Pamela Mordecai
Biographic Data
| ID | 323151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Mordecai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Mordecai |
| SIGNATURE | MORDECAI P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Negotiating Real Space and Real Time in Red Jacket: A Novel
Analysis of her 2015 novel, “Red Jacket” by author Pamela Mordecai showing how the tools of space and time were used to provide realism to the story. This was done by describing real events that happened over the space of the story including weather events, political events as well as geographical descriptions to give an idea of fictional locations. Red Jacket is neither fabulist tale nor historical fiction. It is a made-up story, set at a time m…
Reading at 4: 00 A.m
Reading at 4:00 A.M. Pamela Mordecai I. The Poets (a) I read Walcott’s Omeros, chapter six. Helen chats with her friends down near to the sea wall. She don’t like when the tourist foreigners put their hands on her ass and so she tell the cashier he could keep the fucking job. Is just a stupid waitress work, is all! Only she now must find something to do like how she pregnant and don’t know for who. For me her tale is poetry more than “love songs …
Three Poems
Culture and Customs of Jamaica
Jamaica is known widely for its beautiful beaches and the reggae music scene, but there is much more to this Caribbean country. Culture and Customs of Jamaica richly surveys the fuller wealth of the Caribbean nation, focusing on its people, history, religion, education, language, social customs, media and cinema, literature, music, and performing and visual arts. Jamaican Creole and the education system, which are not often discussed in volumes a…
Music, Music, Music
Catch the Wind
Naming Caribbean Women Writers
The House of Cards
ii In the morning I sweep dust build a house of cards carefully deck on deck at three the children will come brightly through the door and blow it down behind their father careful chauffeur polished shiner of their dreams would not have noticed I will collect the cards count carefully -each pack makes fifty-threeand put them in their box. (I count the joker in.) It is a curse it is a curse but I swear it will not catch me
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A Retrospective Comment on The Pond and A Review of Mervyn Morris's Shadowboxing
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A Retrospective Comment on The Pond and A Review of Mervyn Morris's Shadowboxing
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The House of Cards
ii In the morning I sweep dust build a house of cards carefully deck on deck at three the children will come brightly through the door and blow it down behind their father careful chauffeur polished shiner of their dreams would not have noticed I will collect the cards count carefully -each pack makes fifty-threeand put them in their box. (I count the joker in.) It is a curse it is a curse but I swear it will not catch me
Naming Caribbean Women Writers
Music, Music, Music
Catch the Wind
Culture and Customs of Jamaica
Jamaica is known widely for its beautiful beaches and the reggae music scene, but there is much more to this Caribbean country. Culture and Customs of Jamaica richly surveys the fuller wealth of the Caribbean nation, focusing on its people, history, religion, education, language, social customs, media and cinema, literature, music, and performing and visual arts. Jamaican Creole and the education system, which are not often discussed in volumes a…
Three Poems
Reading at 4: 00 A.m
Reading at 4:00 A.M. Pamela Mordecai I. The Poets (a) I read Walcott’s Omeros, chapter six. Helen chats with her friends down near to the sea wall. She don’t like when the tourist foreigners put their hands on her ass and so she tell the cashier he could keep the fucking job. Is just a stupid waitress work, is all! Only she now must find something to do like how she pregnant and don’t know for who. For me her tale is poetry more than “love songs …
Negotiating Real Space and Real Time in Red Jacket: A Novel
Analysis of her 2015 novel, “Red Jacket” by author Pamela Mordecai showing how the tools of space and time were used to provide realism to the story. This was done by describing real events that happened over the space of the story including weather events, political events as well as geographical descriptions to give an idea of fictional locations. Red Jacket is neither fabulist tale nor historical fiction. It is a made-up story, set at a time m…
History (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · African studies (1 works)