CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 18, 1983
Page 9
Women depicted inaccurately Jamaican poet challenges portrayal
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
Caribbean and North American black literature have failed to portray Jamaican women as the strong, suffering kind that they are. Lorna Goodison, a Jamaican artist and poet, said yesterday.
Goodison spoke at a poetry reading sponsored by the department of African studies. About 30 people attended the Council Room of the Kansasug Land
The image that most people have of Jamaican women was reinforced by Harry Belfonte's song "Matilda," which told the story of girls with her lower one's money, she said.
"Even in literature, with very few exceptions, the women are shadow images."
to say is that these women have never been adequately mirrored or rewarded
And no-one should be put on a pedestal, Goodison said, not even Jamaican women who often endure hardship. But she said that their resilience and courage should be portrayed in literature.
MANY JAMAICAN women travel miles to the marketplace with a basket of fruit to sell and then sleep at the market several nights to look over their goods. Jamaican women are often dressed in suits or large families on their own, she said.
"If we produce women like that, why are they not reflected in literature?" she exclaimed.
Goodison studied at the Jamaican School of Art and also at an institute in New York City. She is a member of the International Writing Program at the
University of Iowa this semester. The Centenary Medal of the Institute of Jamaica was awarded to her for contributions to Caribbean poetry, and she has been published in her home country and abroad.
THE STRENGTH of Jamaican women comes from their belief in the "great beyond," she said, a belief that bitterness deserves extreme hardship.
"Sometimes I am not sure I understand their strength, but I think it should be acknowledged," she said. "Jamaican women are not bitter. They don't have time to be bitter about their lives."
Goodison ended the poetry session with one of her poems, which, she said, was inspired by the Jamaican infatuation with travel.
"I won't tell you what I spy, but it is for that alone I tread this road."
KU music groups to perform Handel's 'Messiah' Sunday
By the Kansan Staff
Every semester the University Symphony, the Chamber Choir, the University Singers, the Concert Chorale, the Concert Choir and the University Chorus perform together as a final project.
Coordinating all these groups is a feat in itself, but this semester's performance has the added challenge of performing the "Messiah," the popular work by German composer George Freddrick Handei.
The choirs, choruses and the symphony will present a free performance of the "Messiah" at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium, featuring thirteen student soloists.
said that Handel wrote the work within 24 days in 1741.
James Ralston, professor of music and director of choral activities.
"Messiah" is performed more than any other oratorio, which is a religious composition written for chorus and orchestra. he said.
Handel included both the Old and New Testaments in this work, covering in three parts the birth of Jesus. Crucifixion and the Redemption.
Ralston said that the "Messiah" was traditionally associated with Easter, but that the piece is often performed during the Christmas season, especially the "Hallelujah Chorus."
"I'm always searching for a work of lasting value for the students to perform, so I chose 'Messiah' because it is a good piece and we didn't performed it since 1963," he said.
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THE WAY CAMPUS Fellowship will meet at 12:30 p.m. in Alcove G of the U
THE EMILY TAYLOR Women's Resource Center will present a lunch-on discussion titled "You Can Do It!" at noon in Alcove R of the Union
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A POETRY AND prose reading and photo exhibit of pictures taken during the filming of "The Day After" will be p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Univ.
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