The Resource Dead woman pickney : a memoir of childhood in Jamaica, Yvonne Shorter Brown
Dead woman pickney : a memoir of childhood in Jamaica, Yvonne Shorter Brown
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The item Dead woman pickney : a memoir of childhood in Jamaica, Yvonne Shorter Brown represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
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- Summary
- Dead Woman Pickney chronicles life stories of growing up in Jamaica from 1943 to 1965 and contains both personal experience and history, told with stridency and humour. The author's coming of age parallels the political stages of Jamaica's moving from the richest Crown colony of Great Britain to an independent nation within the British Commonwealth of Nations. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with her astonishment at persistent racial marginalization, both locally and globally, 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 this narrative. The title, Dead Woman Pickney, is in Jamaican patois, and its meaning unfolds throughout the narrative. It begins with the author's childhood question of what a mother is, followed by the realization of the vulnerability of a child without its mother's protection. The term "pickney" was the name for slave children on sugar plantations, and post-emancipation the term was retained for the descendants of enslaved Africans and the children of black women fathered by slavers. The author struggles through her life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father's brutal family. A wonderful resource for teachers of history, social studies, cultural studies, and literature, this work could be used as a starting point to discuss issues of diasporic identities, colonialism, racism, impact of slavery, and Western imperialism around the world. It is also an engaging read for those interested in memoir and life writing
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9781554582747
- Label
- Dead woman pickney : a memoir of childhood in Jamaica
- Title
- Dead woman pickney
- Title remainder
- a memoir of childhood in Jamaica
- Statement of responsibility
- Yvonne Shorter Brown
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Dead Woman Pickney chronicles life stories of growing up in Jamaica from 1943 to 1965 and contains both personal experience and history, told with stridency and humour. The author's coming of age parallels the political stages of Jamaica's moving from the richest Crown colony of Great Britain to an independent nation within the British Commonwealth of Nations. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with her astonishment at persistent racial marginalization, both locally and globally, 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 this narrative. The title, Dead Woman Pickney, is in Jamaican patois, and its meaning unfolds throughout the narrative. It begins with the author's childhood question of what a mother is, followed by the realization of the vulnerability of a child without its mother's protection. The term "pickney" was the name for slave children on sugar plantations, and post-emancipation the term was retained for the descendants of enslaved Africans and the children of black women fathered by slavers. The author struggles through her life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father's brutal family. A wonderful resource for teachers of history, social studies, cultural studies, and literature, this work could be used as a starting point to discuss issues of diasporic identities, colonialism, racism, impact of slavery, and Western imperialism around the world. It is also an engaging read for those interested in memoir and life writing
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- Brown, Yvonne Shorter
- Dewey number
- 972.92/05092
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Life writing series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Brown, Yvonne Shorter
- Brown, Yvonne Shorter
- Racially mixed children
- Maternal deprivation
- College teachers
- Jamaica
- Jamaica
- Jamaica
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Dead woman pickney : a memoir of childhood in Jamaica, Yvonne Shorter Brown
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
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- multicolored
- Content category
- text
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- Control code
- MWT12147312
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781554582747
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT12147312
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 12147312
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- Dead woman pickney : a memoir of childhood in Jamaica, Yvonne Shorter Brown
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT12147312
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781554582747
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT12147312
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 12147312
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject
- Brown, Yvonne Shorter -- Childhood and youth
- Brown, Yvonne Shorter -- Family
- College teachers -- British Columbia -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Jamaica -- Biography
- Jamaica -- Social conditions
- Maternal deprivation -- Jamaica
- Racially mixed children -- Jamaica -- Biography
- Jamaica -- Race relations
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