Foreword to the First Edition ix Rex Nettleford Preface xi Dread Talk -- The Speech of the Rastafari in Jamaica 3(16) The Social History of Dread Talk 19(34) Rastafarian Language in St Lucia and Barbados 53(16) Dread Talk -- The Speech of Rastafari in Modern Jamaican Poetry 69(17) The Lexicon of Dread Talk in Standard Jamaican English 86(8) Globalization and the Language of Rastafari 94(17) The Road of the Dread 109(2) Lorna Goodison Bibliography 111