...David Scott [email protected] © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Sometime in 1980, I attended a seminar held in one of the rooms in the social sciences block at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where Erna Brodber presented parts of her oral history research on early...

... to more conflicted positions in-between.” Throughout her essays and fiction, the Jamaican writer, sociologist, and activist Erna Brodber recuperates discarded, illegible, or negative elements in the literary field of Caribbean literature. This essay argues that Brodber uses a mode of self-negation in her...

...Catherine John This article is an in-depth interview with the writer. The interview is prefaced by an analysis of the significance of Erna Brodber's historical and sociological texts, as well as her novels, whcih function as the backdrop for her community activism in the Woodside village, her home...

...Jenny Sharpe Erna Brodber's historical interest in oral accounts as a source of emotional realities and social-psychological responses is expanded in her experimental novel Louisiana to include supernatural and extra-ordinary phenomena. Her incorporation of spirit possession into the life...

...Rae Ann Meriwether In this essay, Meriwether argues that Erna Brodber's representation of Vodou, spiritism, and blues music in her novel Louisiana illuminates a shared praxis among Afro-diasporic subjects that forms the basis of their viable political community. Using Houston A. Baker Jr.'s theory...

...Erna Brodber In a response to the four essays on her work—by Evelyn O'Callaghan, Catherine John, Jenny Sharpe, and Rae Ann Meriwether—published in the same issue of Small Axe , Erna Brodber attempts to explain why her work is so difficult. If O'Callaghan's students complain that Brodber's work...

...Evelyn O'Callaghan This essay focuses on the densely interdisciplinary nature of Erna Brodber's textual knowledge production, its visionary quality, and the complex narrative strategies of her fictions that bear comparison with those of Wilson Harris. Mapping the scaffolding of Brodber's formal...

... a substantive analysis of Erna Brodber’s novel Nothing’s Mat as a fractal narrative of gendered in/securities in the Caribbean. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Caribbean in/securities Erna Brodber Nothing’s Mat fractals This essay serves as an introduction to a special section...

...Kelly Baker Josephs “See you there. In the free.” This is the closing statement in Erna Brodber's fourth novel, The Rainmaker's Mistake (2007). In the novel, Brodber creatively imagines a past for the New World present, taking advantage of the space literary speculation and science fiction offer...

..., and the characters and epiphanies in the novels of Jamaican Erna Brodber and in Brown Girl in the Ring, by Canada-based Nalo Hopkinson.⁵ But I suspect that most of the texts that expound the African-based poeticist phi- losophy of which Henry speaks are not canonical but rather secreted in anthropological...

... note, “it is not only that there are diff erences between diff erent groups of women but that these diff erences are often also confl icts of interest Erna Brodber’s Myal and Maryse Condé’s Crossing the Mangrove (Traversée de la mangrove) are particularly valuable texts to read...

... at UWI Mona in the vanguard of this intellectual movement—Maureen Warner-Lewis, Dell Lewis, Lucille Mathurin Mair, and Erna Brodber. Lewis, as Brathwaite goes on to describe in his essay, used the concept of the yard to frame her analysis of literary tropes. Mathurin Mair had recently completed her 1974...

... of Space (1983); Brathwaite's “Metaphors of Underdevelopment” (1985); Walcott's Nobel lecture (1992); and Erna Brodber's The Continent of Black Consciousness (2003). 21 The Brathwaite essay is particularly valuable because it intersperses long extracts from his X/Self and Mother Poem...

... from that office stays so strongly with me still. 4 “Into the kumbla” is repeated in Erna Brodber’s 1988 novel Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home , emerging from the trickster context of an Anancy tale and coming to take on paradoxical meanings: the kumbla is a calabash of hiding, protection...

... inContemporary Religions /Center for WorkerSciences French Education andReligieuses Francophone of the. City Studies College, the of Erna Brodber was born and raised in deep rural Jamaica. She went through school on schol- arshipssheofsociologicaladoctorate MusgraveAfricans engages and in enslaved...

... ADVISORY BOARD Edward Baugh Lloyd Best Kamau Brathwaite Erna Brodber Rhonda Cobham Locksley Edmondson Norman Girvan Stuart Hall Robert Hill George Lamming Kari Levitt Rupert Lewis Earl Lovelace Rex Nettleford Gordon Rohlehr Maureen Warner-Lewis Michael Witter Sylvia Wynter THE SMALL AXE...

..., There Is No More Haiti , 157. 10 Ibid. 9 Ibid., 11. 8 Tommy Orange, There There (New York: Vintage, 2019), 8, 9, 10. 7 Erna Brodber, A Study of Yards in the City of Kingston , Working Paper No. 9 (Kingston: ISER, 1975), 55, 55–56; Jovan Scott Lewis, Scammer’s Yard: The Crime...

.... Erna Brodber’s novels Myal and Louisiana are texts that refl ect traditional African thought. Both narratives critically engage with the Caribbean’s ethno-philosophy and represent a rethinking of the Eurocentric nature of Afro-Caribbean philosophy— endeavors Henry encourages. Brodber poeticizes...

... of such “lived practices” of hybridity are, for the most part, filtered through textual representations—Erna Brodber’s novel Myal; Derek Walcott’s play Pantomime; Ismith Khan’s novel The Jumbi Bird; and Ramabai Espinet’s short story “Barred: Trinidad 1987,” for example—she reads these practices “conjunctur...

... of such “lived practices” of hybridity are, for the most part, filtered through textual representations—Erna Brodber’s novel Myal; Derek Walcott’s play Pantomime; Ismith Khan’s novel The Jumbi Bird; and Ramabai Espinet’s short story “Barred: Trinidad 1987,” for example—she reads these practices “conjunctur...