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Jean Goulbourne
It's 1959 in Cross Keys, Jamaica, and Janelle is excited to go to Portsea and spend time with her cousins, Selena and Diana. But things are not all going well…
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Love Trials is a riveting drama set in rural Jamaica. Maggie always thought she would marry Long Dan. When he marries someone else instead, it sets in motion a series…
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Janice, a teenager, shares a room with her mother in a tenement yard. Her mother, a caregiver with dream of becoming a nurse, goes to work in an upper St…
A Butter becomes a good example for the youth of Baker Street, showing them that with hard work and ambition, they can make it in life no matter the circumstances.
Excavation is a dramatic and poetically written exploration of the interpenetration of past and present, and the issues of age, race and gender which the excavation provokes.
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Writing with the directness of the reggae lyric, Goulbourne articulates the griefs, hopes and unquenchable spirit of black women. Womansong reveals a constant faith in woman’‘s creativity, both in their…
Jamaican poet, Jean Goulbourne brings us poems of sorrow and gladness, day and night, valleys and mountains, birth and death, starvation and fullness. In spite of cultural differences, races and…
Jean L Goulbourne
The 12 stories represent a number of people who have been imprisoned in various situations over many years. They seek to illustrate problems that people face: slavery -old and new…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Part reminiscence, part meditation, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau’s last great work, the enduring testimony of an alienated person seeking self-knowledge. As he records his walks round Paris…
-Bringing together leading scholars from the USA, UK and Europe, this is the first substantial study of the seminal influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on British Romanticism. Reconsidering Rousseau’s connection to…
Bringing together leading scholars from the USA, UK and Europe, this is the first substantial study of the seminal influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on British Romanticism. Reconsidering Rousseau’s connection to…
