... between scholarship and autobiography, between Patwa (Jamaican/ Jumiekan ) and English. Cooper’s legacy in championing the native tongue of Jamaica—not as bad English or noise but as a capacious language for both academic discourse and creative work—is to offer multiple ways to sound authentically...

...-consciously invested in disturbing and disrupting cultural and linguistic shibboleths that accord epistemological nullity and ontological invalidity to Jamaican vernacular discourses such as Jamaican Creole/Patwa and the musical genres of reggae and dancehall. [email protected] © 2024 by Small...

... , created through the Groundwork Theater Company at the Jamaica School of Drama by Patricia Cumper, Honor Ford-Smith, Carol Lawes, Hertencer Lindsay, and Eugene Williams, and first performed in 1987. This work emphasizes English and patwa as linguistic resources that can be employed for a range of strategic...

... life of Jamaicans is conducted in the dominant language of the majority of citizens. This language is popularly known as Patwa/patois. Linguists traditionally conceive it as “Jamaican Creole.” More recently, the language is simply called “Jamaican.” This “unofficial” language, though virtually silenced...

... and conception into creation. As a consequence, I have been publicly branded with trademarks that signify the interwoven strands of the supposedly “controversial” ideas I elaborate in my academic work and my interventions in the media, both local and international. First among these trademarks is “Patwa Doctor...

... instance of Jamaican patwa’s appearance in the book. 7 Through a fairly typical storyline of locating witnesses, debunking falsehoods, and surviving attacks, Blaine uncovers the truth and reveals it to two allies within Jamaican law enforcement. One or both of these people is/are responsible...

... art scene, with its formal English affect, will have to learn to communicate in Patwa, the vernacular language of the Jamaican street, if it wants to reach a wider public. It will have to become at least bilingual.16 These communicative failures are more easily pointed...

... she took house colour. Till she learned she was diff erent from them. She was not to speak patwa like them. Not to bathe in the river like them” (Last Dance, p. 40). One is taught to be ashamed both of one’s partial whiteness (due to miscegenation) and of one’s blackness: “STOP RUBBING UP...

... that apprehends beauty, from the text to the gut to the eye. The aim was for a coherent system of intellectual and political project, as she produced, for instance, the tough work of Patwa criticism—her sometimes startling orthography a deliberate choice to use a more consistent and orally attuned...

... the circulation of dancehall culture in the Carib- bean diaspora in North America” (67). In Apache Indian’s case, “dancehall culture” explicitly signifies “bhangra” hybridity, as I make clear in the chapter “ ‘Mix Up the Indian with All the Patwa’: Rajamuffin Sounds in ‘Cool’ Britannia...

... politicized and sexualized society and the culture’s transnational significance, is only partially achieved. The chapter “Mix up the Indian with all the Patwa: Rajamuffin Sounds in ‘Cool’ Britannia,” which locates dancehall as a transnational sound and style in the work of the Punjabi and British DJ...

... the self-denigration of Jamaica’s “patois” as degenerate, corrupt, and part of the “vulgar body,” she levered her professional status to reclaim the language with love and care as Patwa, and as Jamaican. As she points out with pride in a Facebook post of October 2020, the Department of English at UWI, Mona...

... For the influence of the Jamaican 1970s on black Britain, we need to also look at the fascinating manifestation of language in the cultural evolution of black Britain. Mid-1970s Britain and Jamaica saw the emergence of a new group of poets who unashamedly embraced patwa as a foundational aspect of their poetry...

...: ‘A bigfoot dem gi’ mi Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 6, no.1 (1996): 1–38. The article gives a close analysis of Coppa’s use of Rasta discourse. For the same purpose see also Peter Patrick, “Style and Register in Jamaican Patwa,” in Englishes Around the World: Studies in Honour of Manfred...

... who we are today will require greater attention to the Caribbean's blended frontiers and the work that went on within them. These include spaces of encounter between patwa-, patois-, and Spanish-speaking Caribbeans in eastern Venezuela, eastern Panama, and East Harlem alike. A final element I hope...