Olive Senior - (Writers and Their Work) by Denise Decaires Narain (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This book offers the first sustained and comprehensive discussion of the Jamaican writer, Olive Senior's extensive oeuvre, including poetry, short stories and socio-cultural writings published from the late 1970s onwards.
- About the Author: Denise de Caires Narain is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex and also taught at the University of the West Indies.
- 163 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Caribbean & Latin American
- Series Name: Writers and Their Work
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About the Book
Denise deCaires Naraindiscusses Senior's technique of alerting the reader to the historical narratives of the individuals she writes about, and foregrounds the writer's work as a distinct and invaluable intervention in Caribbean Literature.
Book Synopsis
This book offers the first sustained and comprehensive discussion of the Jamaican writer, Olive Senior's extensive oeuvre, including poetry, short stories and socio-cultural writings published from the late 1970s onwards. Now resident in Toronto, Senior's work remains intensely focused on Jamaica: its landscape, language, people and cultures. Her work offers portraits of 'ordinary' Jamaicans negotiating the harsh postcolonial realities of life within Jamaica as well as those who migrate in search of work. The book discuss Senior's scrutiny of the way power operates at global and local levels alerting the reader to the bigger historical narratives that position (but don't quite 'fix') the individuals she writes about. The detailed inventory of Jamaican life in the short stories and poetry is consolidated in Senior's cultural archival work. Deploying a poetics of wry understatement, Senior's oeuvre insinuates rather than declaims its truths and makes a distinct and invaluable intervention in Caribbean Literature.About the Author
Denise de Caires Narain is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex and also taught at the University of the West Indies. She was born in Guyana and was Chair of the Guyana Prize in 2002. She has published widely on Caribbean women's writing including Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry: Making Style (2001).Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.6 Inches (W) x .4 Inches (D)
Weight: .39 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Writers and Their Work
Sub-Genre: Caribbean & Latin American
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 163
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Denise Decaires Narain
Language: English
Street Date: August 30, 2011
TCIN: 1002819215
UPC: 9780746310991
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-9880
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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