Crime and Creativity in Jamaica: A Conversation: Kwame Dawes, Orlando Patterson., Deborah Thomas and Colin Channer, moderator
Sunday, Nov. 18, 11:30 a.m., Room 8502 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Kwame Dawes
Jubilation!: Poems Celebrating 50 Years of Jamaican Independence (Peepal Tree Press, $19.95), edited by Kwame Dawes, features more than 50 contemporary Jamaican poets who reflect in outspoken, meditative, humorous, and outrageous ways upon the historical and existential moment of Jamaican independence. Dawes is a poet, an editor, and the author of 17 books, including Bob Marley and Red. He is the founder and director of the University of South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the programmer for the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica.
Orlando Patterson
Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Patterson is the author of three novels: The Children of Sisyphus; An Absence of Ruins; and Die the Long Day.
Deborah A. Thomas
Deborah A. Thomas is Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica; and Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and The Politics of Culture in Jamaica; and co-editor of the volume Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness. Thomas was also editor of the journal Transforming Anthropology, and currently sits on the editorial boards of American Anthropologist and Social and Economic Studies. Thomas was also co-director and co-producer of the documentary film, Bad Friday: Rastafari After Coral Gardens, which chronicles violence in Jamaica through the eyes of its most iconic community.
Colin Channer
Kingston Noir (Akashic Books, $15.95) edited by Colin Channer, takes readers to the dark side of Jamaica’s capital city. Award-winning Jamaican authors such as Marlon James, Leone Ross, and Thomas Glave balance menace and humor in this latest entry in the popular noir anthology series. “. . . darker and deeper than any before . . .”—The Huffington Post. Colin Channer's many works of fiction include the national bestselling novel Waiting In Vain, which was a Critic's Choice selection of the Washington Post. His personal essays and reviews have appeared in, among other places, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His list of academic appointments includes Fannie Hurst Writer in Residence at Brandeis University, and Susan and Donald Newhouse Professor in Creative Writing at Wellesley College. Russell Banks hailed Channer's novella The Girl With the Golden Shoes as "a nearly perfect moral fable."
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8502 (Building 8, 5th Floor)
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