I live in Jamaica/JAMAICA AUTHORS

[Anonymous No.16247274]

I live in Jamaica. Are there any good authors from here? I need something to do to take my mind off of living in Jamaica. I hate it here and I want to die

[Anonymous No.16247279]

>>16247274
Jamaica Kincaid

[Anonymous No.16247290]

>>16247279
>Jamaica Kincaid
>She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont (in the United States)
Thanks asshole

[Anonymous No.16247293]

i was in love with a jamaican girl and would have married her but i'm a slacker deadbeat and her family had bourgeois values, so i drifted away, i'm at peace with it for now, but i wonder how i'll think about it on my deathbed

[Anonymous No.16247299]

>>16247274
just go back home bro what's keeping you there?

[Anonymous No.16247303]

>>16247290
>he fell for it

[Anonymous No.16247314]

Marlon James? I haven't read him

[Are there no good authors? Fro(...) No.16247337]

>>16247293
Yeah I’m looking for something kind of like this. Something rooted in basic human experiences that tugs at the heartstrings but is set against the most godforsaken country on the face of the planet. When they put one last joint in the main character’s mouth as he lays on his deathbed they’ll shower him with tacky Chinese made dude weed dude I’m Rastafarian touristy bullshit as his eyes roll into the back of his head and foam escapes from his mouth
>>16247299
My parents are going to die soon and they refuse to die anywhere else. It has to be Stinkisland no where else is good enouggh for my parenrs

[Anonymous No.16247343]

>>16247274
Based. Jamaica rules

[Anonymous No.16247352]

Just read Bob Marley lyrics and raastafarian texts, yah man. Eerie vibrations.

[Anonymous No.16247372]

>>16247337
that girl had the most patrician taste of anyone of ever met

[Anonymous No.16247380]

so annoying being so lazy i'd rather shit post my days away with you assholes than actually do something worthwhile in life, but i don't think people can change

[Anonymous No.16247418]

Marlon James is the most famous one

[Anonymous No.16247540]

>>16247274
You should write some shit brah. Take your inspo from western canon and be a great author of your country.

[Anonymous No.16247546]

>>16247540
just don't make it boring like british novels

[Anonymous No.16247828]

>>16247274
Marlon James

[Anonymous No.16247933]

>>16247274
here ya go anon, collection of short stories by jamaican writers
also try wide sargasso sea by jean rhys
ian fleming wrote all the james bond novels while living in jamaica

[Anonymous No.16248130]

you might be interested in Wild Life by Robert Trivers, the memoirs of an evolutionary biologist and former member of the Black Panthers who lives in Jamaica and is married to a local

two excerpts:
Wild Life: Surviving an Armed Home Invasion Robbery
>https://www.unz.com/article/surviving-an-armed-home-invasion-robbery/
Wild Life: Jamaican Murders Most Frequent and Foul
>https://www.unz.com/article/jamaican-murders-most-frequent-and-foul/

[Anonymous No.16248190]

You’re just a couple stops on the E train from me.

[Anonymous No.16248452]

Stuart Hall

[Anonymous No.16249464]

Stuart Hall
Andrew Salkey
George Lamming
Etc.

Really look for any of the west indian writers that escaped to bongstan ala windrush

t. jamaican that escaped muttworld and living in bongstan

[Anonymous No.16249488]

>>16249464
But really the jamaican creative is fully in music now. It's certainly not reggae-centric but draws from dancehall and uk garage and bass scenes to create something new and forward thinking.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/21759

[Anonymous No.16249619]

You can be a genius there with 110IQ