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- NarrativeBecka's Buckra BabyTom Redcam · 1903A doll given to a Black little girl, in the colonial Kingston of the beginning of the century.Literature
- PoetrySongs of JamaicaClaude McKay · 1912The Creole verse of a young Kingston policeman, written before his departure for Harlem.LiteraturePublic domain
- TaleJamaica Anansi StoriesMartha Warren Beckwith · 1924The Anansi tales collected in the early twenties from the island's storytellers.Literature
- PoetryTropic ReveriesUna Marson · 1930The first collection of a pioneer of Jamaican poetry, between love lyricism and feminism.Literature
- NovelThe Hills Were Joyful TogetherRoger Mais · 1953The life of a wretched Kingston yard, written by a journalist whom the colonial authorities had imprisoned.Literature
- NovelVoices Under the WindowJohn Hearne · 1955John Hearne's first novel: a lawyer wounded in a riot relives his life and his commitments.Literature
- NovelA Quality of ViolenceAndrew Salkey · 1959A drought, Afro-Christian cults and the violence of a Jamaican village, seen from London by an exile.Literature
- NovelThe Hills of HebronSylvia Wynter · 1962An Afro-Christian peasant utopia in the island's hills, undermined by a succession quarrel.Literature
- NovelThe Children of SisyphusOrlando Patterson · 1964Orlando Patterson's first novel, about the poorest people of Kingston and the Rastafarians of the Dungle.Literature
- PoetryJamaica LabrishLouise Bennett · 1966Monologue poems in Creole, written for the stage and radio by a storyteller from Kingston.Literature
- NovelSong for MumuLindsay Barrett · 1967An allegory of desire, love and loss, written in exile by a Jamaican who left for Africa.Literature
- CinemaThe Harder They ComePerry Henzell · 1972A singer from the countryside who becomes an outlaw, in the Kingston of early reggae.Cinema
- CinemaSmile OrangeTrevor D. Rhone · 1974A crafty waiter and the tourists of a coastal hotel, in a satire based on a Jamaican play.Cinema
- PoetryDread Beat an' BloodLinton Kwesi Johnson · 1975Poems of anger in Creole, spoken over reggae by a young Jamaican in London.Literature
- CinemaRockersTed Bafaloukos · 1978A Kingston drummer looking for his stolen motorbike, played by the reggae musicians themselves.Cinema
- CinemaChildren of BabylonLennie Little-White · 1980Five lives that cross on an estate on the island, between desire, class and colour.Cinema
- CinemaCountrymanDickie Jobson · 1982A Rastafarian fisherman comes to the aid of two hunted Americans, in a Jamaica caught up in an election campaign.Cinema
- NovelAbengMichelle Cliff · 1984Michelle Cliff's first novel: a Jamaican childhood in the fifties, between colour, class and memory.Literature
- PoetryI Am Becoming My MotherLorna Goodison · 1986Poems about mothers and daughters, written by a Kingston painter who became a poet.Literature
- Short storiesSummer Lightning and Other StoriesOlive Senior · 1986Rural childhoods on the island, where colour and class are read in the eyes of adults.Literature
- NovelThe LunaticAnthony Winkler · 1987A village madman, a German tourist and a butcher, in a bawdy comedy of the Jamaican countryside.Literature
- NovelMyalErna Brodber · 1988A young woman dispossessed of her history, and the village that sets out to heal her.Literature
- CinemaThe LunaticLol Creme · 1991The farce of the madman who talks to trees, brought to the screen by an English music-video director.Cinema
- CinemaDancehall QueenRick Elgood and Don Letts · 1997A street vendor who becomes the masked queen of dance contests, in the Kingston of the sound systems.Cinema
- CinemaThird World CopChris Browne · 1999A police action film shot in Kingston, which became the greatest success of Jamaican cinema.Cinema
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