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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:45:00 +0500


From: "Mary Keller" <kellerkeegan-AT-hotmail.com>
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Pocomania
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 14:56:00 -0600
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Una Marson's play "Pocomania" is a dandy but is not, as far as I 
know, in 
any collections. I got my copy from the Institute of Jamaica, West 
India 
Reference Library. I was looking at the role of spirit possession in 
theatre. Marson describes it as "A Three Act Play of Native Life in 
Jamaica". The play describes the collision between Christianity as 
adopted 
by Jamaicans and the indigenous tradition of Pocomania. The lead 
character 
is a woman who has Western medicine and Christianity describing her 
condition one way and the Pocomania people describing it as Pocomania.

It reminds me of the Irish play about the Catholic missionary who 
is sent 
back to Ireland after "Turning Native" and he slides toward Celtic 
pagan 
rituals as he seeks to come to terms with the power of drums, for 
instance, 
in his world. I've forgotten the name of this one.


Dr. Mary Keller, Ph. D.
Adjunct, University of Wyoming, Religious Studies Program
Independent Researcher
1025 Cody Ave.
Cody, WY 82414
ph/fax 307 587 5312





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>Greetings All:
>Can someone suggest any good anthologies of West Indian (or Caribbean)
>drama
>that goes beyond the usual suspects (Walcott etc...)?
>Joe C
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>Joseph N. Clarke
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