The dead yard :

Thomson, Ian, 1961-

The dead yard : tales of modern Jamaica / Ian Thomson. - London : Faber and Faber, 2009. - xiii, 370 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-356) and index.

(Black man) in Hammersmith Palais -- Trench town mix up -- Strictly come dancehall -- Slaving -- Massa day done? -- I've got to go back home -- Forward unto Zion -- Maximum black -- Stranded on death row -- The Negotiator -- Blood and fire -- Revival time -- Don't call us immigrants -- English upbringing, background Caribbean -- Everything crash -- Nanny knew best -- The Killing of a Chinese shopkeeper -- 007 (Shanty Town) -- Sitting in limbo -- Police and thieves -- Night nurse -- Scotland Yard -- Herbsman hustle -- Investors in people ('Cargo') -- Lord creator -- Life of contradiction.

"Jamaica used to the source of much of Britain's wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed out in vast quantities. It was a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. Since independence in 1962, it has gradually become associated with a new kind of hell, a society where extreme violence has become ordinary and gangs control the areas where most Jamaicans live. Ian Thomson's brave new book explores a country of lost promise, a country that most older Jamaicans in Britain cannot recognise as their own. Once a beacon of optimistic third world politics, the island is now sunk in corruption, hopelessness and drug wars. Jamaica's music was once the lilting anthem of idealists everywhere; now it is a repetitive glorification of homophobia and violence"--Global Books in Print.

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Since 1962


Moral conditions.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Travel.


Jamaica--Description and travel.
Jamaica--Social conditions--21st century.
Jamaica--Moral conditions.
Jamaica--History--1962-
Jamaica--Politics and government--1962-
Jamaica.

Jamaica Description and travel


History.

F1887 / .T46 2009

972.9206

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