Yvonne Shorter Brown Yvonne Shorter Brow Dead Woman Pick (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Dead Woman PickneyCondition: NewSubtitle: A Memoir of Childhood in JamaicaAuthor: Yvonne Shorter Brown, Yvonne Shorter Brown (author) & Sonja Boon (Foreword by)Contributor: Sonja Boon (Foreword by)Format: PaperbackISBN-10: 1771125470EAN: 9781771125475ISBN: 9781771125475Edition: 2ndPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier University PressGenre: BiographyTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Date: 04/30/2022Description: Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown's life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history.Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, the author sets out to construct a narrative that at once explains her own origins in the former slave society of Jamaica and traces the outsider status of Africa and its peoples. The author's quest to understand the absence of her mother and her mother's people from her life is at the heart of the narrative. The author struggles through life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father's brutal family. In this updated edition she adds a coda, 'finding mother', constructed from archives, genealogy, letters, and journals. Initially published in 2010, this second edition includes expanded text and a foreword by Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: CAItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 133mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 340gBook Series: Life WritingType: Caribbean & West IndiesRelease Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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