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Dead Woman Pickney - A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Dead Woman Pickney - A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Life Writing
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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.
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