..., folklorist, actor, and educator Louise Bennett Coverley, popularly known by her stage name, “Miss Lou,” conceived the Jamaican language as fundamentally subversive. In her dramatic monologue “Jamaica Language” she posits that the new language is a cunning, revolutionary assertion of African verbal creativity...

... • Annie Paul | 149 funeral service of Louise Bennett Coverley, Jamaica’s beloved folk poet and dramatist, who died in 2006 in Toronto, Canada. Fervently embraced by the country as a national heroine, “Miss Lou,” as she was universally known, remained a symbol emitting conflicting...

.... And though I cut my teeth on Louise “Miss Lou” Bennett-Coverley’s vernacular poems at speech festivals as a young girl, Patwa is to me the language of intimacy, of interiority. I come home from work, or from Foreign (overseas), take off my American overcoat, shed my Proper English, and strip down to my Patwa...

...” by Louise Bennett (poem), 9 “Father Neville” [no attribution] (poem), 9 “Crime Does Not Pay” by M. G. Smith (story), 12 “Quest” by Roger Mais (poem), 14 Dec...