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  • Dying to Better Themselves
    Olive Senior
    The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the 'Windrush Generation'in 1950s’ England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier narrative: that of the neglected post-emancipation generation of the 1850s who were lured to Panama by the promise of lucrative work and who initiated a pattern of circular migration that would transform the...
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    53,11 €

  • Pandemic Poems
    Olive Senior
    Early in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Olive Senior began posting her series of Pandemic Poems on social media. The project was a way of bearing witness to the strangeness of it all and forging a reassuring connection with readers. Each poem is a riff on a word or phrase trending in the first wave of the pandemic - an A to Z of the lexicon newly coined or quickly rep...
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    8,05 €

  • Dancing Lessons
    Olive Senior
    Her mother’s death and her father’s madness leave G unloved and unwanted as a child. Her runaway marriage brings her children but not the fulfillment she yearns for. Many years later, a hurricane destroys her Jamaican country house where she now lives alone and she ends up-unwillingly-in a ritzy retirement home in the city, placed there by her well-to-do but distant daughter. D...
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    22,07 €

  • Working Miracles
    Olive Senior
    This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a readable books based on a substantial academic examination of women’s lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. In addition she uses examples from literature and popular culture, adn the voices of...
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    26,63 €