...Donette Francis A Discussion of Lorna Goodison's memoir, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Lorna Goodison, in Jamaica, 2006. Photograph by Denis Valentine. BOOK DISCUSSION: Lorna Goodison, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island...

... about winston his lack of wisdom his elongated empty head his loaded smith & wesson looking over his right shoulder   wid his right eye     eyeing my 13-year-old       with his left twice a week somebody's mother stages an aromatic feast simulated...

...Sandra Pouchet Paquet From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island is an autobiographical/biographical narrative that not only resituates the body of Lorna Goodison's published work in relation to the mother as archetype of female becoming, it also reaffirms the historical trajectory...

... Jamaican on the page. For creative writers navigating a global publishing market of anglophone editors and readers, this ongoing quest for a truer yet accessible orthography has both creative and market risk. But it also holds out rewards in reclaiming the Jamaican mother tongue and in developing...

...Sassy Ross A grandmother’s lost leg. A mother’s scarred sacrum. A daughter transformed into stone. In these five poems, history dwells in the body, the past deep in the bone. Confronting themes of poverty, intimate partner violence, and childhood sexual trauma, the poems speak to the varying ways...

... Mother Who Fathered Me . Smith identifies a governor’s wife as the instigator of the campaign, not the black Jamaican middle-class nationalist feminists who were responsible, yet his account has ascended to a form of academic folk knowledge that is oft repeated and rarely probed. As a valued resource...

...Lorna Goodison A response to Sandra Pouchet Paquet's and Donette Francis' discussion of Goodison's memoir, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis, and Sandra Pouchet Paquet Lorna Goodison...

... that this document has no probative legal or forensic value, as it pertains to the adjudication of the case. 21 The name “Cassia Rivulet” for Dj ——— 's mother is adapted from the tragically prophetic mother in Aimé Césaire's play Et les chiens se taisaient , published in the collection of his works titled...

... for its broader appeal. The very qualities of Romantic national identity: the identifi- cation between national subject and his nation’s landscape, the valorization of the folk, and the importance of the mother figure to guarantee identity were all sources to be mined...

.... Stories about slavery and the many cruelties of the time. Her mother herself had been an actual slave, a fact that was for her mother a source of great shame. Something that she did not enjoy talking about, and which she avoided as much as possible. There were so many, so many tales, so many miserable...

... tienes que vivir un verano en Nueva York El Gran Combo’s song and a couple of cardboard boxes full off pasteles³ my mother had spent a whole night making, a dozen jueyes (land crabs), and frozen fi sh from the Caribbean Sea kept me com- pany in the back seat. I was eight years old and suff ering from...

...Soyini Ayanna Forde The mother said, “That is between you and God,” and “God is love,” and would not let the daughter break herself apart, unless she promised to stitch herself back together. The mother teaches the daughter how to make thread, how to store the fine fibers of loss...

... field where her mother Martine was raped by a Tonton Macoute, tries to make peace with her past, her mother’s past and Haiti’s history.1 Framed as the struggle to answer affirmatively the question, 1 Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory (New York: Vintage, 1994). The quote at the opening...

... down to dinner after he left, all I could think about was his plate. It still sat in the cupboard. Before he left, for Sunday dinner my mother, his aunt, would fill his plate so high that I, then a child, would call it a mountain. Later I'd sit and watch him eat it as if this was a Southern Fair and he...

... and the geographies they inhabit. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Dominican American women mother-daughter relationships ghosts colonial experience sex work Although a year separates the publication of the debut novels by Dominican Americans Nelly Rosario...

... household, which includes a mother who detests the banality of her marriage and the boredom of motherhood, and a violent, emotionally distant father. Fulani presents a multidimensional struggle against racism at the institutional and social levels; against family dysfunction; and against...

...-year-old time capsule like indentured laborers, eating village slops on plantain leaves at weddings and funerals, chanting prayers in a language you neither speak nor understand. India has moved on. The Africans are running this place.” Her mother was at the green gate, expecting her. “You reach...