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Jamaica: Happy birthday, John Hearne

Categories: Caribbean, Jamaica, Ideas, Literature

Geoffrey Philp marks the birthday of Jamaican novelist John Hearne: “He had to tread carefully, I suspect, as a white Jamaican who did not sound Jamaican, in a society that was changing rapidly and in which the privileges, which a generation before a person in his situation would have taken for granted, were disappearing. [1]