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A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice

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Writer of prose and poetry in Jamaican Dialect, for Sunday Gleaner and other local newspapers and magazines.

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In Jamaica, Miss Lou taught speech and drama at Excelsior High School. She also found time to write her poems, folk songs, short stories and perform in plays and pantomimes.Laugh with Louise: A pot-pourri of Jamaican folklore. Kingston: City Printery. 1961. OCLC 76815511. In 1958, the West Indies Federation was founded and the infantry regiments of the various Caribbean islands were disbanded and reorganized into the West India Regiment. Newcastle became a training depot, training recruits from all over the West Indies as part of the You ask for a report on Louise Bennett, who spent one year as a student at the R.A.D.A. as a Jamaican British Council Scholar: We found Louise Bennett a highly intelligent person, keen to acquire all possible information and knowledge about the English Theatre, and English culture generally. She carried through her work here with enthusiasm, as what she felt was part of her general effort to see as much as possible of the English Theatre, its working, and its productions. Her social manner as admirable, and she found a friendly reception from our staff and students. I think she is capable of producing and acting in English plays, and her experience here should be of value to her on her return to Jamaica.

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From 1966 until 1982, often three times a week, she composed and delivered Miss Lou's Views, topical four-minute radio monologues. From 1970 until 1982 she hosted Ring Ding, a weekly television show for children, in which they performed and were reminded of various elements of Jamaican folk culture. The longest of these (the fourth) has as its centre a story the narrator first started many years previously – which starts life as a rather eccentric character study of an flamboyant Venice-based flaneur before evolving into more of a Borgesian fable about the power of literature – the evolution reflecting the narrator’s own evolving and expanding experience as a reader (the phrase “I hadn’t yet read ….” acting as a recurring motif). But even this centre is at best the starting point for various digression – digressions which seem often more at the non-sequitur than chain-of-association end of the spectrum. Bennett lived in Scarborough, Ontario. She died on 27 July 2006 at the Scarborough Grace Hospital after collapsing at her home. A memorial service was held in Toronto on 3 August 2006, after which her body was flown to Jamaica to lie in state at the National Arena on 7 and 8 August. A funeral was held in Kingston at the Coke Methodist Church at East Parade on 9 August 2006 followed by her interment in the cultural icons section of the country's National Heroes Park. Bennett's husband preceded her in death. [18] [3] Cultural significance and legacy [ edit ] A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, but make it a feminist rendition with a female protagonist: In this Künstler- and Bildungsroman, an unnamed narrator ponders her development as a reader and a writer in an experimental style. She grows up in a working-class family in South West England, then moves to Ireland (like the author), always accompanied by the stories she constantly ingests. Yes, this is a book about the love of storytelling, but not in a moralistic, reading-is-good-for-you kind of way: Here, literature is an obsession, both a force of connection and separation.Morris, Mervyn (1 August 2006). "Louise Bennett-Coverley". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 November 2015. A Phenomenal Woman – the Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley." The Weekly Gleaner, North American ed.: 21 August 2006. ProQuest. Web. 4 March 2016.

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