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. Velma Pollard was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica. By
the time she was three, her parents had moved to Woodside, St.
Mary, in northeast Jamaica, where her sister, Erna, was born. Even
though they both travel widely and often, the sisters both still
live in Jamaica. The sisters write about their homeland as a series
of memories and stories in their many works of fiction, nonfiction,
and poetry. They center on their home village of Woodside in St.
Mary Parish, Jamaica, occasionally moving the settings of their
fiction and poetry to other regions of Jamaica and various
Caribbean islands, as well as other parts of the diaspora in the
United States, Canada, and England. The role of women in the
patriarchal society of Jamaica and much of the Caribbean is also a
subject of the sisters' writing. Growing up in what Brodber calls
the kumbla, the protective but restrictive environment of many
women in the Anglo-Caribbean, is an important theme in their
fiction. In her fiction, Pollard discusses the gender gaps in
employment and the demands of marriage and the special
contributions of women to family and community. Many scholars have
also explored the significance of spirit in Brodber's work,
including the topics of "spirit theft," "spirit possession," and
spirits existing through time, from Africa to the present.
Brodber's narratives also show communication between the living and
the dead, from Jane and Louisa (1980) to Nothing's Mat (2014). Yet,
few scholars have examined Brodber's work on par with her sister's
writing. Drawing upon interviews with the authors, this is the
first book to give Brodber and Pollard their due and study the
sisters' important contributions.
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