February 17, 2012

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I truly believe that my writing should be universally understood even though some of the cultural context and even some of the language and other nuances might be lost to those who are not from my country of origin. At the same time I am conscious of writing out of a sense of place. In a sense that place determines who my primary readers are: the people of Jamaica and the wider Caribbean the challenge is to particularize the universal: to speak of large events through small mouths. Olive Senior, in the newspaper The Reluctant Interpreter In Gardening in the Tropics the Gardens ambivalence functions as a space to negotiate the complex exchanges between colonial, post-colonial and global and to describe the contradictory impulses within current theory toward identities grounded in regional and historical particularities and toward identities that are forever deferred by movements of trans-national exchange.- Jordan Stoke, in the article Gardening in the Diaspora: Place and Identity in Olive Seniors Poetry The oral culture has to be seen not as ossified, decayed, dying or backward traditional culture but as the continued bearer of a whole way of beingto claim the influence of the oral and assert its continued potency, is not to devalue literary endeavor but to enhance it.-Olive Senior, in the article The Poem as Gardening, the story of Su-Su: Finding a literary voice The garden allotments of the plantation slaves might also be termed tropical gardens of subversion and dissent, for it was here away from the eye of the plantation owner that the seeds of old customs and new rebellions were planted and brought fruition.-Anne Collett, in The Journal of the South Pacific Association for commonwealth Literature

Poem

Garden Motif

Punning (Play on Words)

Ecological Issues

Features of Orature

Impact of History

Magic Realism

Polyvocal Perspective

Monologue

Cultural Recuperation: Myths and Legends * *

Feminist Concern

Inter Textuality

Meditation on Yellow Caribbean Basin Initiative Stowaway Meditation on Red All Clear 1928 Annatto and Guinep Paw Paw The Knot Garden The Tree of Life

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Poem

Garden Motif

Punning (Play on Words)

Ecological Issues

Features of Orature

Impact of History

Magic Realism

Polyvocal Perspective

Monologue

Cultural Recuperation: Myths and Legends

Feminist Concern

Inter Textuality

Seeing The Light Tropic Love Marassa: Divine Twins Ogun: God of Iron Babalu : Lord of the Earth Guava 2

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