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The All Jamaican Library was a publishing house created with the intention of providing indigenous Jamaicans the space to write about Jamaica. Comprising two novellas, a collection of short stories, and one full novel, the short lived imprint laid the foundation of modern Caribbean writing as it is known today.

Produktbeschreibung
The All Jamaican Library was a publishing house created with the intention of providing indigenous Jamaicans the space to write about Jamaica. Comprising two novellas, a collection of short stories, and one full novel, the short lived imprint laid the foundation of modern Caribbean writing as it is known today.
Autorenporträt
Started by Thomas MacDermot in 1903, the All Jamaican Library was Jamaica's first indigenous publishing house consisting of a series of short stories and novellas written by Jamaicans about Jamaica and reasonably priced in order to remain accessible. Ultimately he was only able to publish four works with two authored by himself-Becka's Buckra Baby(1904) and One Brown Girl and ¿ (1909)-comprising "The Story of Noel"; E.A. Dodds' Maroon Medicine (1905) and W.A. Campbell's Marguarite: A Story of the Earthquake (1907). While short lived, the All Jamaican Library features the first collection of short stories by a Caribbean writer and marked the beginning of modern Caribbean writing as it is known today.