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Dead woman pickney : a memoir of childhood in Jamaica
- Title
- Dead woman pickney : a memoir of childhood in Jamaica / Yvonne Shorter Brown ; foreword by Sonja Boon.
- Author
- Brown, Yvonne Shorter
- Publication
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2022]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Boon, Sonja
- Description
- xxviii, 313 pages : maps; 29 cm.
- Summary
- "Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown's life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history. Taking up the haunting memories of childhood, along with persistent racial marginalization of Black people, both globally and in Canada, 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 the narrative. The author struggles through life to discover the identity of her mother in the face of silence from her father's brutal family. In this updated edition she adds a coda, "finding mother", constructed from archives, genealogy, letters, and journals. Initially published in 2010, this second edition includes expanded text and a foreword by Sonja Boon, author of What the Oceans Remember."--
- Series Statement
- Life writing series
- Uniform Title
- Life writing series.
- Subject
- Brown, Yvonne Shorter > Childhood and youth
- Brown, Yvonne Shorter > Family
- Brown, Yvonne Shorter
- Racially mixed children > Jamaica > Biography
- Maternal deprivation > Jamaica
- College teachers > British Columbia > Biography
- Black people > Jamaica
- College teachers
- Families
- Maternal deprivation
- Race relations
- Racially mixed children
- Social conditions
- Jamaica > Race relations
- Jamaica > Social conditions
- Jamaica > Biography
- British Columbia
- Jamaica
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: One. Early Childhood Memories, 1947 -- 50 -- Two. Louisiana Blues, circa 1950 -- 54 -- Three. Three Life and Schooling in May Pen, circa 1955 -- 62 -- Four. Clarendon College, Chapelton, January 1960 -- July 1961 -- Five. Becoming a Teacher: Mico College, 1962 -- 65 -- Epilogue -- Family trees for Shorter, Reid, Goodwin -- Coda to the Second Edition: Finding Mother.
- Call Number
- Sc D 22-451
- ISBN
- 9781771125475
- 1771125470
- OCLC
- 1235415801
- Author
- Brown, Yvonne Shorter, author.
- Title
- Dead woman pickney : a memoir of childhood in Jamaica / Yvonne Shorter Brown ; foreword by Sonja Boon.
- Publisher
- Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2022]
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Life writing seriesLife writing series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Boon, Sonja, writer of foreword.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Brown, Yvonne Shorter. Dead woman pickney. Second edition. Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2022 1771125489 9781771125482 (OCoLC)1252905326
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 22-451