Until Judgement Comes: Stories About Jamaican Men by Opal Palmer Adisa

Until Judgement Comes: Stories About Jamaican Men by Opal Palmer Adisa

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Presenting explorations of the male psyche, this is a collection of stories within stories, the reworkings of Jamaican folktales, tall tales, and myths. The seven stories are structured around the wise sayings, concerning the nature of judgment, divine, but mostly human, that the narrator remembers as her grandfather's principle legacy to her.

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Until Judgement Comes: Stories About Jamaican Men by Opal Palmer Adisa

The stories in this collection are told by an old Jamaican woman about the community that has grown up around her, the village's first inhabitant. They concern the mystery that is men, men of beauty, men who are afraid of and despise women, brutal men, men searching for their feminine side, men trapped in guilt, and more.
Adisa, Opal Palmer: - Opal Palmer Adisa, Ph. D, is nurtured on cane-sap and the oceanic breeze of the Caribbean. Writer of both poetry and prose, Adisa is an educator and cultural activist, as well as a playwright and theatre director. Adisa has lectured and read her work throughout the Caribbean, United States, South Africa, East and West Africa as well as throughout Europe. An award-winning poet and prose writer, Adisa has more than twenty titles to her credit, including Look! A Moko Jumbie, CaribbeanReads, 2016; 4-Headed Woman, Tia Chucha Press, 2013; and Painting Away Regrets, novel, Peepal Tree Press, 2011. She has been a resident artist in internationally acclaimed residencies such as Arte Studio Ginestrelle (Assis, Italy), El Gouna (Egypt), Sacatar Institute (Brazil) and McColl Center, (North Carolina) and Headlines Center for the Arts (California, USA). Opal Palmer Adisa's work has been reviewed by Ishmael Reed, Al Young, and Alice Walker (Color Purple), who described her work as solid, visceral, important stories written with integrity and love. A Distinguished professor of creative writing and literature in the MFA program at California College of the Arts, where she teaches in the Fall. She has been a visiting professor at several universities including, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and University of the Virgin Islands. Her poetry, stories, essays and articles on a wide range of subjects have been collected in over 400 journals, anthologies and other publications, including Essence Magazine. Adisa is the founder and editor of Interviewing the Caribbean, an annual journal of poetry, prose art and interviews.
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ISBN 13 9781845230425
ISBN 10 1845230426
Title Until Judgement Comes: Stories About Jamaican Men
Author Opal Palmer Adisa
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Year published 2007-02-05
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.