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"This is a valuable contribution to Caribbean studies.--Y. Fuentes ""CHOICE"" Placing the lesser-known Velma Pollard in conversation with Erna Brodber, Violet Harrington Bryan illustrates how local and presumably provincial environments (such as Woodside, Jamaica) are the sites of rich creativity and postcolonial politics. The first comparison of Brodber and Pollard, this book is a key contribution to scholarship on post-independence Jamaican literature.--Imani D. Owens, assistant professor of English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick"

Placing the lesser-known Velma Pollard in conversation with Erna Brodber, Violet Harrington Bryan illustrates how local and presumably provincial environments (such as Woodside, Jamaica) are the sites of rich creativity and postcolonial politics. The first comparison of Brodber and Pollard, this book is a key contribution to scholarship on post-independence Jamaican literature.--Imani D. Owens, assistant professor of English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

This is a valuable contribution to Caribbean studies.--Y. Fuentes CHOICE Placing the lesser-known Velma Pollard in conversation with Erna Brodber, Violet Harrington Bryan illustrates how local and presumably provincial environments (such as Woodside, Jamaica) are the sites of rich creativity and postcolonial politics. The first comparison of Brodber and Pollard, this book is a key contribution to scholarship on post-independence Jamaican literature.--Imani D. Owens, assistant professor of English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Readers desiring to learn more about the fiction and poetry of the talented Jamaican sisters Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard will welcome this comprehensive study. . . . Violet Harrington Bryan's slim volume packs a wealth of information about the familial, historical, diasporic, religious, and folkloric contexts to literary works steeped in the language and culture of Woodside, St. Mary, the rural village Brodber still calls home.--Jenny Sharpe ""New West indian Guide"" This is a valuable contribution to Caribbean studies.--Y. Fuentes ""CHOICE"" Placing the lesser-known Velma Pollard in conversation with Erna Brodber, Violet Harrington Bryan illustrates how local and presumably provincial environments (such as Woodside, Jamaica) are the sites of rich creativity and postcolonial politics. The first comparison of Brodber and Pollard, this book is a key contribution to scholarship on post-independence Jamaican literature.--Imani D. Owens, assistant professor of English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

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Violet Harrington Bryan is professor emerita of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. She is author of The Myth of New Orleans in Literature: Dialogues of Race and Gender, and her work has appeared in such journals as American Scholar, College Language Association Journal, and Louisiana Literature.

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