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Auteur(s) : Bryan, Violet Harrington (1948-....)
Titre(s) : Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard [Texte imprimé] : folklore and culture in Jamaica / Violet Harrington Bryan
Publication : Jackson : University press of Mississippi, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-148 p.) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection : Caribbean studies series
Lien à la collection : Caribbean studies series
Note(s) : Bibliographie p. 119-136. Index
"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."
Sujet(s) : Brodber, Erna (1940-....) -- Critique et interprétation
Pollard, Velma (1937-....) -- Critique et interprétation
Littérature jamaïquaine -- Femmes écrivains
Littérature jamaïquaine -- Auteurs noirs
Littérature et folklore
Folklore -- Dans la littérature
Femmes -- Dans la littérature
Littérature jamaïquaine -- Thèmes, motifs
Jamaïque -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1496836200. - ISBN 9781496836205 (rel.). - ISBN 1496836219. - ISBN 9781496836212.
- ISBN 9781496836229 (erroné). - ISBN 9781496836236 (erroné). - ISBN 9781496836243
(erroné). - ISBN 9781496836250 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47277324r
Notice n° :
FRBNF47277324
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