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Working Miracles
Women's Lives in the English-speaking Caribbean
Av Olive Senior
Häftad, 1991
300 kr
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Intended as an introductory sourcebook, Olive Senior provides a background to Caribbean literature, politics and society.This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a …
Paradise Once
Av Olive Senior
Inbunden, 2025
317 kr
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Paradise Once traces the aftermath of the massacre by Spanish forces of the fictional Maima village in Cuba in 1513. Some believe the destruction of Maima is the result of angering the cemies - Taino spiritual entities - when foreign practices, contrary to the sacred laws of the Taino, began to …
Pandemic Poems
First Wave
Av Olive Senior
E-bok, 2021
300 kr
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Early in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Olive Senior began posting her series of Pandemic Poems on social media. The project was a way of bearing witness to the strangeness of it all and forging a reassuring connection with readers. Each poem is a riff on a word or phrase trending in the …
Hurricane Watch
New and Collected Poems
Av Olive Senior
Häftad, 2022
312 kr
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Longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award 2023 by the League of Canadian Poets. Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first four books of poetry alongside a new collection. Recipient of the Musgrave Gold Medal in 2005 from the Institute of …
Pain Tree
Av Olive Senior
Häftad, 2017
135 kr
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Winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, The Pain Tree is Olive Senior at her very best, unforgettable short stories set in Jamaica and Canada, now available in this beautiful UK and Caribbean edition from Peepal Tree Press. Olive Senior’s new collection of stories, The Pain Tree , …
Dying to Better Themselves
West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
Av Olive Senior
Häftad, 2014
473 kr
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The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the “Windrush Generation” in 1950’s England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier narrative: that of the neglected post-emancipation generation of the 1850’s who were lured to Panama by the promise of …
Boonoonoonous Hair
Av Olive Senior
Inbunden, 2019
147 kr
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In this vibrant and exquisitely illustrated picture book, written by Commonwealth Prize-winning Jamaican-Canadian Olive Senior, and with pictures by the acclaimed artist Laura James (the team that created Anna Carries Water), a young girl learns to love her difficult-to-manage, voluminous and …
