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Velma Pollard is a retired Senior Lecturer who
taught in Language Education in the Department of Educational Studies
in the Faculty of Arts and Education, UWI, Mona. 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 are to be found in local and international
journals. She has published a handbook: From Jamaican Creole to
Standard English: A Handbook for Teachers (1994) and a monograph,
Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari (1994, 2000). Dr. 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 other creative publications include The Best Philosophers
I Know Cant Read and Write(2001), Homestretch (1994), Considering
Woman (1989) and Crown Point and Other Poems (1988)
Abstract:
Female Emancipation and the Sewing Machine
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