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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Bryan, Violet Harrington Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,c2021 |
Named Person: | Erna Brodber; Velma Pollard; Erna Brodber |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Violet Harrington Bryan |
ISBN: | 9781496836250 1496836251 9781496836236 1496836235 |
OCLC Number: | 1285782206 |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Description: | 1 online resource (149 p.). |
Contents: | Cover -- ERNA BRODBER AND VELMA POLLARD -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Woodside: The Lived and Imagined Homeland in the Fiction and Poetry of Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard -- Chapter 2. Velma Pollard's Karl and Erna Brodber's Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home -- Chapter 3. Spirit Theft and Spirit Possession in Erna Brodber's Myal and Louisiana -- Chapter 4. Migration, Return, and "Tomorrow's Spaces" in Velma Pollard's Writings -- Chapter 5. Erna Brodber's The Rainmaker's Mistake and Nothing's Mat as Afrofuturistic and Speculative Fiction Chapter 6. Gender and Identity in the Short Fiction of Velma Pollard and Erna Brodber -- Notes -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Series Title: | Caribbean Studies Ser. |
Abstract:
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. Drawing on interviews with the authors, this is the first book to give Brodber and Pollard their due.
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