From: "Elizabeth DeLoughrey" <emd23-AT-cornell.edu>
Subject: "At Home the Green Remains" John Figueroa
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:31:33 -0800


Hi everyone,

I just picked up this collection over the summer--highly recommended:


NEW PUBLICATION MAY 2003
"At Home the Green Remains â^À^Ó Caribbean Writing in Honor of John Figueroa" 
Esther Figueroa, Editor
Special Edition of Caribbean Quarterly
Available for purchase through UWI Press Website: www.uwipress.com


At Home the Green Remains features poetry by

John Agard, Dorothy Alexander Figueroa,  Nara  Anderson Figueroa , Edward 
Baugh,  Louise Bennett, James Berry, Gloria  Escoffery, Esther Figueroa , John 
Figueroa,  Honor  Ford-Smith, Cecil Gray, Jane King Hipppolyte, E.A. Markham, 
Ian McDonald, Pamela Mordecai, Mervyn Morris,  Philip Nanton, Grace Nichols , 
Velma Pollard,  Ralph Thompson, and Derek Walcott 

Short Fiction by
Mavis Burke, Christine Craig, Alexei Figueroa, Olive Senior, and Vanessa 
Spence

Interviews with John Figueroa  by
Philip Nanton and Erika Waters

Remembrances of John Figueroa  by
Mavis Burke, Joseph Cunneen, J. Peter Figueroa,  D. Anna Figueroa Jarvis, 
Frank Getlein, Marshall Morris, Dominic  Newbould, Alastair Niven, and 
Christopher Pym

John Joseph Maria Figueroa  (1920) was born and raised in Kingston Jamaica. 
He died in Milton Keynes, England in 1999. A person of great gusto, Figueroa 
travelled widely studying, teaching, examining schools, broadcasting cricket, 
giving readings and lectures, attending music festivals, visiting churches, 
cathedrals and museums, dropping in on friends, trying out restaurants. Appointed 
in 1953 as Senior Lecturer in Education at the University College of the West 
Indies (Mona), then in 1958 as Professor of Education at the University of the 
West Indies (Mona), in 1971 Figueroa moved on to the University of Puerto 
Rico, then later the University of Jos Nigeria, then finally to the Open 
University in Milton Keynes, England where he was part of the team that  developed 
innovative "Third World" Curriculum including his anthology of Caribbean and 
African Literature. Figueroa was intimately involved in the evolution of 
twentieth-century Caribbean literature  as a writer, anthologist, editor, critic, 
broadcaster and most of all as an educator. He was also part of the early evolution 
of Caribbean Linguistics and was instrumental in the 1968 conference on 
Pidgins and Creoles held at UWI Mona.  

In addition to the Caribbean, he lived in Africa , the UK, Europe, and North 
America. Yet, he called himself "Un hombre del Caribe" â^À^Ó A man of the 
Caribbean. He was a ceaseless promoter of Caribbean writers  and Caribbean literature. 
Here in this unique collection, we celebrate both the literary life of an 
individual, and the literature he so loved. We get to know John Figueroa and the 
era in which he lived through his poetry, autobiographical writings, opinions 
in interviews, and remembrances by family, friends and colleagues. We also get 
to enjoy a fine slice of Caribbean writing through  some of the Caribbean's 
most accomplished poets and short fiction writers.  

At Home the Green Remains â^À^Ó Caribbean Writing in Honor of John Figueroa  is 
compiled and edited by his youngest daughter  Esther Figueroa. She is a writer, 
media-maker, linguist and educator. She has made numerous documentaries, 
television series, television specials and educational media. Her work in 
linguistics includes her book "Sociolinguistic Metatheory", Pergammon,1994; and 
current work on the African and African Diaspora oral gesture known in Jamaica as 
kiss teeth.


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