The Caribbean: Through a lens brightly
JELLY-SCHAPIRO’S LABORS RAISE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF CARIBBEAN TRAVEL WRITING.
- To wit, Kingston’s airport is named Norman Manley International, not Kingston International Airport; Garvey’s UNIA was founded in 1914 in Jamaica, not in 1917 in New York; “Jah No Dead” is a well-known Burning Spear song and isn’t by Bob Marley; the Coral Gardens Incident in St. James Parish in Jamaica was in 1963, not 1962; Christopher “Dudus” Coke did not die in the Western Kingston Incursion of 2010; the Haitian term for the 2010 earthquake isgoudougoudou, not garou garou, and so on. ↩
Published November 28, 2017
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