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Profiles of Speakers on August 30th 2003
Profiles of Speakers on August 31st 2003

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Dr. Velma Pollard
 

Velma Pollard is a retired Senior Lecturer in Language Education in the Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Arts and Education of the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Her major research interests have been Creole Languages of the Anglophone Caribbean, The Language of Caribbean Literature and Caribbean Women’s Writing. Articles in these areas appear in local and international journals. She has published a handbook: From Jamacan Creole to Standard English-a handbook for teachers (1994) and a monograph: Dread Talk-the language of Rastafari (1994, 2000).
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Pollard is involved in Creative writing and has published poems and stories in regional and international journals and anthologies. She has a novel, two collections of short fiction and three books of poetry on the market. Her novella Karl won the Casa de las Americas prize in 1992. Her creative publications are listed below:

  • 1988 Crown Point and Other Poems
    Peepal Tree Press, Leeds
  • 1989 Considering Woman
    The Women’s Press, London
  • 1992 Shame Trees Dont Grow Here
    Peepal Tree Press, Leeds
  • 1992 Karl (bilingual edition)
    Casa de las Americas, Havana
  • 1994 Homestretch
    Longman House, Harlow
  • 1994 Karl and Other Stories
    Longman House, Harlow
  • 2001 The best philosophers I know cant read and write
    Mango Publishing, UK

Abstract:   Female Emancipation and the Sewing Machine



 
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