lee -- Conversation, consultation, communication, celebration / Marjorie Whylie -- A journey of love / Barbara Gloudon -- Boonoonoonoos / Linda Gambrill -- You can't bury creativity / Neil Armstron -- A family connection / Lincoln Robinson -- Learning from her dynamics / Pauline Stone Myrie -- If the world was like Miss Lou / Bongo Herman -- Lessons from Miss Lou / Oliver Samuels -- Jamaican through and through / Franklyn Horace Campbell -- Miss Lou fe real / Paul Keens-Douglas -- Ac' chile, ac'! : she helped shape my life / Fae Ellington -- Memories of Rin Ding / Eric Douglas -- Being Miss Lou / Faith D'Aguilar -- Miss Lou, Miss Lou / Mutabarua -- Things my mother taught me / Lolita Knibb Phillips -- Reflections and memories / Pamela Appelt -- Mi just ike people / Louise Bennett-Coverley -- Noh Lickle Twang / Louse Bennett -- Speaking Jamaican talkin farin / Amina Blackwood Meeks -- Miss Lou we celebrating / Juliet Holness -- Keep we culcha alive / Patriica Reid-Waugh -- 1-2-3 Aunty Lou Lou / Michael Holgate -- Smile Queen / Ashli-Ann Douglas -- Eloquently expressed in Patwa / Jean Small -- Mi Miss you bad / Fabian M. Thomas -- We could be whoever she was / Velma Pollard -- Patwa pride / Melissa McKenzie -- A ring ding love afair / Kevin A. Ormsby -- For Miss Lou / Lileth H. Nelson -- Tan tuddy wid har pen / Shelley Sykes Coley - Bithday beach bonfire / Becerley Elaine Wright -- If it weren't for Miss Lou / Norma Darby -- Find de Riddim / Tejan GReen Waszak -- Mis Lou mek history / Beverley Lashley -- She find wi tung fi wi /Crutis Myrie -- Founder of the heritage singers in Canada / Grace Carter-Hendry Lyons -- Nva bi figatten : iconic Miss Lou / Jayna Shields -- Amazing grace / Kei Miller -- Ode to Miss Lou / Kalliah Whaynete Minto -- Our Jamaican queen comes to St Andrew High Shool / Margart Reckford Bernal -- From Miss Lou : 2019 scene / Davia Ellis -- Everytime . I am a Jamaican / Courtny Greaves -- Talk you talk regardless . Vivian Crawford -- Using the language of my hart / Farika Berhane -- Beneath the fold caricature / Tommy Ricketts -- Dutty tough (excerpt) / Louise Benett -- Slanguage / Cherry Natural -- My Jamaican tongue / Malach Smith -- She who laughs the revolution / Andrene Bonner -- Fowl pill bruk nes / Shirley Massey -- Andina / Deanne Kennedy -- Exilia / Donna A. Hope -- Bawl woman bawl! / Pamela Mordecai -- Tooth-ache / Ruth Howard -- Thelma's precious cargo / Kwame Dawes -- Di house / Delroy McGregor -- Licky licky / Kemar Cummings -- Miss Joyc mongrel dawg / Raul A. Davis -- Abeng in Beijing / Fabian M. Thomas -- My Chinaman jump to the riddim of Jah / Jean Lowrie-Chin -- '88 Storm / Christopher Allen -- Mi dear Sista Sandy / Sean C. Harrison -- Oii, Driva! / Sihle Atkinson -- Di jril a di ting / Annika Simone Rowe -- Cat / Ann-Margaret Lim -- Blak / Lattecha Willocks -- Puss and dawg luck / Alecia Maria Sawyers -- Fever grass / Mel Cooke -- Gum bwile / Lisa Gaye Taylor -- Walk good and ogood duppy walk wid yu / Alma Mockyen -- Ice cream Sundays / Schontal Moore -- Mi and di tief -/ Aisha Smith -- Bruce ghost / Maxine J. Brown -- Mathes shoes box / Antonia Valaire Queenie Queenie and colonial empire / Lillian Allen -- Goodnite / Linton Kwsi Johnson -- Nativity / Lasana M. Sekou -- Slavery in reverse / Emile Grant -- Pastor / Susan Lyctt Davis -- Evlyn's widom -/ Sonia S. Williams -- No more "Smalling up" of me / Jean Wilson -- Use my tongue wisely / Marlon Henry -- Jamaican women / Quewana Collman -- Mi name Jamaica / Owen Blakka Ellis -- Chanting down Babylon / Alexania Miller -- Louise go a country / Nadia L. Hohn -- Soun de Abeng fi nanny / Jan "Binta" Breeze -- Colonization in reverse / Louise Bennett -- "Pedestrian crosss" : sites of dislocation in "Postcolonial: Jamaica / Carolyn Cooper -- The truth must revael itslf / Klive Wlder -- Shifting bodies and missing commodities : Louse Bennet on the impacts of World War II on working-class Jamaians / Dalea Bean -- Miss Lou : organic intellectual of the Jamaican masses in her examination of racial politics / Ajamu Nangwaya -- The cunny Jamican 'Oman and the value of a postive counter-narrative / Donna Aza Wir-Soley -- The language quarrel in Jamica : a pedagogical conversation / Isis Semaj-Hall and L.A. Wanliss -- Stiching time together : meeting and greeting in Caribbean song / Hubert Devonish -- The poltics of language and identity in Jamaica : from Miss Lou to de bumpy hed gal / Carolyn Allen -- Celebrating Miss Lou's historical rcord : a Canadian perspective / Vivian Lewis -- Jamma language ketch a university / The Uwi Mona Library -- Archiving the lfie and works of a phenomenal woman : the Honourable Lousie Bennett Coverley / The National Library of Jamaica.
Summary:
"Miss Lou had the instinctive wisdom to relate language to identify. 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 ... " Beverly Manley-Duncan - Page 4 of Cover.
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