Description
Influenced by the principles of writing across the curriculum, Blooming with the Pouis provides students with a range of readings selected to enhance the development of writing skills in all academic disciplines. Multidisciplinary in approach, the Reader presents selections from Caribbean literature, culture, geography, history, education, religion, economics, and the pure and applied sciences, which help students expand their vocabulary and improve their critical thinking skills.
Concise, yet comprehensive, Blooming with the Pouis enforces the perception of reading as both an academic pursuit and means of engaging society. Using both classic and contemporary Caribbean writings, students are exposed to a full volume of expository and argumentative material.
The Reader is divided into four sections: exposition, argument, mixed modes and additional readings. It contains excellent examples of discourse types as well as several exercises to improve students’ analytical skills.
About the Authors
Dr Paulette A. Ramsay is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Her main research has focused on Afro-Hispanic literature and culture and she is the author of many scholarly articles in this area. An established writer, Dr Ramsay has authored several materials being used at the secondary and tertiary levels in the Caribbean, North America and Europe.
Vivienne A. Harding is a Lecturer in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
Janice A. Cools is a former Instructor in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies, Mona. She is presently pursuing a Master’s degree in Technical Writing.
Ingrid A. McLaren is a Lecturer in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
Contents
SECTION 1: EXPOSITION
EDUCATION
- Early West Indian Society and Education – M.K. Bacchus
- A Brief Historical Sketch of Tertiary Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean – Errol Miller
- Geography in the Caribbean Classroom – David Barker
GENDER & FAMILY LIFE
- The Impact of Family Structure on Children – Maureen Samms-Vaughan
- Children Caught in the Crossfire – Maureen Samms-Vaughan
- Gender Division – The Sowing – Barry Chevannes
- Red Thread’s Feminism – Linda Peake and D. Alissa Trotz
MUSIC & CULTURE
- All Hail, Nutmeg – Wendy-Ann Brissett
- In Celebration of the Patty – Barbara Gloudon
- In Search of the Perfect Patty – Alex D. Hawkes
- African Feasts in Trinidad – Maureen Warner Lewis
- The Spirit of Garvey — Lessons of the Legacy – Rex Nettleford
- How the Captaincy Evolved – Trevor McDonald
- Introducing Bredda Anancy – Louise Bennett
- Honduras – Rachel Sieder
RELIGION, HISTORY & POLITICS
- Atlas: Excerpted from A History of West Indian Cricket – Michael Manley
- Oil and the Twentieth Century Economy 1900–62 – Bridget Brereton
- Small Islands, Big Media: Challenges of Foreign Media in Covering the Caribbean – Matthew Roberts
- Costa Rica – Kathleen Royal and Franklin Perry
SCIENCE & THE ENVIRONMENT
- What to look for Under the Sea – Ralph Robinson
- Flowers, not Flirting, Make Sexes Differ – Caribbean Hummingbirds – Susan Milius
- Coral Killing Dust – Sarah Simpson
- Major Caribbean Earthquakes and Tsunamis: A Real Risk – Woods Hole
- Environmental Guidelines for Housing in St Lucia – Fillian N. Dujon
- What You Should Talk to Patients with Hypertension About: A Special Focus on Nutrition- Emily Rose
- Parasitology – J.F. Lindo and T.S. Ferguson
SECTION 2: ARGUMENT
Introduction To Argument
EDUCATION & SCIENCE
- Computers in the Mathematics Classroom – John Hayter and Mike Egan
- Biotechnology – Relevance for Caribbean Agriculture – P.U. Umaharan
- Inefficiency of the Educational System – Elsa Leo-Rhynie
- The Right to Write – Paulette A. Ramsay
FAMILY LIFE
- Womb Rights – Clinton Chisholm
- Outlook for the Future – Elsa Leo-Rhynie
- Are Caribbean Youth in Crisis? – Oliver Mills
HISTORY & POLITICS
- Women in Caribbean Literature: The African Presence – Leota Lawrence
- The Arawaks Arrived Before Columbus – Phillip Sherlock
- White Women and Slavery in the Caribbean – Hilary McD. Beckles
- Livestock Farmers and Marginality in Jamaica’s Sugar-Plantation Society: A Tentative Analysis – Verene Shepherd
- A Small Place – Jamaica Kincaid
- The Plight of the Guyanese Migrant Worker – Mark Brantley
- Putting on the Dog – Morris Cargill
- Shackled to the Past, Trapped in the Present – Wendell Abel
MUSIC & CULTURE
- Caribbean Music and the Discourses on AIDS – Curwen Best
- A Review of Paulette Ramsay’s Aunt Jen – Curdella Forbes
- On Reggae and Rastafariansim – And a Garvey Prophecy – Pamela O’Gorman
- Dutty Wine – Stephen Vasciannie
- Vile Vocals – Carolyn Cooper
- Migration and Remittances: A Case Study of the Caribbean – Wendell Samuel
SECTION 3: MIXED MODES
- The Manifestation of Tawhid: the Muslim Heritage of the Maroons in Jamaica – Sultana Afroz
- Jamaica’s Muslim Past: Disconcerting Theories – Maureen Warner-Lewis
- The Meal is the Message — The Language of Brazilian Cuisine – Roberto DaMatta
- Trophy and Catastrophe – Gordon Rohlehr
- U-Roy the Originator – Kevin O’Brien Chang and Wayne Chen
- Emancipate Yourself from Mental Slavery – Rupert Lewis
- The Sovereignty of the Imagination – George Lamming
- The Legacy of Our Past – Pauline Christie
- Gender and Attitude to English – Beverley Bryan and Gwendolyn Shaw
SECTION 4: PASSAGES FOR ADDITIONAL READING & ANALYSIS
- Hens Can Crow Too: The Female Voice of Authority on Air in Jamaica – Kathryn Shields-Brodber
- ‘Soy una Feminista Negra’ – Shirley Campbell’s Feminist/Womanist Agenda – Paulette A. Ramsay
- The Early Use of Steam Power in the Jamaican Sugar Industry, 1768-1810 – Veront Satchell
- Trinidad’s Free Coloureds in Comparative Caribbean Perspectives – Carl Campbell
- Laryngeal Tuberculosis: Diagnosis and Prevention of Dissemination – F.E. Ologe and S. Segun-Busari
- Chronic Heart Failure – Dharam Sawh
- Jamaican Reggae and the Articulation of Social and Historical Consciousness in Musical Discourse – Jorge L. Giovannetti
Writing in the Digital Age — The Internet and Research
