8%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Olive Senior
Denise Decaires Narain
€ 24.99
€ 22.93
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Olive Senior
Paperback.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
Number of Pages
163
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746310991
SKU
V9780746310991
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Denise Decaires Narain
Denise de Caires is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex
Reviews for Olive Senior