Barbara Jenkins Knihy

Exploring the interplay between desire and social relations, this book examines how aesthetics can reveal insights into political and economic structures of domination. By integrating Carl Jung's analytical psychology with Gilles Deleuze's philosophy, it posits that libido, influenced by sexual difference, drives cultural production across various practices, including art and economy. The work delves into the connections between individual desires and broader societal dynamics, offering a nuanced understanding of cultural manifestations.

From New Orleans, newlyweds Peter and Barbara set out on a two-and-one-half year walk through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and to the Oregon coast

Indira Gabriel, recently abandoned by her lover, Solomon, embarks on a project to reinvigorate a dilapidated bar into something special. In this warm, funny, sexy, and bittersweet novel, Barbara Jenkins draws together a richly-drawn cast of characters, like a Trinidadian Cheers. Meet Bostic, Solomon’s boyhood friend, who is determined to keep the bar as a shrine; I Cynthia, the tale-telling Belmont maco; KarlLee, the painter with a very complicated love-life; fatherless Jah-Son; and Fritzie, single mum and Indira’s loyal right-hand woman. At the book’s center is the unforgettable Indira, with her ebullience and sadness, her sharpness and honesty, obsession with the daily horoscope and addiction to increasingly absurd self-help books. In this warm, funny, sexy, and bittersweet novel, Barbara Jenkins hears, like Sam Selvon, the melancholy behind “the kiff-kiff laughter,” as darkness from Indira’s past threatens her drive to make a new beginning.

The narrative follows Barbara Jenkins's transformative journey walking across America, beginning with her challenging upbringing in the Ozarks. Her adventurous spirit is ignited by a whirlwind romance with Peter, leading them to embark on a nearly three-year trek from New Orleans to the Pacific Coast. Despite media attention and the thrill of adventure, Barbara confronts harsh realities, including the unraveling of her marriage and numerous physical and emotional challenges. Her story is one of resilience, courage, and the pursuit of self-discovery amid adversity.

From her childhood in colonial Port of Spain, to becoming a young mother in Wales and then returning to Trinidad, Jenkins tells her story with wit, emotional sensitivity and insight. Her experience is one rich with themes of gender, race, colonial politics, migration, language and class, woven into a compelling, poignant, and often very funny narrative.

Health and Family Life Education is an exciting new course for Caribbean Secondary Schools. It addresses the needs of lower secondary students and teachers for a life-skills based course reflecting the CARICOM Regional Curriculum Framework document but also takes into account national syllabuses, such as those from Jamaica, Belize and Trinidad.