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The Cassidy/JLU orthography is a phonemic system for writing Jamaican Patois originally developed by the linguist Frederic Cassidy. [1] It is used as the writing system for the Jamaican Wikipedia, known in Patois, and written using the Cassidy/JLU system, as the Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia.
This is a list of Jamaican writers, including writers either from or associated with Jamaica This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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.
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was 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 ("nation language"), [2] establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression.
Frederic Gomes Cassidy (October 10, 1907 – June 14, 2000) was a Jamaican-born linguist and lexicographer.He was a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and founder of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) where he was also the chief editor from 1962 until his death. [1]
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Jamaica is an upper-middle-income country [15] with an economy heavily dependent on tourism; it has an average of 4.3 million tourists a year. [20] Jamaica is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with power vested in the bicameral Parliament of Jamaica, consisting of an appointed Senate and a directly elected House of Representatives. [9]
Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. [2] He received a BA from the University of the West Indies, an MFA from New York University, and completed graduate studies at the University of Utah.