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This is a list of Jamaican women writers, including women writers either from or associated with Jamaica
Jamaican women dramatists and playwrights (5 P) H. Jamaican women historians (3 P) J. ... Jamaican women short story writers (9 P) Jamaican women songwriters (1 C, 2 P)
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This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Jamaican dramatists and playwrights. It includes dramatists and playwrights that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Identifying as biracial and bisexual, Cliff, who had both Jamaican and American citizenship, used her voice to create a body of work filled with prose poetry, novels, and short stories. Her writings were enriched by the power, privilege and pain of her multi-locatedness to creatively reimagine Caribbean identity.
Jamaican Thomas MacDermot (1870–1933) is credited with fostering the creation of Jamaican literature. According to critic Michael Hughes, MacDermot was "probably the first Jamaican writer to assert the claim of the West Indies to a distinctive place within English-speaking culture," [2] and his Becka's Buckra Baby [3] as the beginning of modern Caribbean literature.
Jamaican women writers (10 C, 25 P) D. Jamaican dramatists and playwrights (2 C, 15 P) J. ... Jamaican short story writers (1 C, 7 P) Jamaican songwriters (5 C, 1 P)
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