Constab Ballads

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Constab Ballads is a collection of dialect poems by Claude McKay that vividly depict the lives and experiences of Jamaican police officers and rural folk.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
associatedWith Claude McKay
author Claude McKay
countryOfOrigin Jamaica
creator Claude McKay
depicts Jamaican police officers
Jamaican rural life
genre dialect poetry
hasInfluenceOn Caribbean literature
Jamaican poetry
hasPart dialect poems
language English
Jamaican Patois
surface form: Jamaican Creole
literaryForm poetry
literaryLanguageFeature use of Jamaican dialect
literaryPeriod early 20th-century literature
mainSubject Jamaica Constabulary Force
surface form: Jamaican Constabulary Force

rural Jamaican folk
movement early Caribbean literature
partOf Claude McKay bibliography
placeOfPublication Jamaica
portrays lives of Jamaican policemen
social conditions in rural Jamaica
setting colonial Jamaica
theme colonial authority
police and community relations
rural hardship
social injustice
working-class life

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Claude McKay notableWork Constab Ballads
Songs of Jamaica followedBy Constab Ballads