Jamaica alexander bustamante biography of alberta
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The Gleaner NA July Special Edition
3. 1965: Martin Luther and Coretta King’s visit to Jamaica - June 20 4. 1964: Marcus Garvey was declared the first national hero and in 1965,Sir Alexander Bustamante (founder of the JLP) and Sir Norman Manley (founder of the PNP) awared the Order of National Hero. 5. 1966: Ethiopan Emperor Haille Selaise visits - April 21 6. 1968: UWI student protest and The Rodney Disturbance of 1968. The riots, which ensued asWalter Rodney was a lecturer at UWI, Mona campus, were further awakening of “black and economic consciousness” in university population, spilling over into the general population and worldwide interest in international issues. This was the year prior to my immigrating to Canada and I was living in Kingston at the time. How was Jamaica viewed by Canada over the years and especially since Independence? My personal perspective of Canada and that of Canadians of Jamaicans was quite positive prior to my immigrating to Canada. After all, my sist
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Issues
Jamaican fiction published in the 1960s was fundamentally pessimistic. These writings drew from regional ontologies of religious millenarianism, colonial abjection and racial damnation as well as existentialist philosophies of Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre to offer representations of pessimisms that embraced life’s absurd futility rather than its abject hopelessness. Reading the corpus of this Jamaican literary archive—twelve novels and one memoir, I examine the heterogeneous nature of the decade’s literary pessimisms—best characterized as a sensibility of radical skepticism, which approached the absurdity of the current conjuncture by deploying critical distance to cast doubt on the past, the present and the very idea of single-island sovereign futures. I resituate this independence era’s literature by identifying its multitudinous plotlines that included resentment, betrayal, disillusion, disappointment, detachment, shame and contempt. Thus, rather than understandi
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