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.
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