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Jamaica, USA: The US and the post-national writer

Categories: Caribbean, North America, Jamaica, U.S.A., Arts & Culture, Ethnicity & Race, Literature

As he works on his second novel, Jamaican writer Marlon James ponders the obstacles the US publishing establishment puts in the way of writers like himself, but concludes that “I have to hold to the belief that book and reader have an almost cosmic destiny to meet. And when they do, no barrier whether it be language, race, culture or nationality will stand in the way.” [1]