Sylvia Wynter's Dream

ABOUT

Welcome. won’t you listen?

This is Jamaican Voices: Real and/or Imagined. We are explorers and this is our landing page. Check out who we are and learn about what we are working on for this project.

I’m Dr. Isis Semaj-Hall (aka the Riddim Writer), a lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English at UWI, Mona. My research interest wobbles at the intersection of the Caribbean’s literature, music, and digital possibilities. This semester we have created an archive of perspectives and materials that examine how we want our Jamaican voices to be heard in 2022 and beyond. By identifying what mattered to them, these bold student-contributors spotlighted Jamaican society’s unspoken pain-points and produced multimodal content (text combined with sound, still and moving images, mapping software, gaming software, and even AI image modeling). What you will find here is digitally-enhanced creative non-fiction work.

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*All content below and beyond was drafted/ created/ edited by the students.

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Click on a contributor’s image to learn about their Jamaican voice.

Hi! My name is Sarahlee Francis. I am a third-year Writing, Literature, and Publishing major student…

Greetings everyone! My name is Radika Myers and I am a final year Cultural and Creative Industries student with a concentration in writing for media and a discipline in International Relations…

My name is Beyonce Thomas, and I am a journalism major with a minor in creative writing and literature.

Hola! yo soy Camesha Peterkin, a finalizing student of the facility of thee Humanities & Education, specializing in the Cultural & Creative Industries!