Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women - Couverture souple

Ford-Smith, Honor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 976640156X ISBN 13 : 9789766401566

Editeur : University of the West Indies Press, 2005

Synopsis

The re-publication of Lionheart Gal marks an event unique in contemporary literature. It is the distillation of the Jamaican woman's experience in fifteen compelling life stories from the internationally known Sistren Theatre Collective.

Since 1977 the women of Sistren have been exploring the lives of Caribbean women, from which they create plays, workshops and screen prints for presentation throughout the Caribbean and elsewhere. This book is based on testimonies from Sistren collected and edited by Honor Ford-Smith into a vivid record of women's lives. The stories retain all the emotional depth of works of the imagination; yet they are at the same time invaluable records of oral history. Scholars of language, culture, politics and literature will need this book; the general reader will revel in it.

"These `sistren' dare to present themselves just as they are - the sounds of their days and their souls intact." - Alice Walker

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Honor Ford-Smith has been the artistic director of Sistren, an independent woman's cultural collective, and is an actress and poet now residing in Toronto, Canada, where she is working on her PhD.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of the West Indies Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 976640156X
• ISBN 13: 9789766401566
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 316
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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