Una Marson: Selected Poems (Caribbean Modern Classics) - Tapa blanda

Marson, Una

 
9781845231682: Una Marson: Selected Poems (Caribbean Modern Classics)
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ISBN 10: 1845231686 ISBN 13: 9781845231682
Editorial: Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2011

Sinopsis

Una Marson is widely recognised as 'the earliest female poet of significance to emerge in West Indian literature', but whilst her role as an early feminist and a 'first woman' publisher, broadcaster, pan-Africanist and anti-racist features on many web pages, her poetry has received less considered critical attention.

This may be because her work is very diverse, even seemingly contradictory. She is a Jamaican poet who pioneered the articulation of gender and racial oppression, brought Jamaican vernacular voices alongside a Wordsworthian passion for nature, and ventured to give subjectivity to the powerless and marginalised. Author of Afro-blues that draw on both African-American and Jamaican speech, and of folk monologues, she also wrote devotional sonnets and love lyrics within a distinctly un-modernist tradition. Marson's work as presented here is a complex subject, striving to answer the questions of how to write as a woman; as a black, modern, diasporic subject; for the poor and powerless.

As Donnell's extensive selection shows, and her introduction argues, Marson's is a significant poetic achievement.

Una Marson is widely recognised as the earliest female poet of significance to emerge in West Indian literature

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Acerca del autor

Una Marson was the assistant editor of a Jamaican political journal, Jamaica Critic, and founder of the Cosmopolitan magazine. She is the author of the poetry collections Heights and Depths, Moth and the Star, and Tropic Reveries and the plays At What Price, London Calling, and Pocomania. Her collaboration with the BBC led to the creation of the hugely influential Caribbean Voices program.

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Editorial
Peepal Tree Press Ltd
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1845231686
ISBN 13 
9781845231682
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Número de páginas
164
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