Woodside Pear Tree Grove P O

Author : Erna Brodber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9766401527

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Woodside, Pear Tree Grove P.O. by Erna Brodber Pdf

Clear Word and Third Sight examines the strands of a collective African diasporic consciousness represented in the work of a number of Black Caribbean writers. Catherine A. John shows how a shared consciousness, or third sight, is rooted in both pre- and postcolonial cultural practices and disseminated through a rich oral tradition. This consciousness has served diasporic communities by creating an alternate philosophical worldsense linking those of African descent across space and time. Contesting popular discourses about what constitutes culture and maintaining that neglected strains in negritude discourse provide a crucial philosophical perspective on the connections between folk practices, cultural memory, and collective consciousness, John examines the diasporic principles in the work of the negritude writers Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, and Leopold Senghor. She traces the manifestations and reworkings of their ideas in Afro-Caribbean writing from the eastern and French Caribbean, as well as the Caribbean diaspora in the United States. The authors she discusses include Jamaica Kincaid, Earl Lovelace, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, and Edouard Glissant, amon

Author : Violet Harrington Bryan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496836243

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Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard by Violet Harrington Bryan Pdf

Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard, two sister-writers born and raised in Jamaica, re-create imagined and lived homelands in their literature by commemorating the history, culture, and religion of the Caribbean. Velma Pollard was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica. By the time she was three, her parents had moved to Woodside, St. Mary, in northeast Jamaica, where her sister, Erna, was born. Even though they both travel widely and often, the sisters both still live in Jamaica. The sisters write about their homeland as a series of memories and stories in their many works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They center on their home village of Woodside in St. Mary Parish, Jamaica, occasionally moving the settings of their fiction and poetry to other regions of Jamaica and various Caribbean islands, as well as other parts of the diaspora in the United States, Canada, and England. The role of women in the patriarchal society of Jamaica and much of the Caribbean is also a subject of the sisters’ writing. Growing up in what Brodber calls the kumbla, the protective but restrictive environment of many women in the Anglo-Caribbean, is an important theme in their fiction. In her fiction, Pollard discusses the gender gaps in employment and the demands of marriage and the special contributions of women to family and community. Many scholars have also explored the significance of spirit in Brodber’s work, including the topics of “spirit theft,” “spirit possession,” and spirits existing through time, from Africa to the present. Brodber’s narratives also show communication between the living and the dead, from Jane and Louisa (1980) to Nothing’s Mat (2014). Yet, few scholars have examined Brodber’s work on par with her sister’s writing. Drawing upon interviews with the authors, this is the first book to give Brodber and Pollard their due and study the sisters’ important contributions.

Author : Michael A. Bucknor,Alison Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136821745

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The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Michael A. Bucknor,Alison Donnell Pdf

This Companion is divided into six sections that provide an introduction to and critical history of the field, discussions of key texts and a critical debate on major topics such as the nation, race, gender and migration. In the final section contributors examine the material dissemination of Caribbean literature and point towards the new directions that Caribbean literature and criticism are taking.

Author : Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978806566

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Dreams of Archives Unfolded by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt Pdf

The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Although the premier genres of writing postcoloniality in the Caribbean have been understood to be fiction and poetry, established figures such as Erna Brodber, Maryse Condé, Lorna Goodison, Edwidge Danticat, Saidiya Hartmann, Ruth Behar, and Dionne Brand and emerging writers such as Yvonne Shorter Brown, and Gaiutra Bahadur use life writing to question the relationship between the past and the present. Stitt theorizes that the remarkable flowering of life writing by Caribbean women since 2000 is not an imitation of the “memoir boom” in North America and Europe; instead, it marks a different use of the genre born out of encountering gendered absences in archives and ancestral memory that cannot be filled with more research. Dreams of Archives makes a significant contribution to studies of Caribbean literature by demonstrating that women’s autobiographical narratives published in the past twenty years are feminist epistemological projects that rework Caribbean studies’ longstanding commitment to creating counter-archives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : UVA:X030346381

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The Handbook of Jamaica for ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jenny Sharpe
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810141599

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Immaterial Archives by Jenny Sharpe Pdf

In this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyond the idea of art and literature as an alternative archive to the historical records of slavery and its aftermath. Immaterial Archives explores instead the intangible phenomena of affects, spirits, and dreams that Caribbean artists and writers introduce into existing archives. Through the works of Frantz Zéphirin, Edouard Duval-Carrié, M. NourbeSe Philip, Erna Brodber, and Kamau Brathwaite, Immaterial Archives examines silences as black female spaces, Afro-Creole sacred worlds as diasporic cartographies, and the imaginative conjoining of spirits with industrial technologies as disruptions of enlightened modernity.

Author : Carole Boyce Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1269 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851097050

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Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora [3 volumes] by Carole Boyce Davies Pdf

The authoritative source for information on the people, places, and events of the African Diaspora, spanning five continents and five centuries. The field of African Diaspora studies is rapidly growing. Until now there was no single, authoritative source for information on this broad, complex discipline. Drawing on the work of over 300 scholars, this encyclopedia fills that void. Now the researcher, from high school level up, can go to a single reference for information on the historical, political, economic, and cultural relations between people of African descent and the rest of the world community. Five hundred years of relocation and dislocation, of assimilation and separation have produced a rich tapestry of history and culture into which are woven people, places, and events. This authoritative, accessible work picks out the strands of the tapestry, telling the story of diverse peoples, separated by time and distance, but retaining a commonality of origin and experience. Organized in A–Z sections covering global topics, country of origin, and destination country, the work is designed for easy use by all.

Author : Angelique V. Nixon
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626745995

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Resisting Paradise by Angelique V. Nixon Pdf

Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean identity. It examines Caribbean writers and others who confront the region's overdependence on the tourist industry and the many ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism. Angelique V. Nixon interrogates the relationship between culture and sex within the production of "paradise" and investigates the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists, and activists respond to and powerfully resist this production. Forms of resistance include critiquing exploitation, challenging dominant historical narratives, exposing tourism's influence on cultural and sexual identity in the Caribbean and its diaspora, and offering alternative models of tourism and travel. Resisting Paradise places emphasis on the Caribbean people and its diasporic subjects as travelers and as cultural workers contributing to alternate and defiant understandings of tourism in the region. Through a unique multidisciplinary approach to comparative literary analysis, interviews, and participant observation, Nixon analyzes the ways Caribbean cultural producers are taking control of representation. While focused mainly on the Anglophone Caribbean, the study covers a range of territories including Antigua, the Bahamas, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, as well as Trinidad and Tobago, to deliver a potent critique.

Author : Odile Ferly,Tegan Zimmerman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031321115

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Chronotropics by Odile Ferly,Tegan Zimmerman Pdf

This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by twenty-first-century Caribbean women writers to restore a connection to spacetime, expanding it within and beyond the region. Arguing that the chronotropics points to a vocation for social justice and collective healing, this pan-Caribbean volume returns to autochthonous ontologies and epistemologies to propose a poetics and politics of the chronotropics that is anticolonial, gender inclusive, pluralistic, and non-anthropocentric. This is an open access book.

Author : Véronique Lacoste
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027252654

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Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools by Véronique Lacoste Pdf

This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an important challenge is how to efficiently account for language learning mechanisms and use. To date, this book is the first to offer an interdisciplinary look into phonological and phonetic variation observed in primary school in Jamaica, that is from the perspective of classic variationist and quantitative sociolinguistics and a usage-based model. Both frameworks function as explanatory for the children s learning of phono-stylistic variation, which they encounter in their immediate linguistic environment, i.e. most often through their teachers speech. This book is intended for sociolinguists interested in child language variation, linguists working on formal aspects of the languages of the Caribbean, applied linguists concerned with the teaching and learning of second language phonology, and any researchers interested in applying variationist and quantitative methods to classroom second language learning."

Author : Hunter, Maureen
Publisher : OIBooks-Libros
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781896239996

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Three Plays of Maureen Hunter by Hunter, Maureen Pdf

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Author : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1581 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405192446

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The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, 3 Volume Set by Brian W. Shaffer Pdf

This Encyclopedia offers an indispensable reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English-language. With nearly 500 contributors and over one million words, it is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference guide to twentieth-century fiction in the English language. Contains over 500 entries of 1000-3000 words written in lucid, jargon-free prose, by an international cast of leading scholars Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish Fiction, American Fiction, and World Fiction, with each volume edited by a leading scholar in the field Entries cover major writers (such as Saul Bellow, Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, A.S. Byatt, Samual Beckett, D.H. Lawrence, Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee, and Ngûgî Wa Thiong’o) and their key works Examines the genres and sub-genres of fiction in English across the twentieth century (including crime fiction, Sci-Fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant-garde novel) as well as the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field, such as censorship, globalization, modernist fiction, fiction and the film industry, and the fiction of migration, diaspora, and exile

Author : Fariba de Bruin-Derakhshani,Barbara Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : IND:30000115590998

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10 Years Prince Claus Fund, 1996-2006 by Fariba de Bruin-Derakhshani,Barbara Murray Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924063097681

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Journal of the Jamaica Agricultural Society by Anonim Pdf

Includes Report of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, 1963-

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Jamaica
ISBN : UOM:39015009205546

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The Handbook of Jamaica ... by Anonim Pdf