| Author: | Shara McCallum | ISBN: | 9781938584596 |
| Publisher: | Alice James Books | Publication: | January 19, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Alice James Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Shara McCallum |
| ISBN: | 9781938584596 |
| Publisher: | Alice James Books |
| Publication: | January 19, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Alice James Books |
| Language: | English |
These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara McCallum homogenizes childhood memories of her native Jamaica with a revised understanding of danger and corruption, teasing out notions of history, language, motherhood, rupture, memory, and identity. She weaves new cloth of oral tradition, struggling to arrange a comfort zone within the foreign manufactures of suburbia. Hers is the skilled music of a master.
These poems probe the definition of Motherland. Shara McCallum homogenizes childhood memories of her native Jamaica with a revised understanding of danger and corruption, teasing out notions of history, language, motherhood, rupture, memory, and identity. She weaves new cloth of oral tradition, struggling to arrange a comfort zone within the foreign manufactures of suburbia. Hers is the skilled music of a master.
