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Gender and Identity in the Short Fiction of Velma Pollard and Erna Brodber
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Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard have always written short stories while also writing novels and poetry. They both began with short fiction, and their most recent books are collections of their stories, Pollard’s Woman I & II: New and
Selected Stories (2011) and Brodber’s The World Is a High Hill (2012). The stories portray Jamaican women as they struggle against a patriarchal society and search for their own identities. Based on the sisters’ own experiences as diasporic women, these personal stories are also tales of Jamaican culture and myth. The sisters’ short fiction indicates many of the main themes throughout their literary careers: migration, gender, history, and resistance. The influence of African folklore and culture and that of the sister-writers' home in Woodside, St. Mary, Jamaica is dialectic or interplay. The sisters' projections of their homeland and their writing themes and narrative strategies have influenced many educators, scholars, and writers.
Title: Gender and Identity in the Short Fiction of Velma Pollard and Erna Brodber
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Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard have always written short stories while also writing novels and poetry.
They both began with short fiction, and their most recent books are collections of their stories, Pollard’s Woman I & II: New and
Selected Stories (2011) and Brodber’s The World Is a High Hill (2012).
The stories portray Jamaican women as they struggle against a patriarchal society and search for their own identities.
Based on the sisters’ own experiences as diasporic women, these personal stories are also tales of Jamaican culture and myth.
The sisters’ short fiction indicates many of the main themes throughout their literary careers: migration, gender, history, and resistance.
The influence of African folklore and culture and that of the sister-writers' home in Woodside, St.
Mary, Jamaica is dialectic or interplay.
The sisters' projections of their homeland and their writing themes and narrative strategies have influenced many educators, scholars, and writers.
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