Olive Senior / Denise deCaires Narain.

Olive Senior /

The Jamaican writer, Olive Senior, has been writing and publishing since the 1980s. Her oeuvre includes poetry and short stories as well as journalism, a sociological study of Caribbean women and a comprehensive encyclopaedia of Jamaican culture. Although Senior now lives in Toronto, her work remain...

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Main Author: DeCaires Narain, Denise, 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tavistock, Devon : Northcote House Publishers : British Council, 2011.
Series:Writers and their work.
Subjects:
Senior, Olive > Criticism and interpretation.
Authors, Jamaican > 20th century > Biography.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Locating Olive Senior's Work
  • The Story as Gossip: Creolizing the Text
  • Negotiating 'Difference': Femininity, Masculinity, Ethnicity
  • Nature Studies: Olive Senior's 'Down-to-Earth' Eco-Poetics
  • Spinning a Yarn: Labouring Lives, Migration Stories and the Writer's Craft
  • The Writer as Cultural Archivist: Olive Senior's Non-Fiction Works.

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