.... “The Yoruba Language in Trinidad” was the title of her PhD dissertation at UWI Mona. 1 The body of work to which I pay tribute here has gone into other language groups in Nigeria, notably the Igbo, and into other culture areas of Africa and now constitutes an unparalleled exploration into African...

.... Photograph by Oswald Jones. Used with permission In 1971, after meeting at a conference at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), the Jamaican cultural theorist, playwright, and novelist Sylvia Wynter wrote African American historian Vincent Harding of her intention to write...

... of the epistemological worth of reggae and dancehall as scholarly fields. A pathfinder and institution builder, she was instrumental in conceiving the Reggae Studies Unit at UWI, Mona, and facilitating public seminars, lectures, and reasonings that allowed artistes, practitioners, academics, and students to productively...

... the tongue, curtailing linguistic looseness” ( Noises , 40). This kind of claim holds its own ambivalence, given Carolyn’s own vibrant textuality on the page. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Carolyn Cooper pedagogy UWI Mona Caribbean feminisms It was something...

...Faith Smith Maureen Warner-Lewis’s extraordinary body of cultural criticism proposes a new temporal engagement with the place of the African continent in the Caribbean. Her work and career suggest some of the dispositions of the Mona Generation (UWI) of the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Read against...

... made to me by Professor Robert Le Page—who had headed the English department at UWI Mona several years previously—that I study instead the formation and structures of the Caribbean Creole languages. 2 This, he felt, would help in the teaching of English in West Indian schools. I suspect that Creary...

... and Sciences at UWI Mona at the time and the co-instructor of the African Literature course I took with Maureen Warner-Lewis in 1974; Drayton traveled to East Africa with Walter Rodney that summer. 10 Moreover, Brathwaite, then a lecturer in history at Mona, had in 1972 been the first scholar in residence...

... at UWI, Mona, in 1963 and returned to lecture at the university in early 1968. He went about teaching African history and discussing the social and political issues of development with working folks in Kingston and rural communities. The government feared that Rodney's Black Power message would harm...

... 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...

... Position” (paper, Department of Government, UWI, Mona, June 1971). Revised and published as “New World Philosophy and Marxist Ideology,” in his Jamaican Politics: A Marxist Perspective in Transition (Kingston: Heinemann, 1990). 110404 RL: My position . . . I am still searching, because...

...,” a paper presented at the Eighth Conference of English Departments, UWI, Mona, in May and June, 1988. 18 I wrote in my notebook: “Amen, Amen. For Doris: and for Eddie, hollowed out, utterly devastated still by her fading into these hills; by the sense of hurt he carries, the notion of being simply...

.... It was a titillating, pornographic scenario: the University of the West Indies (“UWI”), Mona, is an open coffin from which arises “Prof” Vybz Kartel, a grinning, bloodthirsty vampire, and the “patwah docta”—a caricature of me—seductively invites the kiss of death. The murderous message in this necrophiliac cartoon...

..., 64–65. See the magazine archives at www.jcobany.org/jc-yearbooks . 3 The New World Group, which formed in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1962, originated from the West Indian Society for the Study of Social Issues (WISSI) at UWI, Mona. The journal New World Quarterly was published 1963–72; see...

.... 12. Ibid. 13. Pauline Christie, “Trends in Jamaican English: Increasing Deviance or Emerging Standards?” (UWI Ling, Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 3, Dept. of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy, UWI, Mona,1998): 19–35. SX19...

...David Scott © 2020 Small Axe, Inc. 2020 Between October 1977 and June 1980, I was an undergraduate in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies, Mona. It was an extraordinary time to be at Mona, to me, then as now, not merely an academic institution...

... in the depart- ment of economics at UWI at the time, Beckford was then also the leader of the New World Group on the Mona, Jamaica, campus of UWI. In retrospect, the prohibition of Rodney’s re-entry into Jamaica by the Jamaican government, and the ensuing popular protest that it sparked, constituted...

..., “The Occasion for Speaking,” 41–42 (italics in original). 53 Baugh’s vision of the literary networks at UCWI is also echoed by Frank Birbalsingh, the Guyanese Canadian scholar who studied at Mona in the 1950s. In an interview, Birbalsingh recalls how students gathered to listen to the BBC’s Caribbean...

... As chairman of the NWG’s University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona chapter, Girvan viewed these rivalries in terms of the need for more self-reflexive methods. He feared that because NWG members presented their work in absolute opposition to mainstream economics, they prescribed to a “dialogue of the deaf...

... in 1996 for my ill-fated attempt to configure a relationship to the University of the West Indies, Mona, Charles must have been almost finished writing what would become The Racial Contract , his land-mark book published to great acclaim in 1997. I must admit that when I first read this book (almost...

... of the dissidents. They included the YSL Area Council, based at the University of the West Indies (UWI); the New World Group of political intellectuals, also at UWI; the Independent Trade Union Advisory Council (ITAC); the Jamaica Council on Human Rights (JCHR); the Abeng newspaper movement, with its emphasis...