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The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive

Name: The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive
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ISBN: 9780811231176

Marcia Douglas

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A startling new dream-like vision of Jamaica—a work of surreal poetic fiction, lavishly studded with ecological prayers, drawings, and footnotes about healing herbs, disappearing flora-fauna, and buried herstories—by Whiting Award winner Marcia DouglasZooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, which continues Marcia Douglas' "speculative ancestral project" (The Whiting Foundation) begun with The Marvellous Equations of the Dread. Her new poetic and eco-spiritual book carries further the cultural preservation so central to Douglas' vision. The Shante Dream Arkive brings alive a mosaic of characters—all searching through history for something or someone lost to the island: a mother searches for her missing child through time and space; an undocumented migrant's struggles with loss while living in the US; a youth...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

New Directions

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

2024026062

ISBN 13:

9780811231176