100+ Voices for Miss Lou
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100+ Voices for Miss Lou

Poetry, Tributes, Interviews, Essays

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eBook - ePub

100+ Voices for Miss Lou

Poetry, Tributes, Interviews, Essays

About this book

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

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Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Louise Bennett-Coverley
  4. Introduction
  5. An Outstanding Cultural Influencer
  6. A Formidable Woman
  7. Love Letta
  8. My Mother, My Friend
  9. A Strict but Wonderful Mother
  10. Tenky Miss Lou, Tenky
  11. Together for Life*
  12. One of the Great Joys of My Life
  13. Conversation, Consultation, Communication, Celebration
  14. A Journey of Love
  15. Boonoonoonoos
  16. You Can’t Bury Creativity
  17. A Family Connection
  18. Learning from Her Dynamics
  19. If the World Was Like Miss Lou
  20. Lessons from Miss Lou
  21. Jamaican Through and Through
  22. Miss Lou fe Real
  23. “Ac’ chile, ac’!”
  24. Memories of Ring Ding
  25. Being Miss Lou
  26. Miss Lou, Miss Lou
  27. Things My Mother Taught Me
  28. Reflections and Memories
  29. “Mi just like people”
  30. Noh Lickle Twang
  31. Speaking Jamaican, Talkin Farin’*
  32. Miss Lou We Celebrating
  33. Keep We Culcha Alive
  34. 1-2-3 Aunty Lou Lou
  35. Smile Queen
  36. Eloquently Expressed in Patwa
  37. Mi Miss You Bad
  38. We Could Be Whoever She Was
  39. Patwa Pride
  40. A Ring Ding Love Affair
  41. For Miss Lou
  42. Tan Tuddy wid Har Pen
  43. Birthday Beach Bonfire
  44. If It Weren’t for Miss Lou . . .
  45. Find de Riddim
  46. Miss Lou Mek History
  47. She Find Wi Tung fi Wi
  48. Founder of the Heritage Singers in Canada
  49. Neva Bi Figatten
  50. Amazing Grace
  51. Ode to Miss Lou
  52. Our Jamaican Queen Comes to St Andrew High School
  53. From Miss Lou
  54. Everytime, I Am a Jamaican
  55. Talk Yuh Talk Regardless
  56. Using the Language of My Heart
  57. Beneath the Folk Caricature
  58. Dutty Tough
  59. Slanguage
  60. My Jamaican Tongue
  61. She Who Laughs the Revolution
  62. Fowl Pill Bruk Nes
  63. Adina
  64. Exilia
  65. Bawl Woman Bawl
  66. Tooth-Ache*
  67. Thelma’s Precious Cargo*
  68. Di House
  69. Licky Licky
  70. Miss Joyce Mongrel Dawg
  71. Abeng in Beijing
  72. My Chinaman Jump to the Riddim of Jah
  73. ’88 Storm
  74. Mi Dear Sista Sandy
  75. Oiii, Driva!
  76. Di Jril a di Ting
  77. Cat
  78. Black
  79. Puss and Dawg Luck
  80. Fever Grass
  81. Gum Bwile
  82. Walk Good and Good Duppy Walk wid Yu
  83. Ice Cream Sundays
  84. Mi and di Tief
  85. Bruce Ghost
  86. Matches Shoes Box
  87. Queenie Queenie and Colonial Empire
  88. Goodnite
  89. Nativity*
  90. Slavery in Reverse
  91. Pastor
  92. Evelyn’s Wisdom
  93. No More “Smalling Up” of Me*
  94. Use My Tongue Wisely
  95. Jamaican Women
  96. Mi Name Jamaica
  97. Chanting Down Babylon
  98. Louise Go a Country
  99. Soun de Abeng fi Nanny
  100. Colonization in Reverse
  101. “Pedestrian Crosses”
  102. The Truth Must Reveal Itself
  103. Shifting Bodies and Missing Commodities
  104. Miss Lou
  105. The Cunny Jamaican ’Oman and the Value of a Positive Counter-Narrative
  106. The Language Quarrel in Jamaica
  107. Stitching Time Together
  108. The Politics of Language and Identity in Jamaica: From Miss Lou to De Bumpy Head Gal
  109. Celebrating Miss Lou’s Historical Record
  110. Jamma Language Ketch a University
  111. Archiving the Life and Works of a Phenomenal Woman
  112. Contributors